What a great story. At the risk of appearing like a fruitcake I have had a couple of similar experiences whereby buildings have changed and appeared different almost like someone has overlaid a kind of transparent image on them. They look the same but some elements are different. It has happened in Portland Place in London where the road suddenly became wider and the buildings though similar had different fronts. There were no cars just a lone horse and carriage and then it was back to the present day chaos of traffic turning into Oxford Circus. A pub in Hampstead called The Flask was another place it occurred (no I hadn't had that much to drink!) My view of the courtyard went misty and a dray horse and cart appeared with large barrels of beer and then it was gone again. One of my favourite stories about what I call 'time slips' is when I encountered a man from another time: I was in central London waiting at a bus stop, people were scattered all over the pavement, leaning against walls and standing in the road. A well dressed man appeared in a heavy dark suit, bowler hat, rolled umbrella and briefcase. I noticed him as he seemed a little over dressed in the heat wave we were having at the time and he seemed very 1950s in style. He strode up to the bus stop, stood next to me, and examined the timetable oblivious to the crowd around him. He wore several Masonic badges and a sash; again I thought it peculiar daywear for Oxford Street, but each to their own. I was looking at his badges as I am interested in the history of Freemasonry and was about to speak to him when a bus appeared. The crowd moved forward but the gentlemen remained exactly where he was. I turned back to ask if he needed directions as he didn't appear to be following us and he had vanished into thin air! I then realised he hadn't actually been there at all, there was no bus timetable for him to study, just adverts and he was dressed for another time period as that's exactly where he had come from. I had just witnessed a dead Mason who had somehow popped in to....I'm not sure exactly what, but he was an amazing sight and well worth missing the bus for!
