OK thanks for confirming Jeff. When members visit the archive, how do they capture the information they turn up - photo copy, scan or take pics with the phone?
Thanks for the links Peter, it feels like Christmas has come early I've been hunting for those site plans all over - the key to everything really. Lovely and clear too.
I wonder if English Heritage or the American Air Museum can supply really high definition aerial images on request?
Appreciate the help, I'd have missed those plans without the search working.
Dave
Did you download the aerial images from the American Air Museum as they are mostly quite good quality? Historic England can supply higher resolution scans but the difference in quality or clarity depends on the original. I only tend to go for higher quality if the photo covers a large area i.e. taken from high level.
You can request high resolution copies via email to the address below, quoting the frame reference on the aerial photograph but I suggest you check first by quoting the source as the American Air Museum and get an idea of the quality of the resulting scan and more importantly the price.
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I have spent over £1,000 on aerial photos, probably more and many don't show what I'm looking for but then again my speciality is bombing ranges and a 10 foot square building is not easy to spot
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Historic England will also have have records of sorties flown until relatively recently. I know you will want primarily WW2 stuff, but good, clear 1970's coverage can be valuable to you also. Ask them for a cover search (it helps greatly if you attach a map with areas highlighted, they are not airfield buffs, particularly if you want distant living sites as well) you will have to wait a fortnight until you receive a pdf, then wait about the same again once you have made your selection for the prints. You are buying a pig-in-a-poke though. Some photocopies will miss what you want (just!) others will have clouds and cloud shadows obscuring detail but that is just one of those things. Prices for sufficient photocopies to cover a WW2 bomber airfield (about a square mile or so) will be around £35-£40.
OK thanks for confirming Jeff. When members visit the archive, how do they capture the information they turn up - photo copy, scan or take pics with the phone?
Dave
Dave, It depends on what you are looking for. It is much like other research centres.
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Glad to have joined you as a full member now. The member only area is a great resource and I've already found some useful material thanks.
As I mentioned, I'm studying Ridgewell in detail and as part of that I'm constructing CAD models of the various buildings in Solidworks. Obviously the archive is going to be very useful to me in this respect but I don't want to become a pest to the admin team. Can you advise on the best way to approach requests for information please?
Also, could you give me an idea of the chances of finding drawings that are not on that list please? Does the archive contain lots of drawings that haven't been indexed yet and might be turned up by an archive visit or are the chances slim? I'm happy to contribute financially (and possibly in terms of on-site time) to a scanning project. Do you have wish lists for drawings that are located and scanned in batches perhaps? So many questions, sorry!
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