A load more were added the next day, still covering the south east and south coast but some interesting ones nonetheless. Most of these were small runs and for some reason there are gaps between some frames suggesting the intervening frame was lost or damaged.
Note: The NCAP website is down this weekend for routine down-Ness stuff. (see date of post as for some reason I can't get a date on my phone).
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The coverage is purely coastal and of reasonable quality for the most part. Although the stated date is 1940 I would not rely on it although it does appear to be earlier than 1944. It shows the ranges at Holy Island, Druridge Bay, Fenham Flats and Hinderwell but misses out Seal Sands as too far inland.
As mentioned I am not sure of the exact dates but one clue is that the Goswick ranges used by Milfield are not present. Also barbed wire runs are obvious in a lot of places which should have been cleared from farm fields very early after VE Day, if not sooner.
If anyone can help date them by area based on know coastal defence works that would be great.
Finally, although this is a great addition the service is a bit slow so leave a bit of time if it covers your patch
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Nice view of Locking camp to the east. Our BD Flight was housed there whilst we did a clearance job at Westonzoyland airfield (1964 ish). They put us in a timber hut in the bottom right hand corner as far away from the Boy Entrants as possible to avoid contaminating the new recruits. At least, that's what the Locking CO told our boss!
My seemingly unquenchable thirst for aerial photographs and the search for them led me to Alamy.com which has a selection of ex Luftwaffe target folder scans and one or two decent aerial photos of airfields. Recently some aerial photos have appeared there that are held by IWM and Historic England and at a reasonable price of £11.99 for a decent scan download. However I have now doubted the source of these as their site also includes scan of airfields that are obviously from the After The Battle books and my be of dubious quality. So the question is, how can they do this?
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I have asked myself the same question of Getty Images which include photographs available on the Imperial War Museum collection and yet to purchase from Getty the costs are prohibitive!
I have asked myself the same question of Getty Images which include photographs available on the Imperial War Museum collection and yet to purchase from Getty the costs are prohibitive!
It might be that the media are used to dealing with Getty and might have accounts with them so there could be less 'paperwork' involved is getting the image through there. Particularly foreign media could quite possibly have never heard of the IWM. I can't see any problem if it is done with the IWM's permission and they get a cut from the fee.
Although only 1500 have so far been released it looks like more will be released at some point. The University's collection of aerial photos has been plotted on an online map for a number of years now with some view-able as thumbnails.
The latest zoomable selection includes quite a lot on Addenbrookes Hosptial and the London Area and almost nothing aviation related with many just missing areas that may be of interes, Stanton Harcourt airfield has a few nice colour obliques from 1948 though.
NCAP have also added about 12,000 new aerial photos to their map, probably UK ones, but I have not been able to find out what area they covered. The don't seem to be publicising new additions as the recent Luftwaffe UK collections have yet to be mentioned. Curious!
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