Historic Aerial Photo Resources

There are some good photos on the map site and I think you can order copies although I wouldn't order obliques for those without thumbnails.

This article popped up for me today, with today as a published date. It is unclear to me how much new material is available from Historic England

Historic England puts aerial photos of nation’s past online
Images of thousands of sites dating from 1919 to the present day made available to view

Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent
@nadiakhomami
Tue 22 Mar 2022 06.00 GMT

Ever wondered what your road or area looked like 50 or 100 years ago? Historic England is launching an aerial photography tool that allows users to explore images of England over the past century.

The bird’s eye views range from second world war defences and nuclear power stations to the remains of neolithic monuments, Roman farmsteads and medieval villages.

More than 400,000 photographs from 1919 to the present day, covering 30% of England, will be available to search and view online for the first time.

Etc
www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/mar/22/...-nations-past-online

Many are already on Britain from Above but the search system on HE's Aerial Photo Explorer is better.


On BBC News

How access to satellite images shifts the view of war

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60762772

This the link to the Web app
historicengland.org.uk/images-books/arch...tions/aerial-photos/

netcompsys wrote:

This article popped up for me today, with today as a published date. It is unclear to me how much new material is available from Historic England

Historic England puts aerial photos of nation’s past online
Images of thousands of sites dating from 1919 to the present day made available to view

Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent
@nadiakhomami
Tue 22 Mar 2022 06.00 GMT

Ever wondered what your road or area looked like 50 or 100 years ago? Historic England is launching an aerial photography tool that allows users to explore images of England over the past century.

The bird’s eye views range from second world war defences and nuclear power stations to the remains of neolithic monuments, Roman farmsteads and medieval villages.

More than 400,000 photographs from 1919 to the present day, covering 30% of England, will be available to search and view online for the first time.

Etc
www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/mar/22/...-nations-past-online

Brilliant, That is what I thought they were releasing when the historic sites map was released. I wonder if the aerial photo part was delayed?
Let's hope they add to it as Scotland and Wales both have reasonable coverage in historic photos.

Now to see which bombing ranges they just miss

A number of ranges are covered and most seem to be frames I already have. Oddly the two Millom range obliques online are the only two I ever ordered from that sortie - are they following me?

Lucky its not a target towing track

I am not sure, but it seems there are images today where there were not yesterday. I don't recall coverage of Otmoor yesterday but there is loads now - all the ones I ordered copies of!

Also noted that there is a an arrow to tab through multiple frame layers when you select the first frame (e.g. 1 of 11) .