Historic Aerial Photo Resources

45 squadron at Cranwell have just received a load of WWi aerial photos from Stafford, taken by the squadron

www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/1-000-World-W...51-detail/story.html

like from the Lincolnshire echo...


I think Tony Hall is a user on here?

I should have said, they plan to put it on line.....

WOW!

There are some cracking photos amongst that lot, including a colour photo of a Barracuda with a red headed torpedo (or are they all Whiteheads:))

Many of them look like shots taken for magazines like Life or one of the other pictorials. Some I recognise but most I don't. There is a mix of locations with UK, Europe. Med, North Africa, Canada, USA, South Africa, India, Malta and many others. I haven't got to the end yet but no bombing ranges yet Althought there was a yellow Battle towing a drogue (Canada, US or SA?)

PETERTHEEATER wrote:

I tried to view last evening from my tablet but can't update it with a suitable player.

You can look at the albums directly with this link

www.flickr.com/photos/8270787%40N07/sets/72157605269786717

Assuming your tablet is android and so does not support the JavaScript the slideshow uses

Kevin

Just been browsing the NCAP site and I noticed another batch of aerial photos have been added and this lot seems to be mainly Oxfordshire. There is some good coverage of some parts dating to 1963 and 1969 (Abingdon, Benson, Chalgrove and more)

For my part (Bombing ranges) Benson shows the remains of the airfield bombing range direction arrow, but no target. Odstone show the soil mark of the old target in both 1963 and 1969 and the arrow in 1969 only. Warpsgrove shows the triangular target as a fading soil mark in 1963.