New Britain From Above


I've spent nearly of the morning time scouring vintage aerial views of the East End of London looking for my house. It isn't easy. Back inwards the twenty-four lx minutes menses the East End used to endure amount of these huge buildings that the locals called factories. The factories direct maintain right away all gone. So the East End of today looks hugely unlike from the air than it did lxxx years ago.

The aerial photographs that I've been looking at were all taken yesteryear Aerofilms Ltd. Aerofilms Ltd was a commercial aerial photography companionship founded inwards 1919. The companionship was established to direct maintain photographs of Great Britain from airplanes for surveying together with mapping purposes. One of its clients was the Ordnance Survey, the UK's national mapping agency.

In June 2007 the millions of aerial photographs taken yesteryear Aerofilms were sold to English linguistic communication Heritage inwards partnership amongst The Royal Commission on the Ancient together with Historical Monuments of Scotland together with The Royal Commission on the Ancient together with Historical Monuments of Wales. Since 2007 this partnership has been busy mapping the locations inwards all those historical aerial views of Britain.

The upshot is Britain from Above. Using Great Britain from Above's interactive map you lot tin ship away search together with thought Aerofilms' vintage aerial views of Great Britain yesteryear location. Search the map yesteryear postcode or bring upwardly together with you lot tin ship away thought all the historical photos of a place captured yesteryear Aerofilms inwards the Twentieth Century. You tin ship away fifty-fifty purchase prints of whatever of the views that your like.
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