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Aerial pics of the UK going back to 1945, more in The Guardian:
Linky:
http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/landscapehistories/1
Very interested in this although website is extremely slow.
Thank you Cap'n.
De nada! This sort of stuff is right up my alley. I love waking up on a flight, looking out of the window and trying to work out where we're overhead.
It would be jolly fascinating, if the website wasn't so terrible!
However, it makes me miserable to see how built up places have got over time, so i'm glad I can't browse 😉
I guess the site got DDoSed?
There's also the historicengland / britainfromabove site(s)...
https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/map?country=global&zoom=0#0,262466,609599
Google Earth has had historical imagery for a while.
Atlas of hill forts with loads of info, little bit addicted to this:
https://hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk/
I waste hours on Canmore
<span style="font-weight: 400;"> https://canmore.org.uk/map/about</span>
Has all the Scotish historic sites, overlays of old OS maps - and if you zoom in the level of current OS mapping is superb. You can even see my shed!
The Kent website has a map and you can choose aerial pictures from 1946.
It is fascinating.
I love this sort of stuff. I suspect, once I've played with all those links, I'm about to lose several hours of time...
Joshvegas - that's good!
This popped up on Flipboard this morning, and it was very slow! I guess the site just couldn’t cope with the sudden flood of interest.
As above, a DDoS, but not an intentional malicious one.
This appears to be the direct link to the archive:
https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
NLS maps are brilliant, I can see my aunts house getting built in 1948 with a different street layout to today. Lots of old railways that you can still explore.
I’ve just found a photo of Chippenham, taken in 1950, and I can actually see my old home!
https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com/location/fm21/
Yewstock Crescent shows really clearly, with Hardenhuish Avenue pointing directly towards the semi-detached council houses in Downing Street where I grew up!
When I was a kid, the town had a population of roughly 19,000, it’s now around 45,000!