Britain From Above

I've spent but about of the forenoon scouring vintage aerial views of the East End of London looking for my house. It isn't easy. Back inwards the solar daytime the East End used to last sum of these huge buildings that the locals called factories. The factories conduct keep straightaway 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 society founded inwards 1919. The society was established to accept photographs of Great Britain from airplanes for surveying in addition to 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 in addition to Historical Monuments of Scotland in addition to The Royal Commission on the Ancient in addition to Historical Monuments of Wales. Since 2007 this partnership has been busy mapping the locations inwards all those historical aerial views of Britain.

The number is Britain from Above. Using Great Britain from Above's interactive map you lot tin search in addition to thought Aerofilms' vintage aerial views of Great Britain yesteryear location. Search the map yesteryear postcode or refer in addition to you lot tin thought all the historical photos of a place captured yesteryear Aerofilms inwards the Twentieth Century. You tin fifty-fifty purchase prints of whatever of the views that your like.