BRITAIN FROM ABOVETHE AEROFILMS PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION 1919-1953

Local Study Group South

FA Cup Final, Wembley Stadium (Empire Stadium), Wembley Park, London, 27 April 1935

Great Western Railway Works, Swindon, May 1920

St Paul's Cathedral, London, March 1921

The Corporation flats, Collyhurst, Manchester, 4 June 1939

Flooding at Jaywick Sands, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, 2 February 1953

Hitchin Gasometer, North Herefordshire, 2 February 1949

The Pier and White Rock Pavilion, Hastings, East Sussex, 25 May 1931

Sandford Park Lido, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 31 May 1947

Construction of the main runway at Bristol Filton Airport, Gloucestershire, 10 April 1947

Derby Day traffic jam, Fir Tree Road, Banstead, Surrey, 23 June 1923

£246,750

in 2007

Key aims of the project are:

• A preservation programme to conserve, digitise and catalogue 95,000 negatives

• Free online access to digital images via a dedicated website

• Virtual volunteering and outreach activities focused around the historic images

• A programme of exhibitions to celebrate the project and promote the Collection

• A publication telling the Aerofilms story to tie in with the exhibitions programme.

Britain from Above: The Aerofilms Photographic Collection 1919 to 1953

Britain from Above : CONSERVATION

• A preservation programme to conserve, digitise and catalogue 95,000 negatives

Britain from Above : DIGITISATION

BEFORE AFTER

• A preservation programme to conserve, digitise and catalogue 95,000 negatives

Britain from Above : CATALOGUING

• A preservation programme to conserve, digitise and catalogue 95,000 negatives

Britain from Above : ACTIVITIES

• Virtual volunteering and outreach activities focussed around the historic images

• A programme of exhibitions to celebrate the project and promote the Collection

• A publication telling the Aerofilms story to tie in with the exhibitions programme.

Britain from Above : COMMUNITY PROJECTS

Britain from Above : COMMUNITY PROJECTS

Britain from Above : COMMUNITY PROJECTS

Longpark Pottery Works, Kilmarnock, 1935

Britain from Above : EXHIBITIONS

Britain from Above : EXHIBITIONS

St James's Park and Whitehall, Westminster, from the south-west, 1921

St James's Park and Whitehall, Westminster, from the south-west, 1921

Farming land, unidentified location, 11 August 1947

For general enquiries about the project, or to join our mailing list:

aerofilms@english-heritage.org.uk

Beata BradfordBritain from Above Activity Team Leader

beata.bradford@english-heritage.org.uk

BRITAIN FROM ABOVETHE AEROFILMS PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION 1919-1953