We run with the Great West Road. Priestley and Morton again. Here are the subjects of their complaint britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw037... /33 #Aerofilms
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And to understand the aerial photograph that Kate sketched in the zine, you need to take a look at this beauty by #Aerofilms from @HE_Archive
https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EPW054325
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I had wanted to end this thread with @FakenhamMuseum but unfortunately the gas works is just off the edge of the surviving #Aerofilms photos of the town. However, that won’t stop you visiting them. Appendix to the main thread now follows >
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It's not all big urban centres. #Aerofilms took plenty of photos of small, local, gas works like this one at Caerleon. Check out the people in the garden looking at the aircraft, and the tent!
https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/WPW058578
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A different type of gas holder at the gas works in Dublin, in 1933. Typical #Aerofilms image, close up over the site.
https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/XPW043442
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April 1921 and we are over Hendon, where #Aerofilms were based, at Brent gas works. Includes the rail tracks with wagons - are they bringing fuel in or taking waste out? Or both? Excellent overall layout, and nice allotments to the left of the...
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A month later and #Aerofilms are over Reading, which looks far more industrial than it does today. Looks like there's more gas in the holders here than on that day at Portslade! Nice to see the canal and the railway either side of the...
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We begin with what is probably the earliest #Aerofilms photo to clearly includes a gas works; the beach-side works at Portslade-by-Sea, April 1920. The firm had been operating for only a year following the re-commencement of public flying in May...
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OK let's do this, also cc'ing @BethT1965 @JamesODavies and @RuralModernism
A _small_ selection of aerial photographs including gas works, taken by #Aerofilms and available at https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en (just type 'gas' in the search box to make a start).
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Ok who wants an #Aerofilms thread via @HE_Archive all about gasworks?
cc @LadyLiminal1 @Grove_digger @IHSOengland @AIndustrialArch @MartynBarber2
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And don't misunderstand me, there are plenty of sites in Wales and Scotland that they photographed too! But I've got to go off for a meeting now, so enjoy exploring #Aerofilms images at https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en
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There are really lovely, handsome, small works photographed by #Aerofilms like the Hulton Steel Works in Bolton (13 May 1922).
https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EPW007781
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I think the earliest surviving #Aerofilms images of an iron/steel works are at Barrow in Furness.
https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EPW004059
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A few days later on 20 February 1948 #Aerofilms were over-flying Walsall B Power Station and taking a look into this cooling tower.
https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW013443
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And #Aerofilms came back on 25 July 1950 for more. This must have been quite a big commission for them to over-fly the works.
https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW031177
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And then on 5 April 1950 things start to get real dicey! THis daring aerial photography is typical #Aerofilms. I can't tell you how dangerous this is.
https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW028564
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Prompted by @Steelworlds #SWOS20 twitter conference and an expression of interest from @Rebecca52731232 😀 here is a short thread illustrating some of the steely #Aerofilms Collection images from @HE_Archive. (I'll only tweet as many images as I can manage in my lunch-break).
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Well this certainly kept my mind off things. I hope it did for you too. I'll catch up with you all after I've slept. Please feel free to ask me any questions you have about #Aerofilms, their air photos, the work we did to get this lot online, the activities and exhibitions...
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There is so much more that I could share with you from the #Aerofilms Collection. HMS Nelson and Rodney being decommissioned at Inverkeithing. Oh what the heck here they are.
This is truly a great archive, but we've got just over 10% of it...
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https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/XPW007027
Don't even get me started on hunting for ex-WWI hospitals... Spot the ones in this shot. Picardy. Oh #Aerofilms, what did your pilots think about flying over here in the 1920s?
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https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW007032
Building the Brabazon Hangar (did I mention that #Aerofilms behaved quite dangerously in the air?)
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https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EPW000060B
So #Aerofilms went big on piers. Here are a few.
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OK you might have to mute me because I've got the bit between my teeth now.
Or, stay and enjoy a personal guided tour of random lovely bits of the #Aerofilms Collection, led by the person who's looked at most of the 1.2million images in the archive.
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https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/SPW045861
Time for some industry, this is an area in which #Aerofilms excels.
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https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EPW021572
You should explore the absolutely extraordinary RAF Pageant photos in the #Aerofilms collection.
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https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EPW000345
#Aerofilms regularly broke Air Navigation Regulations and the Official Secrets Act. Here's an example (Dover Castle was at the centre of a 3 mile flight exclusion zone at the time this photo was taken).
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https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EPW015017
Who doesn't like a brand new sewage works? AN #Aerofilms staple.
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https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EPW000001
#Aerofilms first ever oblique aerial photo, May 1919 (they spent the previous months taking portrait photos of joy-ride customers in Claude Graham-White's aircraft at the London Aerodrome, Hendon). Is this 6/? I've lost count, going...
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