1940s UK aerial survey
Posted: 13 Dec 2009, 22:51
Apologies if someone has found this before, but you may find this 1940s data from getmapping.com interesting.
http://www2.getmapping.com/Webshop/Web/ ... _placename
London City can clearly be seen still as docks and Hendon of course is there. Strangely, some airfields seem to haev been obscured in the photos. Hatfield and Southampton have been almost completely swapped out to appear as fields!! The photos claim to be between 1940 and 1947 which should show substantial buildings at both of these airfields where none can be seen! Heathrow is pretty complete and so is Weybridge and even one hangar can be seen at Wisley as well as most of Radlett (although the main runway is somewhat shorter).
http://www2.getmapping.com/Webshop/Web/ ... _placename
London City can clearly be seen still as docks and Hendon of course is there. Strangely, some airfields seem to haev been obscured in the photos. Hatfield and Southampton have been almost completely swapped out to appear as fields!! The photos claim to be between 1940 and 1947 which should show substantial buildings at both of these airfields where none can be seen! Heathrow is pretty complete and so is Weybridge and even one hangar can be seen at Wisley as well as most of Radlett (although the main runway is somewhat shorter).