From the LSG Images Study Day at CILIP.

1. BRITAIN FROM ABOVE
THE AEROFILMS PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION 1919-1953
Local Study Group South

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

11. Great Western Railway Works, Swindon, May 1920

12. St Paul's Cathedral, London, March 1921

13. The Corporation flats, Collyhurst, Manchester, 4 June 1939

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

15. Hitchin Gasometer, North Herefordshire, 2 February 1949

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

17. Sandford Park Lido, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 31 May 1947

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

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

21. £246,750
in 2007

22. Britain from Above: The Aerofilms Photographic Collection 1919 to 1953
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.

23. Britain from Above : CONSERVATION
• A preservation programme to conserve, digitise and catalogue 95,000 negatives

26. Britain from Above : DIGITISATION
• A preservation programme to conserve, digitise and catalogue 95,000 negatives
BEFORE AFTER

28. Britain from Above : CATALOGUING
• A preservation programme to conserve, digitise and catalogue 95,000 negatives

29. 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.

30. Britain from Above : COMMUNITY PROJECTS

31. Britain from Above : COMMUNITY PROJECTS

32. Britain from Above : COMMUNITY PROJECTS
Longpark Pottery Works, Kilmarnock, 1935

34. Britain from Above : EXHIBITIONS

35. Britain from Above : EXHIBITIONS

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

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

41. Farming land, unidentified location, 11 August 1947

43. BRITAIN FROM ABOVE
THE AEROFILMS PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION 1919-1953
Beata Bradford
Britain from Above Activity Team Leader
beata.bradford@english-heritage.org.uk
For general enquiries about the project, or to join our mailing
list:
aerofilms@english-heritage.org.uk