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Aerial photos can reveal hidden archaeology and sites that are difficult or even impossible to see from the ground. You can explore over 400,000 digitised photos taken from our aerial photo collections of over 6 million photographs preserved in the Historic England Archive.
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Welcome to OldAerialPhotos.com, the home of historical UK aerial photography. Over a million aerial photos from the 40s to the 90s are available to search at the click of a button. Search for your area of interest by Postcode, Street name, City or Grid Reference.
To view the aerial view of the current map location, you need to select an aerial year to display. Click on the aerials button in the top left of the viewer. You should see a list of years pop out to the right. These are the years of aerial coverage that we currently have for the area indicated by center point of the map.
The National Collection of Aerial Photography is one of the largest collections of aerial imagery in the world, containing tens of millions of images featuring historic events and places around the world.
The UK’s largest aerial photography archive, with complete photographic coverage of the British Isles between 1960 and the 1990s. Contact us to find your perfect image.
The Historic England Archive has the earliest surviving aerial images of England. These were taken by the photographer and balloonist Cecil Shadbolt between 1882-1892. This important...
Aerial photographs of Britain from the 1940s to 2009 – dubbed the ‘historical Google Earth’ by Cambridge academics – have been made freely available to everyone on Cambridge University Library’s ground-breaking Digital Library.
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