{"id":11879,"date":"2024-02-17T10:23:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T10:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=11879"},"modified":"2024-02-19T10:55:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T10:55:27","slug":"local-history-aerial-photos-of-march-creek-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=11879","title":{"rendered":"LOCAL HiSTORY: Aerial Photos of March\/Creek Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"976\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7402-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11877\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7402-1.jpg 750w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7402-1-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">RAF aerial photo of March, poss\u2019 16\/1\/\u201856?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m a member of a FB local history group. Someone posted a link to a national database of aerial photos. I checked out a few of March, to see if I could find our home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly I can\u2019t work out how to download the full scale photo. So both images in this post are screenshots off my iPhone. Hardly ideal! At the top is the full photograph. And below is a zoom in on Creek Rd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"656\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bbb567d1-0e01-433a-b1ac-e5c40bf71dd32024-02-17_10-17-28_000-1-1-656x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11964\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bbb567d1-0e01-433a-b1ac-e5c40bf71dd32024-02-17_10-17-28_000-1-1-656x1024.jpg 656w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bbb567d1-0e01-433a-b1ac-e5c40bf71dd32024-02-17_10-17-28_000-1-1-192x300.jpg 192w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bbb567d1-0e01-433a-b1ac-e5c40bf71dd32024-02-17_10-17-28_000-1-1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Creek Road, with the river at top left.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather confusingly these photos are upside down, in terms of North\/South! I\u2019m going to cross reference these images with Google Earth views, and see if I can pinpoint our place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"632\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/41b52a4d-a4e4-4df0-bb19-66e9ff12a84b2024-02-17_10-24-50_000-1-632x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11966\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/41b52a4d-a4e4-4df0-bb19-66e9ff12a84b2024-02-17_10-24-50_000-1-632x1024.jpg 632w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/41b52a4d-a4e4-4df0-bb19-66e9ff12a84b2024-02-17_10-24-50_000-1-185x300.jpg 185w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/41b52a4d-a4e4-4df0-bb19-66e9ff12a84b2024-02-17_10-24-50_000-1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Here we are on Google Earth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the above pic, from Google Earth, north-south alignment is nearer to correct. I was able to find ours, thanks to it being end of terrace, and next door to a house with a different roof structure\/pattern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7405-1-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11881\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7405-1-576x1024.jpg 576w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7405-1-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_7405-1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">So here we are, on the ol\u2018 photo, c. 1956.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The tennis courts and some other recreational green spaces (middle right, on the above image), behind The Conservative Club &#8211; which abut our back garden &#8211; are in better condition in these old photographs than they are now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The third, or lower section (actually the northernmost!), is quite a neat area in the black and white image, above. Now, however, it\u2019s an overgrown scrubby wilderness. I wonder if it might be returned to a nicer state, for the benefit of those, like us, living around it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a member of a FB local history group. Someone posted a link to a national database of aerial photos. I checked out a few of March, to see if I could find our home. Sadly I can\u2019t work out how to download the full scale photo. So both images in this post are screenshots &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=11879\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LOCAL HiSTORY: Aerial Photos of March\/Creek Road&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-35B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11879"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11879"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11968,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11879\/revisions\/11968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}