Images Dated 2011 August

Swindon and GWR Works EPW059047

SWINDON, Wiltshire. The Great Western Railway Works, Swindon station and the workers village (Swindon New Town), looking west. Photographed in August 1938. Aerofilms Collection (see Links)

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Aerial, Factory, Industrial, Railway, Urban

St Edmunds Abbey EPW001753

BURY ST EDMUNDS, Suffolk. Aerial view of the town, abbey remains and St Edmundsbury Cathedral. The Cathedral was formerly the Church of St James within the abbey precinct. Adjoining it is the Norman Gate (1120-48) which lead from the town into the abbey interior. Abbeygate, to the right, lead onto the Great Court - the public area in front of the abbey complex. It was rebuilt after 1327 when rioting destroyed the original gate. Photographed in 1920. Aerofilms Collection (see Links)

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Vickers aircraft EPW001728

Aerial view of what appears to be a Vickers Vimy Commercial aircraft in flight (with the unusual registration 17-X on the tail fin). The same basic airframe was used for the Vickers Vernon, adopted by the RAF as a cargo aircraft between 1921 and 1927. Photographed here in 1920, around the time of the first aerial Pageant at Hendon (July 3rd 1920). Aerofilms Collection (see Links)

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