Aerial Views Gallery

Phoenix Tower, Chester 20755_010

PHOENIX TOWER, CHESTER CITY WALLS. Aerial view. Lying on, or close to the location of the corner tower of the Roman fortress, Phoenix Tower is a much-restored medieval construction, one of a number of projecting defensive towers. Originally Newton Tower it got its new name from the crest of one of Chester's Guilds which occupied it in the 17th century. In 1645, during the English Civil War, King Charles I used the tower as a look-out during the Battle of Rowton Heath during his failed attempt to relieve the siege of Chester by Parliamentarian forces

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Birkenhead in 1920 EPW004029

BIRKENHEAD, Merseyside, August 1920. Aerial view. Prominent in the foreground are Queens Buildings with St James Church on its roundabout and Corporation Street. On the West Float of Wallasey Pool two Graving docks can be seen (beneath the aircraft wing) adjacent to Brassey's Canada Iron Works (where materials and rolling stock for Canada's Grand Trunk Railway were manufactured in the 1850s and 1860s) and the huge flour mills (including Ocean Flour Mills), which in the 1920s were milling more grain than anywhere else in Europe. The East Float, Mersey and Liverpool's Three Graces can be made out in the distance. Aerofilms Collection (see Links)

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Liverpool Pierhead 1964 EAW133857

PIER HEAD, Liverpool. Aerial photograph of the Prince's Dock and Prince's Landing Stage, with the Three Graces beyond in July 1964. This Landing Stage, adjoining Prince's Parade, was used by the transatlantic liner service before it was scrapped in 1973. The adjoining George's Landing Stage remains and is still used by the Mersey Ferry. Gerry & The Pacemakers had a hit with Ferry Cross the Mersey in 1964. Aerofilms Collection (see Links)

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