Your City From The Air!

[Delirium]

Originally Posted by Tony Sebo

is that Manchester's proposed World Heritage site?

Part of what you just typed was correct!

Originally Posted by Illtonkso

Actually, is this in Portsmouth? We have one like this in Gosport. Not sure if our one has a smaller house in it like this though

no, it is by the coast though, im pretty sure i've made it easier as to where these two places are now...

[crusty_bint]

Liverpool and Brighton?

[ill tonkso]

This is a fun pic.

[Boards]

Blackpool.

[up the tigers]

Hull 1920s

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1999

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2007 (plus it shows where all the developments are)



Old Town and Fruit Market 1970



I'm not sure if this is before or after the war as this part of Hull suffered surprisingly little damage

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I'm hoping it was pre-war as a huge swathe was wiped away in the 70s for a new dual carriageway

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Finally an aerial photo showing bomb damage immediately after the war

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[Delirium]

I'm going to stop the ever geeky GTC and reveal em.

The red brick is in Bath


This be Weston Super Mare


well, they surprised me

[Telfordboy]

I'm surprised that is Bath I thought they only had that regency stuff going on. I knew that the other one was in the South West though

[yoshef]

Originally Posted by crusty_bint

There was a time, not too long ago, when Glasgow was the mostly densely populated place on earth after London and Paris

nice old pics crusty, Glasgow's grid plan looks even better in ye olde black & white!

don't forget liverpool too

In 1841, when the average population density for England and Wales was 275 per square mile.
The density in Little Ireland was calculated to be equivalent to 657,963 per square mile.
That is the same as putting one and a half times the entire 2002 population of Liverpool into one square mile.

[yoshef]

lovely pics are those barges or ships?

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[sloyne]

Originally Posted by yoshef

are those barges or ships?

Looks like three ships, one deep sea, two coasters and the rest are barges.

[mikey23]

Two from Colmore Plaza website:

[Delirium]

Those Hull pics, fascinating and depressing in equal measure

[up the tigers]

Originally Posted by yoshef

lovely pics are those barges or ships?

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That dock was filled in in the 30s to form Queens Gardens (that park in the middle of the 2007 photo). The other Dock, Princes Dock, which joined on to it had a shopping centre built over it in the late 80s.

[yoshef]

Originally Posted by up the tigers

That dock was filled in in the 30s to form Queens Gardens (that park in the middle of the 2007 photo). The other Dock, Princes Dock, which joined on to it had a shopping centre built over it in the late 80s.

ah yeah i see now. Shame that they've been filled in though, even for a nice garden.

[crusty_bint]

Excellent pics! I never understood why there was such a rush to fill in all the docks, London seems to have retained a lot

Glasgow, 1950something. Queens Docks to the left is now the SECC, Princes Docks to the right is now Pacific Quay (Science Centre, BBC etc)

[Delirium]

The council infamously tried to completely fill in Bristol's floating harbour (I think one of the ideas was to then turn it into a dual carriageway) *shudders*

[Tony Sebo]

Originally Posted by Helium

Part of what you just typed was correct!



no, it is by the coast though, im pretty sure i've made it easier as to where these two places are now...

excellent finds. Looking at the Bath one now there are some obvious clues, but I wouldn't have picked up on them!

[ruben.briosa]

Originally Posted by DaiB

Beautiful! We should experiment with terracotta roof tiles in this country.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by jrb

That's what I love about Mediterranean cities and towns. Tree lined boulevards and squares. A place to rest with or without a drink and a chance to escape from the midday sun and heat. Beautiful.

It’s true

Originally Posted by crusty_bint

What a beautiful city. Never heard of the place, but it looks beautiful

Coimbra have one of the oldest universities of the world.. is the third most important city in Portugal and 4th in population (220.000 inhabitants of present population and 150.000 officially).
In Euro 2004, was in the Coimbra stadium that was the England-Switzerland

[El_Greco]

Originally Posted by crusty_bint

London seems to have retained a lot

London filled in many of its docks too.

London Docks in 1882 (note King George V Dock in Royal Docks area had not yet been built.) :



London Docks - (Western Dock Tobacco Dock Eastern Dock Wapping Basin) filled in.
Surrey Commercial Docks - (Globe Pond Levander Dock Acorn Pond Stave Dock Russia Dock Albion Dock Centre Pond Quebec Pond Canada Pond Lady Dock Norway Dock Commercial Basin Wet Dock Surrey Canal) filled in.
West India Docks - (Import Dock Export Dock South Dock) partialy filled in.
East India Docks - (Import Dock Export Dock) - filled in.
Woolwich Dockyard - filled in.

[crusty_bint]

Oh yeah, I see what you mean! Still retained a comparatively large amount though. I suppose that could go some way to explaining why docks in other cities were so readily, even hurriedly, filled in. Stunning map btw! You should post it on the Lost London thread (if you haven't already)
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