London, GB | Formerly of New York, Buenos Aires, Fife, and the Western Cape. | Saoránach d’Éirinn.

Buckham’s Britain

The Daily Telegraph shows us a number of photos taken by Alfred Buckham, an aerial photographer of the 1920s. Buckham was introduced to the art during his time with the aerial reconnaissance branch of the Royal Naval Air Service in the First World War.

The images themselves are composite photographs combining actual aerial views of cities and landmarks throughout Great Britain with views of the aircraft of the day flying through the skies.

As the Telegraph notes, Buckham “eschewed safety devices, saying: ‘I have used a safety belt only once, and then it was thrust upon me. I always stand up to make an exposure and, taking the precaution to tie my right leg to the seat, I am free to move about rapidly'”.

A new book on Buckham, A Vision of Flight: The Aerial Photography of Alfred G. Buckham, has just been written by Celia Ferguson, and is published by The History Press.

This view shows Westminster before the Second World War. A German bomb hit one of the townhouses to the left of the Palace of Westminster’s Victoria Tower and, despite the damage being easily reparable, the government demolished the entire row of Georgian townhouses, leaving the road much wider today.

Windsor

Oxford

St Andrews

Durham

A village

Published at 9:09 pm on Sunday 15 June 2008. Categories: Great Britain Tags: , , , , .
Comments

I like the picture of Oxford, you can clearly see Christchurch college.

— Matthew 1 Feb 2015 7:24 pm
Leave a comment

NAME (required)

EMAIL (required)

WEBSITE (not required)

COMMENT

Home | About | Contact | Paginated Index | Twitter | Facebook | RSS/Atom Feed
andrewcusack.com | © Andrew Cusack 2004-present (Unless otherwise stated)