ACProctor 2 Posted May 12, 2008 Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 I don't suppose anyone has any photos of Manning Grove (or even Manning St) and Bloomfield St from the old St Ann's in their albums do they? It seems so many of the smaller streets don't have any photographic record. So sad.... Tony Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stan 386 Posted May 12, 2008 Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 I felt the same way about Elm Grove and the area surrounding(although Blue Bell Hill School remains on `Picture the past),Tony. Best of luck though. Stan. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted May 12, 2008 Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 Have a good look through here , just follow the links (I found one or two that were very interesting including my mums house) http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ACProctor 2 Posted May 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2008 Thanks for the replies folks. I'd already spent some time viewing PicturethePast. It's is very good, although some of the map references are way out (e.g. Sycamore recreation gound, ha!). Unfortunately, I couldn't find any pictures of my strees of interest You just know someone, somewhere, must have photos in their albums that include the same streets as you're looking for. I bet a lot of us wish we'd done a quick photographic project before these places were demolished. In fact, it's a shame the council didn't take a few high-definition aerial pictures before the redevelopments began :-) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ACProctor 2 Posted August 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2008 In fact, it's a shame the council didn't take a few high-definition aerial pictures before the redevelopments began :-) Is someone messing around here? I did a follow-up to this post, quoting the sentence above, and indicating that such photos exist. That post now appears to have been moved under the forum on internet resources under a misspelled title "arial photographs". I can see the relevance to that forum but I would have preferred a copy to be posted rather than the original being moved Here's the original again... Well, it turns out that aerial photographic surveys of the city have taken place on a regular basis. Some of these (e.g. British Geological Survey) are not commerically available. However, English Heritage holds a vast number of aerial photographs from between about 1940 to about 2000. Many of these are direct overhead but some are "oblique" (i.e. from an angle). These can be puchased from: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/.../ConWebDoc.4510 if you have a map grid reference Tony Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted August 3, 2008 Report Share Posted August 3, 2008 Its pretty standard in forums, and called splitting the post. When a poster replies to a topic with a post that deserves its own thread, it can be moved so the new subject can be discussed seperately, and avoids long threads covering many subjects. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ACProctor 2 Posted August 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2008 Its pretty standard in forums, and called splitting the post.When a poster replies to a topic with a post that deserves its own thread, it can be moved so the new subject can be discussed seperately, and avoids long threads covering many subjects. That's true but then you would normally expect a link to the displaced, or edited, post. Sometimes a post taken out of context of the original thread doesn't make that much sense as a starter for a new thread Thanks anyway. At least I know someone read it :smile: Tony Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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