Local Studies Resources Packs

This pack will be of interest to anyone researching their local area.  Local Studies Resource Pack 

Whether you are looking at urban regeneration or local field systems, wartime features or hillforts we can provide aerial photographs of anywhere in England.

The photographs are copied from the National Monuments Record's collection of aerial photographs.  These are mostly black and white vertical photographs taken between 1945 and 1985.  Some examples are shown below.  In addition we will supply information from our heritage database on the archaeology and listed buildings in your area.

Each pack includes:

• 3 aerial photographs
• an index of the listed buildings in your parish
• full listings from our heritage database on the archaeology in your area.

Each pack costs £15 including VAT.  Please do not send any money with your order - we will invoice you.

To order your pack please write to us at

NMR Enquiry and Research Services (LSRP offer)
English Heritage
Kemble Drive
Swindon
SN2 2GZ

We will need your postal address and details of the site you would like the pack based on. 

Ideally we would also like a six figure Ordnance Survey grid reference or a photocopy of a map with the centre point of your site marked.  But if you can not do this please just give us as much information as you can.  Please include your telephone number so we can give you a call if we have problems finding it.

or email us at nmrinfo@english-heritage.org.uk

If you have any questions please give us a call on 01793 414600.

Some example air photographs:

All of the photographs are of Rustington in West Sussex.  

   Rustington,  dated 1946.  English Heritage (NMR) RAF photography 

The 1946 photograph shows some post war building in progress - new roads show up paler.  However, there is still a lot of open space in the West (left) side.  Remains of wartime defences can just be seen along the coast.

Rustington Convalescent Home, designed by the architect Frederick Wheeler, is surrounded by open space to the south of the boating lake.  During the war this building was requistioned.

 

 

 

 Rustington taken in 1969 © Crown copyright. Ordnance Survey By 1969 the post war housing had been completed.  Many of the old houses have been replaced as well.  Along the sea front modern flats have replaced older buildings.

Many of the open spaces within the town have been infilled and the factory building near the coast has been replaced with housing.

 

 

 

Air photograph of Rustington, West Sussex, taken in 1971 © Reserved

Building work has started on the land next to the  convalescent home.  During the 1970s the home was refurbished and is still run as a home today.

This photo shows new housing development encroaching onto the open fields in the west.  This development has continued and today the open space between Rustington and Littlehampton has disappeared.