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Saturday, 17 March 2012 18:36I've managed to spend half of this afternoon looking through aerial photographs on the Ashmolean Museum website. They have a collection of photos taken in the 1930's by Major George Allen who one of the first people in the county to own an aeroplane and he went off taking photos of archaeological sites, towns etc. Lots of pictures of crop marks, which get a bit boring after a while, and places I'm not familar with but there are some places I am familar with, even if they've changed somewhat.
[You'll need to copy and paste these complete URLs]
http://www.ashmolean.org/ash/objects/makedetail.php?pmu=422&mu=423>y=brow&sec=&dtn=20&sfn=County,Site name,Accession Number(s)&cpa=44&rpos=866
[If you click on the photo it comes up a bit bigger]
Showing the floods we had back in July 2007 are nothing new. This photo is looking south, of the Thames and Evenlode valleys in flood. The crossroads just below and left of the middle of the photo is where the A40 crosses the old Eynsham to Cassington road and the higher ground in the upper left of the photo is the western edge of Wytham hill. Eynsham itself is off the right side of the photo.
Since the collection of photos were taken around the time the 'Northern Bypass' for Oxford was built there are several of this end of the new road.
http://www.ashmolean.org/ash/objects/makedetail.php?pmu=422&mu=423>y=brow&sec=&dtn=20&sfn=County,Site name,Accession Number(s)&cpa=56&rpos=1105
Looking east with the A40 snaking off into the distance. The dark bits at the top right are the woods on Wytham hill. The road junction at the bottom of the photo is where Cuckoo Lane (going off to the left, towards Freeland and North Leigh) joins the old road to Oxford, which is the road going off to the right which became Old Witney Road. About a third of the way up from the bottom on the very right of the photo is a line of houses on Witney Road but at that stage the road hadn't been continued straight on to join the A40. The whole chunk of land to the right of the A40 up to about half way up the photo (where the eastern bypass for Eynsham now is) was already starting to be being built on.
I can workout where I live on the photo quite easily as the fields on the left (north) side of the road still are the same shapes and the line of the lower part of Spareacre Lane is there (the lane with a hedgerow curving out from the village, being cut across by the A40 then continues on to the north of the A40). I love old photos that I can relate too. :)
[You'll need to copy and paste these complete URLs]
http://www.ashmolean.org/ash/objects/makedetail.php?pmu=422&mu=423>y=brow&sec=&dtn=20&sfn=County,Site name,Accession Number(s)&cpa=44&rpos=866
[If you click on the photo it comes up a bit bigger]
Showing the floods we had back in July 2007 are nothing new. This photo is looking south, of the Thames and Evenlode valleys in flood. The crossroads just below and left of the middle of the photo is where the A40 crosses the old Eynsham to Cassington road and the higher ground in the upper left of the photo is the western edge of Wytham hill. Eynsham itself is off the right side of the photo.
Since the collection of photos were taken around the time the 'Northern Bypass' for Oxford was built there are several of this end of the new road.
http://www.ashmolean.org/ash/objects/makedetail.php?pmu=422&mu=423>y=brow&sec=&dtn=20&sfn=County,Site name,Accession Number(s)&cpa=56&rpos=1105
Looking east with the A40 snaking off into the distance. The dark bits at the top right are the woods on Wytham hill. The road junction at the bottom of the photo is where Cuckoo Lane (going off to the left, towards Freeland and North Leigh) joins the old road to Oxford, which is the road going off to the right which became Old Witney Road. About a third of the way up from the bottom on the very right of the photo is a line of houses on Witney Road but at that stage the road hadn't been continued straight on to join the A40. The whole chunk of land to the right of the A40 up to about half way up the photo (where the eastern bypass for Eynsham now is) was already starting to be being built on.
I can workout where I live on the photo quite easily as the fields on the left (north) side of the road still are the same shapes and the line of the lower part of Spareacre Lane is there (the lane with a hedgerow curving out from the village, being cut across by the A40 then continues on to the north of the A40). I love old photos that I can relate too. :)
