Google Earth thread!

Great list MM, thanks for putting it up.

Long Marston Airfield is in Warwickshire, the other one in Bucks is Chedington.

Stanton and Hepworth in Suffolk, do you mean RAF Shepherds Grove - just north of walshm le willows?

Weston Green, could that be Wratting common?

I am not looking at GE, just going by memory here!

Great Ashfield would also be the correct name.

Thanks Rich, and 'Wardle' is Calveley! I've adjusted the list.

Honington and Bury St Edmunds both show up well, as do the bomb dump at Barnham and the FFD at Little Heath.

andrewayers;55528 wrote:

great picture of the crater at metfield bomb dump

It looks as though they added a fifth 200 ton dump to the east of the damaged one.

Lots of munitions stored in the open at Lord's Bridge.

... and bet you were unaware that Sizewell had a nuclear power station in 1945.

Graham

mawganmad;56812 wrote:

Here's a list of airfields that are clearly visible in the 1940s images, this was after an hour or so looking about.

I was staggered to find two Long Marstons, but I think the one that you can see is called Cheddington?

Nice list, I have to admit I look almost every day for extended coverage for 1945 (or 46 or what ever year it really is!)

Alconbury
Caxton Gibbet
Feltwell
Sibson

Connington should probably be listed as Glatton?

And I've not even checked out the north east yet!
My partners mothers house isn't built but you can see prepartion underway, it was completed in '46 so some of the coverage does appear to be '45-'46.
To be fair on Google this is a tremendous idea and effort, they probably asked various archives for circa '45 pictures and what we see is what they got.

mawganmad;57910 wrote:

To be fair on Google this is a tremendous idea and effort, they probably asked various archives for circa '45 pictures and what we see is what they got.

However, as I've stated before, if it's c.1945, why does it say 'December 1945'?

I notice that 'Dec 1953' appears in some areas, but it's identical to the 'Dec 1945'. Also '1943' appears occasionally - except there's nothing there.

Sorry guys, but as a software engineer I'd expect to be slated having released something like this.

Graham

We are a very choosy crowd (you maybe more so) Carnabus, but the ordinary folk that I have demonstrated this function to have been gobsmacked and love it, especially my partners mother!
I suggest that Google have simply picked the last month of the year as a date to use as the datum point, circa sounds odd (some don't even know the word!).

Carnaby, take a look at the original in-line Type C bomb stores at Kinloss but no sign of the later bomb store built in the north so I assume that was added in 1943.

PETERTHEEATER;57954 wrote:

Carnaby, take a look at the original in-line Type C bomb stores at Kinloss but no sign of the later bomb store built in the north so I assume that was added in 1943.

Sorry Peter, I'm being stupid, or missing something here. I can only go back to 2004.

Graham