Geomapping: Norfolk Deserted Villages

Georeferencing

A good few years ago Cameron Self and I were discussing DMVs or Deserted medieval Villages on Flickr, we’d both been to a few too take photos, thus began an obsession with them, not just the Medieval ones, actually all of them. There’s an oddly romantic...

Trench Ghosts part 5 – The Somme – High Wood and Courcelette

Georeferencing, Rephotography

A couple of ones that nearly got away, I forgot I’d done the High Wood one until a few minutes ago when someone asked so this makes sense. The Courcelette one is appropriate for today (15th September 1916/2016) High Wood © Nick Stone 2016 IWM/Google, High Wood...

V2 aerial ghosts

Georeferencing

Vergeltungswaffe 2, The Retribution Weapon. A less than charming name for nasty things. The Germans were way ahead of us with rocket and jet technology, in fact they were way just ahead of us with most technology for most of the war. I remember marvelling at the...

Trench Ghosts part 4

Georeferencing, Rephotography, The Great War

Langemark A few trench ghosts I did last week then got distracted and forgot about. One of Langemark and one of the Sugarloaf salient at Fromelles. The Langemark rephoto leaps out straight away. It’s also familiar to anyone that’s ever visited the German...

Aerial ghosts: Messines updated

Georeferencing, The Great War

I had a very interesting email today from Gil Bossuyt of frontaaltours.com which has prompted this post. Gil has been looking at the image I originally colourised in this piece. It goes thus: “I went searching on trench maps to recognize some road structures,...

WW1: Aerial Trench Ghosts Part 3 – Lens

Georeferencing, Rephotography, The Great War

Someone asked if I’d done any Loos aerials, I hadn’t, it’s not an area I’m hugely familiar with, it does tend to get forgotten in between all the noise about the Battle of the Somme and The Ypres Salient. There’s plenty of front in...

Ghost Airfields of WW2: Part 4

Georeferencing

It’s raining and blowy, what better weather on a bank holiday for getting the scissors and glue out and sticking things together. So here’s a few more; RAF Old Buckenham, RAF North Pickenham and RAF Wendling. It’s all good fun this isn’t it,...

Ghost Airfields of WW2: Part 3

Georeferencing

It’s been a while. We drove around RAF Oulton today on our way away from the huge pile of humanity trying to take dogs, bikes, jetpacks and assorted noise with them to Blickling Hall. We went to Heydon, because a lot of people don’t and we wanted to...

No place like home: Viking Norfolk

Georeferencing

The landscape reveals many things about our past. You can stand in the middle of the city entirely enveloped in the past; the Norman cathedral and Castle, medieval churches and Tudor buildings, the remnants of war and peace, people remembered in plaques. To cast a net...

Norwich: “Brightest shining of the city” – part 1

Georeferencing, Hidden history

We live here. It is easy to forget where Norwich comes from, we take our surroundings for granted; a city that has grown from virtually nothing over the last 1200 years. A scattering of people living on  gravel terraces above a bend in a river in wooden houses, living...

Mapping the Grim

Black Dog Tales, Georeferencing

  This was part of the original intent of the Public Archaeology project (for PA2015) and for me, because data is poetry and maps are fine prose. Due to the nature of my working life; the fact that I’m a bit of a butterfly/battering ram when it comes to how...

Ghosts: London blitz aerial maps

Georeferencing, Rephotography, The Blitz

An iconic image from one German Heinkel III bomber showing another over Rotherhithe, the Surrey Commercial and West India Docks and Isle of Dogs to the right. Credit original: Southwark Library collection. 1940. CC Fair Use Wikipedia. Two German Dornier 17 bombers fly...