Old aerial photo of Carpenters Road
This photo is from the Flickr page of Fin Fahey. He is a diligent and quality photographer of the East End.
He says; "Looking east from above Hackney Wick. This is taken from the Greater London Plan 1944 which I just acquired (Crown copyright, so reproducible now after 50+ years). No date is given, though I imagine this shot may date from the 1930s. The legend says: ' Stratford. Road, rail and canal feeding, but also strangling an industrial area.'
Not any more, everything as far as the terraced housing in the background is now part of the Olympics site, and the last industrial vestiges have almost gone. The old housing, meanwhile, has largely been supplanted by the postwar Carpenters Road Estate."
This photo is from: Carpenters Road
Submitted by Martin Slavin on Sat, 08/12/2007 - 14:01.
Carpenters Road aerial photo
Submitted by Charlie (not verified) on Tue, 11/12/2007 - 17:43.
Nice one - that's right where Haha Hadid's Aquatic Centre will go. I wonder what the guys in those factories would have made of it.
You can scroll around in a C. 1945 image of this area here:
http://www.shockymap.com/timemachine/index1.htm
click in the image in the middle
put e15 2dz for postcode on left & submit
select RAF 1943-1954 Aerial Photography on the right.
The whole area you can see to the right is empty on that photo too - right over to where the main stadium is being built - I assumed it must have been bombed and cleared but if this photo is from the 1930s then that can't be so.
The bridge in the foreground is Marshgate Lane - I'm surprised you can't see City Mill River on the right, maybe it's just out of shot
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Dating the aerial photo
Submitted by gmadmin on Mon, 17/12/2007 - 17:39.
I think I can shed a little light on the date of the aerial photo. I believe that the buildings in the bottom right hand corner are the P.O.W Camp for Italian & German P.O.Ws. that existed in Carpenters Road.
This means that the photo could date from c1943. However, the apparent absence of activity and the "open-ness" suggests early post war.
Regards,
Chris
(full name and email supplied)
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i think you will find that
Submitted by JOHN (not verified) on Tue, 18/11/2008 - 01:12.
i think you will find that this photo was taken before the second world war as some of the houses (towards the top of the page}were bombed ,corner of lett rd to blythe road and on to rosher road.
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Barges
What I notice are the barges located below the plume of white smoke alongside the canal.
Martin