Pictorial Aerial Photographs around Plymouth-England~Taken from 2,000 feet down to 250 feet (High Quality 6 cm sq. negative/Hasselblad)
DARTMOOR
another "content over style" heritage web page from Steve Johnson`s www.cyberheritage.co.uk
[email protected] - use these images freely - all taken by me and given to Public Domain to aid research, schools, and local history ~ all taken during 1980-1982 ~ a 100 MB downloadable content site ~ maximum size of image 350k jpeg
Dartmoor and the areas around Princetown, Two Bridges, Postbridge, Powder Mills - Public Footpath erosion at Hay Tor, Periglaciation at Cox Tor, the China Clay workings at Lee Moor, Burrator Reservoir
Burrator Reservoir and again, Manor House Hotel - Moretonhampstead, Lydford and again, Postbridge......1.....2.....3.......4., Two Bridges....1......2......3......4......5, Powder Mills - an old disused gunpowder mill and proofing house, Narrator Brook, Haytor and again and once more(note erosion caused by thousands of pairs of visitors feet!!), Princetown Prison, the beautiful lofty Church surmounting volcanic Brent Tor, one of the many old Leats on Dartmoor
Periglaciation...granite blocks having been carried and moved along by glacier action at Cox Tor
The Narrator Brook feeds into Burrator Reservoir
near Dartmoor: Gawton disused tin and copper mine near Bere Alston, old mine spoil tips and deserted workings in the Tamar Valley, a contractor`s "yard", Hemerdon village and the old Tungsten mine at Hemerdon Ball
Around and about the mine workings of the Tamar Valley area and the scars on the landscape they leave behind
Around Lee Moor with the China Clay workings of English China Clays. An area very scarred by years of China Clay extraction on a very big scale. Still in use today, much remains to be seen - such as mica dams (and again,), and yet another, settling tanks, ponds, ..and again...and similar again.....and spoil tips that blot the landscape like an Alpine range - widely spread out......lots of extraction hardware remains to be seen, much is still in use and is well seen from the air, even in this dull view, and here too!!!!
Conservation measures will stop the workings spreading out to envelop close by farmlands and surrounding beautiful countryside...1........2........3..
...and as usual - the "unknowns!"...1.......2......3......4.......5.......6
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Salcombe, Erme and Avon estuaries - and much more - taken on 35mm colour slide and
negative stock from 1975 to 1981~an additional 50MB site
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