I’ve been looking at the Kent ALGs on GE, and several are visible in photographs claimed to date to 1940, when I’m fairly sure that construction did not begin until 1942-3.
Is there any way of finding out the real dates – even just to within a year? I can guess with the ALGs, but I’ve another “project” simmering elsewhere that is much harder to guess, and being able to date that cooverage would be very intersting indeed.
Many thanks,
Adrian
By: adrian_gray - 18th January 2017 at 22:52
Sorry, wrong sort of dating. My bad.
Smartypants. Got a grin from me, though!
The other project is actually our house – not there in 1944 (despite the vendors reckoning built in 1939), Google Earth reckons it is there by December 1945 – but see all the caveats here about dates!
Dave, I’m a bit lost by your fake hedge – there are several other parts of that image that look far more fake to me, but most of it looks much better quality than the retouching I’ve seen in period pics.
Adrian
By: daveg4otu - 17th January 2017 at 11:18
I am sure that censoring is a large part of the answer.For example take Tarrant Rushton in Dorset. The ” historical imagery” says 12/1945 but there is no sign of the airfield. If however you look carefully at the image it is quite plain that fences/hedges have been drawn in.
In these to screen shots – the first shows the 1945 image with the outline of the airfield superimpose….the second is a blow up of part of that image and the hedge line that runs diagonally SW to NE is very obviously fake.
By: Beermat - 17th January 2017 at 10:46
Missing airfields are very likely censored. The collection that the National Libraries of Scotland have, which were taken on behalf of the Ordnance Survey inmediately post-war (and which I presume were from the same series as the ‘1946’ set held by Historic England) have had field boundaries, rivers, roads, buildings and trees carefully painted in over airfields.
Google tend to make things up as they go along. I expect ‘1940’ sounded best for wartime images of Kent.
By: bazv - 17th January 2017 at 10:46
Adrian – depending on what/where you are trying to date – one possibility might be Hitlers Holiday Snaps/Adolphs British Holiday Snaps or – online….
http://www.hitlersukpictures.co.uk
I have not looked at the book or website personally and do not know if all images are dated.
Also dotted around the internet are copies of various Luftwaffe/RAF photo recce pics and they are always dated.
rgds baz
By: Beermat - 17th January 2017 at 10:33
Nice one Centurion!
By: Spartabus - 16th January 2017 at 15:49
Sorry, wrong sort of dating. My bad.
By: Spartabus - 16th January 2017 at 15:48
Flattery and Prosecco?
By: CADman - 16th January 2017 at 10:26
Could a missing airfield be something to do with wartime images being ‘sensored out’ with an airbrush or similar war time technique.
Take a look RAF Wyton’s Google image for 1945, clearing showing several Canberra’s on the north side.
By: Sabrejet - 16th January 2017 at 05:37
I don’t think so, but your suspicions are correct – and it seems the dates don’t run out of line in just the one way: Hullavington’s airfield isn’t visible on supposed ‘wartime’ images, when it was (according to the stated date) well-and-truly built!
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