I’ve just purchased a magazine on E**y which has an article in it that the seller claims to have six photos of my favourite airfield in it – this is a bit of a turn-up as previously I’d only ever found 3! If they really are (at that price they’d better!) then they’ll be quite a Christmas present.
Those three were used by Air Britain way back when for an “Aeromilitaria”, and came from the RAF Museum collection. So perhaps the other three are too…?
The Museum website doesn’t actually say very much about doing your own research (except that a search of their Navigator doesn’t reveal anything :(), least of all how the photgraphic collection is laid out. I’m sure someone here has been and researched – can you give me any pointers as to how easy it is to find stuff, get copies etc? Your help would be very much appreciated!
Many thanks,
Adrian
By: adrian_gray - 19th December 2008 at 17:44
Thanks for the suggestions, gentlemen. Hopefully I can get somewhere. First thing will be to find Aeromilitaria and check the credits. Fingers crossed that as A-B identified them from the signal square someone will have made a note…
Adrian
By: Pondskater - 18th December 2008 at 19:32
Hi Adrian,
Your best bet is to hope that the photos are credited, not just to the RAF Museum but also with the negative number, which would make ordering so easy – if the library is open again, it was closed for quite a while. You need to call them and ask nicely, good luck.
Have you tried the IWM photo library? I was in there a week ago. They have 250,000 searchable on their website (Click here) but the rest of the 10 million + images are still on a card index and you need to go in to see the photos for yourself. Might be worth a trip.
Allan
By: Whitley_Project - 18th December 2008 at 18:13
They should post some of them on here – i’m sure they could get a few IDd that way
By: Alan Clark - 18th December 2008 at 17:57
I visited recently to go through accident card on microfilm and had quite a long chat with them about the photographic collection, being interested in anything relating to high ground accidents.
They have something like 250,000 images but it is not fully indexed, some are on their electronic database. The problem they have is most are not identifiable beyond it being an airfield with standard structures or a particular a/c type. If there are identifying features, such as a name or serial number then they are indexed.
Another possible source of the photos is the Operations Record Book of any resident units at the National Archives.
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December 18, 2008 at 5:05 pm