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Need a help. Historical British buildings
I need the picts and photos of the following buildings in period of BoB (modrn buildinga are modified!):
London National Gallery London British Museum Westminster Abbey Dover Castle Dover Pier We would like to recover it in original look how it was in 1940. If you have it, just let me know please. Or we will have it as it is now....:( |
Just in-case you never saw this on the SimHQ or IL2 forums, here's a copy of a post I did that I thought some of you may like:
"Firstly let me qualify the topic! I visited the archives of the newspaper I work on in the Midlands of the UK called The Birmingham Post. Tucked away in the depths are newspapers dating back to 1881, but I was heading for the Battle of Britain period. Unfortunately, because they are so fragile now, they are not allowed to be removed from the binders that they are in, so I set a camera up (Nikon D2H with 50mm lens) on a tripod and photographed the main news page, which detail the attacks on Britain, and also reports other war zones. The detail is quite amazing, and I'd like to point out that as these were written 67-years-ago, we have the benefit of hind-sight so any 'historical' inaccuracies....well...er...weren't at that time! I have done my best to keep the quality as good as I could, and every page is readable when zoomed to 100%. The .zip file contains the original size photos of the pages, un-cropped. So if you fancy seeing what was being written through that period between the 2nd of September and 18th of September 1940, have a look at this file. As I have said, the quality is the best I can keep it with the constraints I was given, but it was strange for me to read events, which at the time were being faced by real people, but which now is only found in History books. Anyway, the .zip also contains some close-ups of war bond adverts of the time, and also (which I was amazed at to be honest) an aerial view of Buckingham Palace! So at least the Germans would be able to ID it from the air then! I have uploaded the file here: http://www.mediafire.com/?15w2xtgfldy This link takes you to a a download page at Mediafire, a free-hosting website. On it you will find the link to a .zip archive which is 82mb in size. If you download it, please take the time to reply to this post." Cheers, MP. |
have you looked this post from Rodolphe Oleg ?
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...&postcount=129 it is a french user of the check six's forums and he always have a lot of good pictures ! May be he can help you ... I will ask him to have a look on this thread http://users.teledisnet.be/web/mfe39146/Parliam.jpg |
The buildings are hardly touched structurally as they are Historical monuments.
The surrounding out buildings and service areas probably need removing from modern pics but the buildings are as they were then apart from the colour, mostly black / grey stone work due to dust / soot etc. Roofing materials and structures should be the same as they restore the lead copper like for like to preserve original specification, see national heritage and English heritage web sites, so there should be no structural changes made. As for Dover pier this site might help. http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/s...er/index.shtml |
Please remember that all historical sites and buildings were SANDBAGGED in the period of BoB. Monuments were covered up or removed to prevent bomb damage. Just look at the famous Anteros statue on Piccadilly Circus:
1896: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...circus1896.gif WWII: http://www.gallagher.com/ww2/images/..._II_12_69e.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piccadilly_Circus "The Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain in Piccadilly Circus was erected in 1893 to commemorate the philanthropic works of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. During the Second World War, the statue atop the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain was removed and was replaced by advertising hoardings. It was returned in 1948." |
The book and the DVD (and the video extract) on this page may be relevant -
The National Gallery in Wartime http://www.nationalgallery.co.uk/sho...oductID=300952 Cheers, |
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A tour of London in 1938. Buckingham Palace 00:15 Constituition Hill 00:01:30 British Museum 00:02:40 Picadilly Circus 00:03:28 Trafalgar Square National Gallery, Church of St Martins, Nelson's Column 00:04:04 Whitehall 00:04:35 10 Downing Street, Neville Chamberlain 00:05:15 the Centograph 00:05:40 Scotland Yard 00:06:25 Westminster Abbey, Big Ben 00:06:40 St Paul's Cathedral 00:07:30 Bank of England 00:07:46 Tower of London 00:08:55 London Bridge 00:10:45 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnupsncpTng&NR=1 More to come next week. ; ) ... |
British Pathe
This is an excellent source of period imagery. Just start pulling up films with London in the description and 1940 in the date.
http://www.britishpathe.com/search.php |
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Cheers PPanPan |
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