First Complete Aerial Coverage for Greater Newcastle 1944 A team working through Transport NSW and Spatial Services NSW have successfully digitised a complete set of aerial photographs of Newcastle as it looked in 1944. The Department of Main Roads (DMR) commissioned the aerial photography during World War II, as part of its aerial surveys. This … More Newcastle and Suburbs Aerial View, 1944
One of the more bizarre episodes in the history of aerial photography occurred during World War I with the use of “squadrons” of homing pigeons, each equipped with a single shot camera on a time-fuse. The photograph (above) illustrates 3 different types of cameras used by the ‘pigeon squad’. History of Aerial Photography and the … More The History of Aerial Photography
Interview with former Pilot Officer Ronald (Ron) Slater who talks about events of 12th November 1963 when he was piloting a Royal Australian Air Force Sabre fight jet (RAAF serial number: A94 – 929) in a formation of eight aircraft from RAAF Williamtown’s No.2 Operational Conversion Unit (2OCU), his aircraft entered a spin. Ron … More Interview with Pilot Officer Ronald (Ron) Slater
If you have Google Earth on your computer you can download a .KMZ file of aerial photographs from Camberwell overlayed on to a modern Google map. You can download Google Earth Pro here. Camberwell – Run 1C, 1967 (126MB) Download .KMZ File HERE Camberwell – Run 2C, 1967 (117MB) Download .KMZ File HERE Camberwell – Run 3C, 1967 (151MB) Download … More Mapping the Aerial Photographic Archive
The following overlays are of Ravensworth Homestead in the Hunter region, showing the location of the early Homestead and extant buildings, nearby creek, roads and evidence of other possible structures. We have assembled some aerial photographs, maps and plan overlays on Google earth, and specifically enlarged the section of Ravensworth Homestead to find out what … More Aerial Photographs – Ravensworth, NSW
Photograph – CAMBERWELL-01-1967-R004C-1481-5198 These aerial photograph refer to the Upper Hunter Region in New South Wales, Australia, taken in 1958 and 1967. The original photographs are located in Boxes C3014 and C3016 in Cultural Collections at the University of Newcastle. Many thanks to Michael Paver who digitised these photographs at high resolution. Over 700 aerial … More Aerial Photographs – Camberwell & Muswellbrook, NSW
Lachlan Wetherall, in a digital project similar to his historical maps visual index, where he created a visual index to hundreds of our subdivsion plans located in flickr, has now put together another index to the aerial photography that has been recently digitised by our volunteer Jessica Waugh in the GLAMx Digitisation Lab from the … More Visual Index to Hunter Valley Aerial Photographs
Aerial photographs can be viewed here at UONCC Flickr site. A collection of aerial images donated to the Geology Department at University of Newcastle have been digitised and made public to the wider community via the UONCC Flickr site . The photographs were transferred to Cultural Collections and stored in archives at the Auchmuty Library, … More Aerial Photographs of New South Wales
The aerial view of Newcastle by Milton Kent, located in TROVE, and reproduced above was originally published in The Australasian on the 22nd June 1929 page 71, and appears to come from the same set of original glass negatives reproduced below. This may provide some evidence to the dating of at least some of … More Milton Kent’s Airplane Photographs of Newcastle
[August 25, 2014 Update] Please find updated post with new high resolution scans courtesy of Greg and Sylvia Ray here: https://hunterlivinghistories.com/2014/08/25/newcastle-aerial-photos/ [August 2014 Update] We contacted Mr Phillip Warren who was able to shed further light on the origin of the images. The originals were held in the archives of the former A. Goninan … More Newcastle from the air, circa 1928