Pioneering aerial photographer’s pictures show England of the 1930s
Images from Arthur William Hobart, who leant out of a biplane to produce pictures of life in the interwar period, digitised and released1930s England from the air – in pictures. They are not yet a century old but a collection of black and white photographs taken by a pioneering aerial photographer shows how very different aspects of everyday life are for Britons today. The images, taken by Arthur William Hobart in the 1930s as he leant out of a biplane, capture people moving about on horse-drawn vehicles as well as in motorised ones, and rivers teeming with working boats.
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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/oct/03/aerial-photography-england-1930s
