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Pictures: Britain from Above exhibition
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, October 1938 (Image: English Heritage - Aerofilms Collection)1 of 11 Dudley Castle and Zoo, Dudley, West Midlands, June 1947 (Image: English Heritage - Aerofilms Collection)2 of 11 FA Cup Final, Wembley Stadium (Empire Stadium), London, 27 April 1935 (Image: English Heritage - Aerofilms Collection)3 of 11 The Hall of Memory, Old Wharf and environs, Birmingham, June 1935. The Hall of Memory was built as a First World War memorial and still stands in what is now Centenary Square (Image: English Heritage - Aerofilms Collection)4 of 11 Housing estate centred upon Gillscroft Road, Glebe Farm, Birmingham, June 1946 (Image: English Heritage - Aerofilms Collection)5 of 11 Iron Age hillfort and medieval ringwork, Herefordshire Beacon, Herefordshire, June 1933 (Image: English Heritage - Aerofilms Collection)6 of 11 Round Oak Iron and Steel Works, Brierley Hill, Dudley, West Midlands, July 1947 (Image: English Heritage - Aerofilms Collection)7 of 11 The ruined Cathedral Church of St Michael, Coventry, July 1946 (Image: English Heritage - Aerofilms Collection)8 of 11 Flooding at Jaywick Sands, Essex, 2 February 1953, the result of a storm across the east coast of England on 31 January 1953. Over 300 people died and more than 30,000 had to be evacuated (Image: English Heritage - Aerofilms Collection)9 of 11 Opening of the New Bodleian Library, Oxford, 24 October 1946 (Image: English Heritage - Aerofilms Collection)10 of 11 Farming land, unidentified location, 11 August 1947 (Image: English Heritage - Aerofilms Collection)11 of 11