John Fielding Aerial Images

A rare sight in East Anglia: Steaming metal tubes and brick chimneys like a scene from a Lowry painting.

ChatGPT says of this pic:
My estimate from the aerial image is about 2,000 cars, with a sensible range of roughly 1,700 to 2,300.

Bury St Edmunds sugar factory opened in 1925 following the British Sugar Industry Act of 1924, which created the UK’s domestic sugar beet industry. Today the British Sugar site processes thousands of tonnes of sugar and bio products. #BritishSugar #aerial #BurtStEdmunds

RAF Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, opened in 1941 for RAF Bomber Command & was taken over by the USAAF in 1942 as Station 111. The first US Eighth Air Force mission from Britain took place from here on 27 January 1943 and it was flown by B17s of the 306th Bomb Group. #RAFThurleigh #aerial

Thanks for all that brilliant information, Philip. Amazing to see how Huntanton has grown from very little, in a very short time. I love the old English in the newspaper aticle ... and didn't know that the North Sea was called the German Ocean at that time. Shades of Gulf of Mexico.

Hunstanton aerial view - Norfolk. One of the few places on England’s east coast where the sun sets over the sea. #Hunstanton #aerial #Norfolk #Coastal

AI created watercolour derived from my recent aerial shot of Cromer

Aerial view - Scroby Sands Wind Farm turbine off Great Yarmouth. Built 2003–04 with 30 turbines on the sandbank, it was among the UK’s first large offshore wind farms. #ScrobySands #aerial #image #WindFarm

I do have a big one, Reg but it may not be quite as big as your's! It doesn't get out much these days as I'm more shy than I used to be.

Fabulous shot by the way

That's brilliant, Nick! I've just spent 20 minutes trying to find you in my photographs but think I missed you. I hope you'll come over and say hello next time you see me.
Is this you with the shoulder bag by any chance?

Filmed from a very long pole ... so sort-of an aerial video of Anglia Square in Norwich being torn down. #Norwich #AngliaSquare #footage

The Broads could be a complete book - evolving history, discoveries, wildlife, sports, economy, less known broads, new broads ... future ... + aerial beauty!

the next book

Sandringham House, Norfolk - bought in 1862 by Queen Victoria as a country home for her son Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII). The present house was built 1863–70 and remains the Royal Family’s private Christmas retreat #SandringhamHouse #aerial #image #Norfolk

Ranworth Broad aerial image. Formed from medieval peat digging between 12th & 14th centuries when locals cut turf for fuel. When sea levels rose, they flooded & became the broads. Now a National Nature Reserve managed by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust & in the Broads National Park.

Trimingham’s St John the Baptist’s Head Church. In the Middle Ages it housed an alabaster carving of the saint’s severed head, linked to the famous relic at Amiens & pilgrims came here to venerate it. It was lost at the Reformation but the name endured. #Trimingham #footage

Whimpwell Bay takes its name from the medieval village of Whimpwell, once standing on this stretch of coast. The settlement was abandoned centuries ago and the sea later claimed the site, leaving only its name on the map and these fast-retreating dunes as a reminder. #aerial

Will add to album

Lovely article about our Norfolk lost villages book in this month's KL Mag. Fab aerial photos, as ever, courtesy of @john-fielding.bsky.social 👇

Looking over the southern arc of Whimpwell Bay towards Eccles & Sea Palling. It shows the effectiveness of the sea defences south of Happisburgh. #Eccles #aerial #Norfolk #Coast #CoastalErosion

How about that! Lovely high shot towards Lowestoft. I do the same on commercial flights, too ... try to pick out places I recognise.

Happisburgh last Wednesday afternoon #Happisburgh #Norfolk #Coast #aerial

A solitary Broadland church on the edge of Threehammer Common. St Peter’s at Neatishead began as a medieval chancel, was rebuilt around 1790 after its tower and nave collapsed, and has served the parish continuously since the Middle Ages. #Neatishead #aerial

A solitary Broadland church on the edge of Threehammer Common. St Peter’s at Neatishead began as a medieval chancel, was rebuilt around 1790 after its tower and nave collapsed, and has served the parish continuously since the Middle Ages. #Neatishead #aerial

Cromer in north Norfolk - winter aerial view #Cromer #AerialPhotography #Norfolk #coast

RRH Neatishead, Norfolk – the secure 2022–23 HYDRA site now housing the RAF’s Type 92 long-range Lockheed Martin radar, relocated from Trimingham. The radar itself dates from the mid-2000s and remains part of the UK’s and NATO’s air-defence picture. Operated for the MoD by Serco.

That explains why you're vieux

RAF Neatishead, Norfolk, once the nerve-centre of Britain’s Cold War air defence. Built in the 40s, it became the longest-serving radar station in the world. The white dome houses the modern Type 92 radar, while the surrounding bunkers trace decades of evolving radar technology.

Walcott, Norfolk – aerial image. This coast has retreated for centuries, with deadly floods in 1953 & damage again in 2007 & 2013. Today the seawall, rock revetments, groynes & Bacton–Walcott sandscaping scheme battle ongoing North Sea erosion & rising seas #Walcott #aerial