Historic England Blog Post, The Thames From Above

[Chris Lowe]

I got this through in email this morning, https://heritagecalling.com/2023/09/28/the-thames-from-above/ a nice article using Areofilms images.

[magnetman]

Nice pictures. 

 

The Hurst park racecourse image is impressive. I knew there had been a racecourse there by the River but never seen an image of it. 

 

 

 

 

[Derek R.]

And Ford motor works seemingly in the countryside!

[Tonka]

40 minutes ago, magnetman said:

Nice pictures. 

 

The Hurst park racecourse image is impressive. I knew there had been a racecourse there by the River but never seen an image of it. 

 

 

 

 

The bridge style structure used to be on Graburn Way and was where the racetrack crossed the road. It was I ibelive the only straight mile racecourse. When they built houses on it we went to a look at a show home. All the houses used to be only in the West Molesey end which was the poorer end of Molesey on the residents insisted on just saying Hurst Park

[Scholar Gypsy]

Thank you - some nice photos. That almost looks like the Waverley at Southend pier....  but the wrong number of chimneys

https://scholargypsy.org.uk/2022/09/29/ps-waverley-gravesend-to-clacton/

[Tony Brooks]

36 minutes ago, Scholar Gypsy said:

Thank you - some nice photos. That almost looks like the Waverley at Southend pier....  but the wrong number of chimneys

https://scholargypsy.org.uk/2022/09/29/ps-waverley-gravesend-to-clacton/

 

I suspect it is the Pre-war PS Royal Sovereign https://www.tuckdbpostcards.org/items/127578-p-s-royal-sovereign

 

The name later transferred to a diesel ship that operated on the lower Thames well into the 1960s.