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  • BarelySentientAI
    BarelySentientAI Posts: 2,448 Forumite
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    WheatOne said:
    BarelySentientAI said:
    WheatOne said:

    Unfortunately aerial photos and detailed maps are difficult to find for free from the 60s to the 90s.

    Satellite images and aerial photos are extremely easy to find for free in more recent years - which tends to cover the 90s.

    Sporadic but decent coverage from the 80s.

    Little before then.
    I've never found a site with comprehensive coverage pre 2000 and post war that doesn't charge.
    Happen to have a link? 

    There are plenty of individual images of low resolution images available but that is no good for looking at a specific uninteresting area.
    Depends on how uninteresting your area is.  First place I'd try would be Google Earth Pro (the desktop version).  I've had decent success finding 80s & 90s images of many areas for planning purposes.
  • glennevis
    glennevis Posts: 779 Forumite
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    National Library of Scotland has many, many UK maps going back centuries 

    https://maps.nls.uk/
  • Albermarle
    Albermarle Posts: 29,741 Forumite
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    glennevis said:
    National Library of Scotland has many, many UK maps going back centuries 

    https://maps.nls.uk/
    That is a seriously large resource of maps!
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