English Heritage (EH) has announced that the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has agreed to support the conservation and digitisation of one of the earliest and most significant collections of oblique aerial photography of the United Kingdom with a grant of £1,755,772.
This generous grant will help English Heritage and the Royal Commissions on the Ancient and Historical Monuments for Scotland and Wales to undertake a four-year conservation programme on the oldest and most valuable photographs in the historic Aerofilms Collection and to make them freely available online.
The Aerofilms Collection, acquired for the nation in 2007, is a unique and important archive of over 1 million aerial photographs taken between 1919 and 2006 which show the changing face of Britain during the twentieth century.
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