Video: a century of aerial photography

Celebrating 50 years of Cambridge Museum of Technology, volunteers present a video of Cambridge’s industrial archaeology, as featured in a century of aerial photographs, taken from 1920s’ propellor-planes to 21st-century pilot-less drones!

The video includes:

transport infrastructure: railways, roads, bridges and aerodromes
utilities: energy-generation, sewage-treatment
construction, extractive industries (quarries and brickworks) and manufacturing (factories)

See a different side of Cambridge: our museum features permanent exhibitions about many of the companies and utilities glimpsed from above in these aerial-photo archives, including: Chivers, WG Pye & Sons, Cambridge University & Town Gas-Light Company and of course the old pumping station itself (now the site of the museum on Cheddars Lane).

How to watch

The video will premiere online on:

Cambridge Museum of Technology YouTube channel
Presented in Full High-Definition (1080p) at 60 frames-per-second: best viewed in widescreen with superfast broadband connection of at least 25 Mbits/second
(playback video also embedded on this webpage)
Cambridge Museum of Technology Facebook
(optimised for smaller screens and slower network connections at 720p, 30 frames-per-second)

You can submit your questions for live response during the premiere via the Comments section on YouTube, Facebook, or this webpage.