'Flicking through these photos lets you take flight over 1930s England, to see the changing face of the country in the interwar period.'
It is a view of Britian that was a few years away from being changed forever. Arthur William Hobart took to the skies to picture the country on the eve of the Second World War.
The towering Hyde Gasworks and the vast Albert Silk Mills in Macclesfield which were built in 1840 are also captured. Bamber Bridge Cotton Mill, also known as Wesley Street Mill, a huge spinning mill designed in 1907 is pictured, two decades before it was demolished in the 1950s to make way for new homes.
The Collection features national landmarks such as St Paul’s Cathedral, and Battersea Power Station, and Southampton FC's original home The Dell. Born in 1882 in London, Arthur William Hobart was an early commercial aerial photographer who started in the business around 1920. To-date no service record can be found for Hobart, however many early commercial aerial photographers had served during the First World War in aerial-related roles, and prior to the First World War he worked as a baker, commercial traveller and a draper’s clerk.
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