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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Steven Morris

Pioneering aerial photographer’s pictures show England of the 1930s

aerial view of a site with pottery kilns and chimneys, bordered by a canal and rows of terrace houses
The Trent and New Wharf potteries in Burslem. ‘These places were embedded within the communities,’ said Gary Winter, of Historic England. Photograph: Arthur W Hobart/The Historic England Archive, Historic England

They are not yet a century old but a collection of black and white photographs taken by a pioneering aerial photographer shows how very different aspects of everyday life are for Britons today.

The images, taken by Arthur William Hobart in the 1930s as he leant out of a biplane, capture people moving about on horse-drawn vehicles as well as in motorised ones, and rivers teeming with working boats.

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