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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 7h

King’s Lynn was once Bishop’s Lynn - Henry VIII renamed it after taking the town from the Church in 1537. This view spans the Great Ouse, with West Lynn in the foreground and the historic port, docks and town beyond. #KingsLynn #Norfolk #AerialPhotography

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Scroby Sands, off Great Yarmouth, is a highly mobile sandbank reshaped by tides and storms; it has long been a haul-out for seals and a hazard to shipping. #ScrobySands #GreatYarmouth #AerialPhotography

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Cromer Pier hosts the world’s only full-season end-of-pier show. The 151m Grade II-listed pier opened in 1901; its RNLI boathouse at the seaward end dates from 1923. #Cromer #Norfolk #AerialPhotography

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Built from nothing on a shepherds’ summer plateau in 1946, Courchevel 1850 was conceived as a revolutionary “skiable city”. Today it’s the historic heart of Courchevel and a gateway to Les 3 Vallées, the world’s largest ski area. #Courchevel #FrenchAlps #Aerial #VueAérienne

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

John Constable painted this landscape in 1816 almost 150 years before a university was dropped into the middle of it. Essex opened here in 1964, its radical concrete campus deliberately concentrated in the valley to preserve Wivenhoe Park around it #WeAreEssex #Colchester #Essex

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Castle Ashby’s roof collapsed twice — in 1771 and again in 1884 ... yet this great Elizabethan house survived both rebuilds. Begun in 1574 for the Compton family, it later gained gardens and parkland shaped by Capability Brown. #CastleAshby #Northamptonshire #AerialPhotography

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

44 homes have been lost or demolished at Hemsby in just the past decade: 7 in 2018, 11 in 2023 and 26 more over the winter of 2025–26. This summer view shows what remains behind one of England’s most rapidly retreating coastlines. #Hemsby #Norfolk #Coast #AerialPhotography

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Leicester chose its Town Hall architect by voting for the designs they liked least - the one with the fewest rejection votes won. F.J. Hames’s building opened in 1876, complete with council chamber, law courts, police cells & accommodation for 30 lamplighters. #Leicester #Aerial

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It took 1.25 million bricks and 142 tons of iron to build this Victorian water tower. Colchester’s 33m-high “Jumbo” opened in 1883 and held 230,000 gallons. Now a £10m+ restoration is turning it into a visitor attraction, restaurant and events venue. #Colchester #Essex #Aerial

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This tiny Essex chapel was built around AD 654 using stone and bricks robbed from a Roman fort. St Peter-on-the-Wall at Bradwell is one of England’s oldest surviving churches ... and for centuries it was used as a barn before being restored in 1920. #Essex #Bradwell #Aerial

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This extraordinary roof helped point the way to the Crystal Palace. Chatham’s No. 4 Slip was built in 1847–48 with pioneering cast-iron framing, years before Britain’s great railway sheds. Today it houses 20 historic RNLI lifeboats. #Chatham #RNLI #PoleAerialPhotography

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This tiny Norfolk church contains four sets of Royal Arms - more than any other church in East Anglia. St Mary’s, Denton, also hides the remains of a Norman round tower, partly rebuilt square after it collapsed, plus stained glass around 700 years old. #Norfolk #Aerial #Church

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Helhoughton was a surprisingly substantial place 940 years ago - the Domesday Book records about 73 households, putting it in the larger 20% of settlements surveyed. Its name combines the Norse personal name Helgi with the Old English “tun”, or farmstead. #Norfolk #Helhoughton

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When York station opened in 1877 it was the largest railway station in the world. Its 13 platforms finally let through-trains avoid reversing out of York. Today its great curved trainshed still carries the East Coast Main Line through the city. #York #Railways #AerialPhotography

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This Lincolnshire castle holds one of Britain’s largest collections of royal thrones outside the Royal Palaces. Henry VIII gave Grimsthorpe as a wedding gift in 1516; its spectacular Baroque front was Sir John Vanbrugh’s final masterpiece. #Grimsthorpe #Lincolnshire #Aerial

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This 160-year-old military landscape may soon disappear beneath housing. Middlewick Ranges has been used for firing since the 1850s, but the MOD earmarked it for disposal. Its future is still disputed, with ecology, public access and development all in play. #Colchester #Essex

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What a full and colourful life he had! Thanks for the link.

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A world heavyweight boxing champion is commemorated here but he isn’t buried here. Jem Mace, born in Beeston in 1831 became “Champion of the World”; his memorial cross stands in St Mary’s churchyard. The church’s spire was rebuilt after lightning struck in 1872. #Norfolk #Aerial

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Now home to Ali Dent and his gnomes, Hilgay was once literally an island in the Fens — its name means “island of Hydla’s people”. Drainage has since lowered the surrounding peat, making its raised position more obvious. The River Wissey curls past the village. #Hilgay #Norfolk

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s quite an asset. Architecturally eye catching from above. I had no idea what it was when I photographed it.

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It is odd. Why choose 499? Maybe there’s actually 503 seats but Marketing said ‘No … it’s got to be 499’

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Leicester City’s training ground has its own nine-hole golf course. The 185-acre Seagrave complex cost about £95m and includes 21 playing surfaces, 14 full-size pitches, a 499-seat show pitch, hydrotherapy facilities and player accommodation. #LCFC #Seagrave

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Now I just have to market the concept to become insanely wealthy. I’ll give you 10%.

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That would make life considerably easier for the pilot. I’ll go away now and patent a design for one!

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This ship’s gangway can stay virtually still against a wind turbine while the ship beneath it pitches, rolls and heaves in the sea. IWS Windwalker is a 90m hybrid CSOV, built to transfer technicians safely onto offshore turbines. #Lowestoft #OffshoreWind

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Unfortunately, deep in Heathrow and City Airport airspace.

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sure … happy to, if I’m in that direction.

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Once a huge Cold War USAF nuclear bomber base, RAF Sculthorpe is still in military use today. Its 3,000-yard runway and sprawling dispersals survive within the Sculthorpe Training Area, now used for MOD training. #Norfolk #RAF #ColdWar

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I like the myth so much that I’m not going to spoil it by investigating to see if it’s true .

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

They still sell horses in guineas — a currency whose coin vanished in 1816. Tattersalls, founded in 1766, is the world’s oldest thoroughbred auctioneer. Its Newmarket home, Park Paddocks, was bought in 1898; Marsha sold here for a European-record 6m guineas in 2017. #Newmarket #Aerial

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

He may rage against them, but the USA has rather a lot of them! Wind now generates around 11% of US electricity, making America the world’s second-largest producer of wind power after China.

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

These crumbling cliffs contain sands laid down in a shallow sea around 2 million years ago. Yet at Thorpeness, over 27m of cliff was lost in little more than a year by Jan 2026, forcing homes on North End Avenue to be demolished. #Thorpeness #Suffolk #Erosion

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This Skegness hotel began life as a golf clubhouse. North Shore’s links opened in 1910 and were designed by five-time Open champion James Braid. The original clubhouse grew into today’s hotel, beside an 18-hole course. #Skegness #Golf #Lincolnshire

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You’re in good company, David! Benjamin Britten was born in Lowestoft, Anthony Ogogo is a Lowestoft man, while Terry Butcher grew up there and The Darkness emerged from the town too. Quite a roll-call.

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Lowestoft had a grand plan: turn Norwich into a seaport. Lake Lothing was opened to the sea in 1831 and the New Cut followed in 1833. But the dream collapsed, the company went bust and, in 1847, the railway arrived to transform Lowestoft instead. #Lowestoft #Suffolk #Aerial

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Its four steel legs are each 55 metres long - taller than Nelson’s Column. Haven SeaChallenger can carry up to 1,000 tonnes on its 1,200m² deck and is seen here working offshore at Sizewell C. Built in Japan in 1974, it’s still earning its keep 52 years later. #Sizewell #Suffolk #AerialPhotography

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

These turbines generate cash as well as electricity. Gayton le Marsh’s wind farm pays about £24,000 a year into a village fund, used for community grants, maintenance and road passing places. In this photograph, you see sunlight hitting a passing rain shower #Lincolnshire #WindPower #Aerial

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This barge can literally lift itself out of the sea. Haven SeaChallenger is a 50m × 24m jack-up barge: four legs are lowered to the seabed, then the 1,000-tonne-capacity platform is jacked above the waves to create a stable offshore worksite. Seen here off Sizewell #Sizewell #Suffolk #Aerial #Coast

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One Bishop of Lincoln became known as the “Bishop of Buckden who never saw Lincoln”! Buckden Towers was a bishops’ palace for centuries; its Great Tower dates to c.1480. Catherine of Aragon lived here in 1533–34 after Henry VIII cast her aside. #BuckdenTowers #Cambridgeshire

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In 1839, coaches from the north passed through Buckden almost hourly; by 1854, not one was seen in its streets. The village grew on the Great North Road. Behind it lies Grafham Water, created in the 1960s and officially opened by Prince Philip in 1966. #Buckden #GrafhamWater #AerialPhotography

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Glad you like. It's kind of you to leave a comment 😀

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You can do almost anything if you're a king ... change time itself.

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Until 1936, Sandringham kept its own time - 30 mins ahead of GMT, introduced by Edward VII to make more of the daylight. Bought for the future Edward VII in 1862, the Norfolk estate remains a private royal home. House & Gardens open seasonally #Sandringham #Norfolk #RoyalFamily

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Rochester Cathedral has recorded more than 7,000 pieces of graffiti, some dating back to the 12th century – including medieval masons’ marks and votive inscriptions. Founded in AD 604, it’s England’s second-oldest cathedral foundation. #Rochester #AerialPhotography #Kent

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hidden among the trees at East Lexham, St Andrew’s is a remarkable survivor. Its round west tower is Saxo-Norman and the Grade I-listed church has two extraordinary bell openings, each carved from a single slab of stone. #Norfolk #Churches #AerialPhotography

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It’s on a different scale. Sizewell B is one reactor; Sizewell C will have two EPR reactors, each far larger, plus all the associated roads, earthworks, utilities and construction compounds. Much of it is temporary ... but there’s no denying the impact while it’s being built.

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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Flying south down the Suffolk coast towards Sizewell, where the vast scale of construction for Sizewell C is impossible to miss. New roads, earthworks and infrastructure are transforming the landscape around the existing Sizewell B. #SizewellC #Suffolk #Sizewell #AerialPhotography

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