ED from the Air

[krigh]

Personally I love checking out my neighbourhood from the air and so I thought I would share for those who like to do the same. Taken back in November 2012.

Here is a link for anyone who wants to see the full-res version. http://dancelikenooneiswatching.com/photos/East-Dulwich-from-the-air.jpg

Enjoy,

Krigh

[Twirly]

Fab picture - thank you. I always thought the area was very green, this proves it!

[DJKillaQueen]

Fabulous photo but don't show it to James Barber. He'll be horrified to see that ED is not an Island ;)

[ratty]

Got my bearings and can actually see my house in that pic! Brilliant!

[Townleygreen]

took me a while to get orientated! the big green area on the left is Peckham Rye etc, the one on the right is Dulwich Park, so (roughly) north is at the bottom.

[Chillaxed]

Cool, thanks krigh.

[i*Rate]

Krigh,

Many thanks for the photo - I'll look out for all of the new lofts and maybe new Waitrose sites.

Cheers.

[Vik]

Brilliant, can see my house too, thanks for that.

[edhistory]

Excellent photo.

Particularly as it is an oblique looking SW that covers the whole of East Dulwich.

It's interesting to see how much of the historic landscape can be seen embedded in a 2012 photo.

John K

[PeckhamRose]

How excellent. I took a similar photo when I was flying over but it was not nearly as clear so well done you! Love how green it looks and you can see the train line and either someone has a blue roof or a swimming pool can't work out which!

Also the edge of Brenchley Gardens, and the Reservoir.

Thanks so much for posting!

[Jeremy]

PeckhamRose Wrote:

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> either someone has a blue roof

> or a swimming pool can't work out which!

If you mean the blue thing on the right - I think it's a tennis court.

[ianr]

> and you can see the train line and either someone has a blue roof or a swimming pool can't work out which!

On the Google maps satellite photo there's a pair of games pitch areas together, grey and terra cotta coloured, just south of N Dulwich station, if that's what you're looking at. I'd guess that the grey one has been recoated in a trendy blue.

[Vik]

I think that's the tennis club?

[catma]

And Bellenden Road/Choumert road make it into the picture too!!

Thanks.

[Terry2012]

Wow, great pic thanks!

Kept my kids amused setting them the task of finding our house :)

[ianr]

Taking the title of the photograph literally I worked out, to the nearest pixel, where the virtual centre of East Dulwich is -- in East Dulwich Grove near the junction with Lordship Lane, probably in someone's back room.

[iceicebaby]

Great pic thanks!

[SteveUK1978]

Good work, great pic, well done for sneaking the camera out on the plane. I flew into City the other day and couldn't pick out ED....think I was on the wrong side of the plane.

See there is some benefit to being on the flight path to all those who moan on here about having knowingly bought property under a flight path.

[civilservant]

Great pic, which is somehow more satisfying to look at than the Google maps views.

ED itself looks densely built-up, a sort of human ant-heap, not very green at all. The green bits seem to belong to Peckham (the Rye) or to DV.

[edhistory]

Don't forget that Peckham Rye Common is in Nunhead and East Dulwich.

The aerial photo shows how much damage the speculators did when they built Crimea. Just look west to the equivalent part of Dulwich Manor.

John K

[krigh]

Glad everyone enjoyed them. I've put up a few more that I took in the sequence. I spotted Peckham Rye station first and started clicking from there. It was just my iPhone and unfortunately it doesn't capture the same quality as my SLR.

http://dancelikenooneiswatching.com/photos/East-Dulwich-from-the-air2.jpg

http://dancelikenooneiswatching.com/photos/Peckham-from-the-air2.jpg

http://dancelikenooneiswatching.com/photos/Peckham-from-the-air.jpg

SteveUK - I actually usually pick my seat based on seeing London or ED if I can. I was flying in from Vegas and knew Heathrow lands from the east to west over ED and then Richmond Park. Was lucky to be spot on.

Ianr - Yes, it is surprising how much more interesting it is than Google Maps/Earth. Something about seeing it in one shot for real is quite fun. Speaking of maps though for those who haven't seen BING (Microsoft) maps have been updated with Aerial Photography from 2012 that is brilliant. You can almost recognise people in the photos. Super close and you can see all the detail on the buildings:

http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=sk90pngztc6t&lvl=20.18&dir=98.58&sty=o&eo=0&where1=East%20Dulwich%2C%20London&form=LMLTCC

[mikeb]

Just came across these - nice perspective on ED

http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-aerial-view-north-east-of-dulwich-high-school-playing-fields-tennis-20488955.html

http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-aerial-view-north-east-of-herne-hill-velodrome-sports-grounds-railway-20488952.html

http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-aerial-view-north-east-dulwich-college-playing-fields-alleyn-park-20488936.html