Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.
Look closely at Barton Aerodrome and you’ll see 1940s army cars, oildrums, an anti-aircraft gun and a Nazi Fieseler Storch aeroplane. The Nazis have invaded!
Luckily, this is actually the film set for 2004 Period drama Island at War, which told the stories of fictional families living under the Nazi occupation of the Channel islands during World War II.
Thanks: JosieNorden
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Ha ! First the Lingotto building which is one of favourite buildings in the whole wide world and now one of my favourite local buildings (local to me anyway).
Barton is Britains oldest continually used airport and the worlds first municipal airport. It also has the oldest continually used grass runway – although i would guess the grass that is there today is not the same grass as when it was first built!
I’m disappointed that the GSS guys didnt put a link to their website
http://www.bartonaerodrome.co.uk/
It is now owned by Peel Holdings who own the nearby Ship Canal and the shopping ‘mecca’ that is the Trafford Centre – which is also nearby.
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
I thought it looked more like the set for Churchill; The Hollywood Years. Y’know, where Adolf flies into ‘Heathrow’.
Just north of here is Placemark: the stretch of railway line / Google Earth where William Huskisson, the MP for Liverpool, on 15th Sept 1830 became the first person to be killed in a railway accident. George Stephenson’s Rocket, coasting past a train stopped for refuelling, came upon the passengers who had alighted. They were taken by surprise by the quietness of the engine and scrambled to safety: unfortunately the door Huskisson was clinging to failed to latch closed and rebounded, decanting him into the path of the engine.
Jel: you can actually see the large monument erected in honour of the event. It appears as a large white square on the south side of the track.
To be fair, that particular plane looks more WWI to me. Just sayin’.
Island at war was filmed on the Isle of Man. which doesnt show very well on google earth.