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Flamingo Park
Chislehurst
London Borough of Bromley
28 September 2024
65 aerial photographs of varying focal lengths

 

65 aerial photographs taken from above Flamingo Park in Chislehurst, London Borough of Bromley next to Cray Wanderers Football Club on Saturday 28 September 2024 including full 360 degree panoramas from each of a 24mm, 70mm and 170mm lens. All the London sights are visible including the City, the Docklands, the Millennium Dome (O2 Arena), Wembley Stadium and the QE2 Bridge at Dartford.

 

Some of the photos, mainly those from the 170mm lens, are annotated.

 

Cray Wanderers Football Club, Flamingo Park

 

 

Cray Wanderers Football Club with a Docklands and City backdrop

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Docklands

 

The Millennium Dome (O2 Arena) is to the left and roughly in the centre is the Olympic Stadium (now known as the London Stadium and home to West Ham United) and the ArcelorMittal Orbit slidecan be seen roughly n the centre of the image behind the towering riverside apartments

 

 

The Tower is a water Tower in Shooters Hill, Greenwich and the white building towards the top right is Shooters Hill Golf Club.

 

 

 




 

 

 

The large house in extensive ground sin the top right quarter is Bexley Registry Office (Danson House)

 

 

The white buildings in the centre near the top are in Bexleyheath, with the Broadway Shopping Centre to the left and Bexley Civil Offices with the red roof to the right

 

Marlowe House & the Premier Inn in Sidcup.

 

Queen Elizabeth the Second Bridge (Dartford Crossing)

 

 

 

 

Sidcup Sports Club in the foreground. In the distance, in the top right quarter, is the A20 (left) and B2173 Maidstone Road at the point they briefly run side by side near the Swanley Premier Inn.

 

 

looking eastwards towards the M25 at the Bromley, Chislehurst & Sidcup junction of the A20,

 

 

 

St. Bartholomew's Medical School Sports Ground

 

Glebe Football Club on the left.

 

Foxbury Manor hidden in the trees in the bottom right quarter

 

Biggin Hill Airport in the top right quarter. The church spire is that of St Nicholas in Chislehurst.

 

 

I believe the spire in this picture to be that of St Georges in Bromley

 

The church just left of centre is The Church of The Annunciation in Chislehurst

 

 

Croydon in the distance

 

The two chimneys on Purley way are top left and the Arqiva Transmitter on Norwood Hill top right. In the centre, just below a single chimney (at Beddington Power Plant), the eagled eyed will spot the barreled roof of Holmesdale Stand at Selhurst Park.

 

The Arqiva Transmitter on Norwood Hill, left, and the Crystal Palace Transmitter (right)

 

Sydenham Hill

 

 

The cluster of sky scrapers just to the left of centre are close to Vauxhall Station and just to the left of those is Battersea Power Station.

 

From left is the Wembley arch, 17 miles distant, the Millennium Wheel, The Post Office Tower, The Shard, St Pauls Cathedral and the City.

 

The Shard, St Pauls Cathedral and the City.

 

 

 


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