Celebrate 50 years of Cambridge Museum of Technology with a new video (40 minutes) created by staff and volunteers, which explores a century of Cambridge’s changing industrial landscape, as viewed from aerial photography.
Explore a different side of Cambridge – from the air!
Cambridge is renowned as an ancient university town, an even older market town, and a modern centre of the high-technology industry.
In this video, explore a different side of Cambridge – industrial Cambridge – from the air!
“Such a modern picture of your factory, business premises or property”
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Many industries grew, then disappeared from the landscape of Cambridge in the 20th century, as newer technologies emerged. Former industrial sites were often redeveloped for other uses such as residential housing, retail and technology business parks.
Cambridge hosts numerous archives of aerial photography that provides a time-lapse glimpse of Cambridge’s changing industrial landscape over the course of a century, from the 1920s to the present day.
As a result, it is possible to build aerial time lapses of areas of Cambridge beyond the collegiate centre.
In this video view:
the transformation of transport networks, including Cambridge railway station and the A14 road
the evolution of utilities, such as sewage-treatment and energy-generation
the transformation of manufacturing sites such as factories
the development of new industrial areas in the late-20th century, such as Cambridge Science Park and Cambridge Business Park
About this video
Researched, written, presented and produced by staff and volunteers of Cambridge Museum of Technology, with aerial-drone videography by Matthew Power Photography for The Willcox Collective, commissioned by Cambridge Museum of Technology.
Licence: Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Some rights reserved. Images are the copyright of owners as indicated, used with permission.
Running time: 43 minutes
Language: English
Accessibility: subtitles
