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Saltford and Kelston Lock, early 1900s (from tinted postcard).
SEG Home > History of Saltford > A - Z > > Online Museum > 20th C (p.1) > 20th C (p.2) The History of Saltford: ONLINE MUSEUM20th Century (page 2)River, Landscape & Aerial ViewsOn this page you can see images of the river that has always been so much of Saltford life together with aerial photographs of Saltford where you can see how Saltford once looked before many of today's houses were built. In 2018 we photographed and published below the same aerial views with a drone so that you can see how Saltford has changed. Scroll down the page to see:-
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River & Landscape
View from Homefield (above The Outlook), Saltford 1909. Note the stone wall along the side of the road that no longer exists.
Bath Sewage Treatment Works at Saltford Mead c.1914
Images courtesy of The Museum of Bath at Work (2022). There is also a rare photograph taken at this time of the treatment works staff that can be found on 20 C page 3 >>.
Kelston Lock Island at Saltford, 1920s, with Douglas motorcycle & sidecar, made in Kingswood, in foreground. Photograph courtesy of Paul Townsend, Bygone Keynsham (facebook project, 2018). 1924: "...finest scenery to be found on the Avon"This advert from the 1924 edition of the Tourist Guide to Bath was accompanied by the following text:- BOATING
Acknowledgements/Information Sources
Bristol Avon Sailing Club (BASC), Saltford (Mead Lane) from 1955BASC was established in 1955 in Saltford. These early photographs of the club's members sailing on the river at Mead Lane were kindly lent to SEG by BASC in 2019 (and 2022) to copy for the Online Museum. The modern club house was subsequently built to the RH side of the wooden hut shown in 1966 (the 1966 photograph shows the new club house under construction); the wooden hut was subsequently replaced by a house.
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Aerial Views1934 (compared with 2017) July 1934: Bath sewage works at Saltford from west looking east and with a similar view below in 2017. The 1934 photograph is reproduced by kind permission of © Historic England. 2017 photograph taken by Jamie Balsdon for © SEG. Swineford Lock is top left corner of the photograph and the Bristol to Bath A431 runs above the river. 1936 (compared with 2018) c.1936: Aerial view of railway station, Saltford Brass Mill and river and similar view taken again in 2018 for SEG. Click on either photograph to open a larger version (opens in new window). © Saltford Environment Group. 1946 aerial photographic images of Saltford1. Aerial view of Saltford (north side), 12th July 1946. This image was created by SEG by combining two photographs into one high definition image. Click here to: open larger version (opens in new window) 2. Aerial view of Saltford (south side), 12th July 1946. Click here to: open larger version (opens in new window) Acknowledgement:
1960 aerial photographic image of SaltfordAerial view of Saltford, 26th June 1960. This image was created by SEG by combining two photographs into one high definition image. Click here to: open larger version (opens in new window) Acknowledgement:
1962 (compared with 2018) 1962: Aerial view of The Glen and Uplands Road behind and similar view taken again in 2018 for SEG. Click on either photograph to open a larger version (opens in new window). © Saltford Environment Group. c.1968 aerial photographs of Saltford (compared with 2018)These six aerial photographs taken in the late 1960s (c.1968) were copied by Saltford Environment Group in April 2016 from originals held at the Somerset Heritage Centre in Taunton. They are from Historic England's Aerofilms collection. For most of these we have also provided a 2018 (colour) version. You can click on each photograph to open a larger version (each opens in new window). 1. Viewed from south: Beech Rd/ManorRd/A4 crossroads. 2. Saltford viewed from west (click on photograph for larger version). 3. Saltford viewed from SW, Grange Rd in foreground. 4. Saltford viewed from NE, St Mary's on right, closed LMS railway that became Sustrans cycleway bottom left (click on photograph for larger version). 5. Viewed from south: A4 road through Saltford in foreground (click on photograph for larger version). 6. Saltford viewed from east, River Avon and The Shallows in foreground. 1969 aerial photograph of The Shallows and Kelston Lock by Malcolm Guthrie (compared with 2018)1969: Aerial view of The Shallows and Kelston Lock, Saltford. 1969 photograph taken by Malcolm Guthrie. Similar view taken again in 2018 for SEG by Jamie Balsdon. Click on photographs to open larger version 1972 aerial photographs of Saltford by Malcolm Guthrie
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On page 3 you can find People & Miscellaneous items of interest >> On page 4 you can find WWI & WWII >> © Saltford Environment Group
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