25 June 2012 Last updated at 12:40

In Pictures: Wales from above

More than 10,000 images from one of the earliest collections of aerial photography are being made freely available on the web, including many from Wales Here is a view of the Menai suspension bridge between Anglesey and the north Wales mainland in 1920. All images subject to copyright. Images courtesy of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.

The Aerofilms Collection is being conserved and digitised by English Heritage and the Royal Commissions on the Ancient and Historical Monuments for Scotland and Wales. This image shows Fishguard and Goodwick Harbour, Pembrokeshire.

View of Rhyl showing the new pavilion and bandstand complex

Many of the images are instantly recognisable but the public are also being asked for their help to identify some other locations, and paint a picture of life in the UK between 1919 and 1953. Here is Rhyl, showing the new pavilion and bandstand complex in 1920.

View of Victoria Railway Station, Swansea

More than 15,000 images have been made available. They were taken by the company Aerofilms Ltd and the collection was in danger of being dispersed and put up for sale. Here is a view of Swansea.

The collection, built up between 1919-2006, highlights the changing landscape of the British Isles, how the country has lived, worked and played together over the past 80 years. Here is Ninian Park, which in those days was home to Cardiff City FC, but here featuring a boxing match.

People are being asked to take a look at what collection and sign up to the site to put their memories of locations and sites online, to tag images and group photos together to help interest groups. This image is of dockland in Newport.

Cardiff Arms Park in 1932, with Temperance Town in the foreground before its demolition by the Cardiff Corporation in 1937. Cardiff city centre has been transformed in many ways since then, including the construction of the Millennium Stadium.

The collection captures events in the national calendar as well as locations. Here is Llandudno - in what is now the administrative county of Conwy, and was then Caernarfonshire - showing the Cenotaph war memorial during a ceremony.

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In Pictures: Wales from above

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