Millennium Dome, Greenwich, London

Photograph taken June 2000 © Copyright Historic England Archive ref: nmr 18795/22

An aerial view of the Millennium Dome situated on a former gas works site by the River Thames. It was built in 1997-9 to house a huge visitor attraction for the Millennium. It has a circumference of 1km and is 50m high.

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Greater London Greenwich

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2000s (2000 - 2009)

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"Wills, Shaw and Friese-Greene Ready to Film". This was a publicity shot for the foundation of the Aerofilms aerial photography company. It was taken at the London Aerodrome, Hendon. Francis Lewis Wills was a former Royal Naval Air Service Observer and co-founder of Aerofilms. Claude Friese-Greene, holding the cine-camera, was technical director for Aerofilms in its early days, but is best known as a pioneering cinematographer. We know very little about Shaw, the pilot, probably an AirCo employee.

Millennium Dome, Greenwich, London

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