Aerial View of Longleat, Wiltshire (c. 1935–1945) | Real Photo Postcard

Description

Aerial View of Longleat, Wiltshire (c. 1935–1945) | Real Photo Postcard | Aero Pictorial Air View No. 26804

🏷 Publisher: Aero Pictorial Ltd., Redhill, Surrey
📸 Type: Real Photo Postcard (RP)
🕰 Era: c. 1935–1945 (Inter-war to early post-war)
📍 Location: Longleat House & Grounds, Wiltshire
✈️ Series: Air View
🔢 Card No.: 26804
⬜ Back: Plain divided back with dotted stamp box, unused

Condition:
Very good for age. Strong, sharp aerial detail across Longleat House, formal gardens and surrounding parkland. Clean image with good contrast and no creases or tears. Light age toning only. Very slight edge curling, typical of postcards of this period and easily flattened if desired. Reverse clean and unmarked.

Description:
A superb real photographic aerial view of Longleat, captured from above during the height of Britain’s air-view postcard era. The image beautifully documents the estate’s historic layout and landscaping prior to modern alterations, offering a striking bird’s-eye snapshot of one of England’s most iconic stately homes. Crisp, atmospheric and highly collectable — a proper mid-20th-century topographical piece.