London BeforePIMLICO / FOOTPRINT STUDY
1940–1945 × TODAY

Where the footprints diverge.

The damage belongs to a place.
Today’s building may have a different shape.

PERSPECTIVE VIEWThe existing model, on the same evidence.
Provisional alignment
Finding the intersections…Reading the saved alignment and original damage colours.
DAMAGE COLOURS / CUMULATIVE WARTIME RECORD

Draft colour regions, not verified historical footprints. Roof heights follow the modern model; Russell House uses its illustrative 8 m fallback. No blast simulation.

SOURCE / METHOD / LIMITS

Same coordinates. Different footprints.

The source colours are intersected with the union of modern footprints inside the existing Russell House trial boundary. Shared ground is projected onto the corresponding modern roof pieces; colour outside the modern union remains on the ground. Modern area with no classified colour stays neutral.

These are detected damage regions, not verified historical building outlines. An outside region may indicate a vanished building, but alignment error, ink extraction, or missing modern data can also cause a mismatch. The paper records cumulative damage, not individual impact points. The separated view adds display offsets, not reconstructed historical heights.

The saved alignment reports 3 check landmarks and 10.3 m RMS residual. Those landmarks are manual estimates, not an independent accuracy benchmark. No controls in this exploration save over the alignment or colouring tool.

Modern release: 2026-08-19.0. model pieces use illustrative fallback heights. Watermarked areas remain excluded from classified damage.

LCC Sheet 88 · The London Archives ↗Open the supplied source image ↗Open the alignment and colour workspace ↗