From a helicopter above Essex the county's landscape is described: its fields, woodlands, coastline, towns, villages, farms, roads and industry.

People discuss how new developments, including new towns, transformed a once almost entirely rural environment.

Part of a 16-part series which explores how everyday life changed during the 20th Century, described by the people of Essex, in collaboration with the British Library.

Produced and first broadcast on BBC Essex in 1999.

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