Where did you grow up as a kid? Where did your parents live? Some interesting old pics on here if you search by location Britain from Above | Rescue the Past
Have you noticed the lack of traffic..? Or road signs, traffic lights, crosshatching, speed humps, traffic islands, speed cameras... It makes you wonder, if they'd take all the 'safety' detritus off the highways, just how bad it would all be.
not much has changed. Loch Creran Lismore and Appin, Argyll, Scotland. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing East. This image was marked by AeroPictorial Ltd for photo editing. | Britain from Above
Unless I'm very much mistaken that is Taunton. Ironically that site is now occupied by a whole food cafe.