Doncaster: Town End 1850.
If our maps, especially our *new* maps like this, can show you one thing it’s that everywhere and everyone has a story to tell, if you give the time to find it.
Even this outer edge of #Doncaster 176 years ago has a rich and fascinating past (check out our samples!).
#Bath 1902.
We've visited this map before and looked at the astonishing story of Beau Nash - as detailed in our introduction - so today we’re going to look briefly at the sad fall and rebirth of the city, brilliantly detailed here👇
Bath’s history must be unique?
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Blimey, we have about 50 Edinburgh maps!
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Personally, this is one of my favourite places in the city to wander. Calm and relatively quiet, with occasional patches of commercial activity like a pub or a bookshop to dip into.
-Andrew.
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#Edinburgh: Dean Village & Moray Place 1877.
One of those maps that looks more like artwork than street plan. There’s something hypnotically alluring about the curves & lines, the almost-pattern suggesting a paisley design writ large across a cityscape. There’s some great history here too, as usual!
Highlights include the busily interesting history of #Bournemouth hotels – which often changed their use quite dramatically – & our usual excellent overview of the general development of the area including transport and religious changes, and a local surveyor with the excellent name ‘Crabbe Creeke’!
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Bournemouth (North) 1922.
We are short served in lovely #Bournemouth at the moment, but thankfully we have an exciting new subscription for the area coming very soon to fix that!
We’re sharing a currently available map today to whet your appetite for our upcoming 10 new maps!
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Aside from one of the biggest brick buildings in the UK and the connections it must have to an incredible number of people a century or so later, Alan Godfrey’s introduction is another warmly interesting journey around landscape and history.
#Portsmouth
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Old Portsmouth & Gosport 1908.
One of the great things about the AGM collection is that you’ll often find the same area having several maps, building up a sort of 3D tapestry of change. The changes between 1908 & 1931 are noted in the introduction, but I’d like to focus one part today (see samples).
They stole my map too, heartbreakingly... I'm lost without it.
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Manchester (Clayton) 1915
Where to start with this astonishing publication? That it is the future home of Manchester City FC? That a flash flood once led to the river being filled with coffins & corpses? That we have an overview of an area that is the site of the only moated building in Manchester?
This is a map we will revisit, of course!
But this afternoon please allow us to direct you to our text sample. It’s a good example of our map introductions bringing a human element to these documents, filling in the white spaces with not only history, but people and their lived experiences.
This is a map we will revisit, of course!
But this afternoon please allow us to direct you to our text sample. It’s a good example of our map introductions bringing a human element to these documents, filling in the white spaces with not only history, but people and their lived experiences.
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Manchester (Clayton) 1915
Where to start with this astonishing publication? That it is the future home of Manchester City FC? That a flash flood once led to the river being filled with coffins & corpses? That we have an overview of an area that is the site of the only moated building in Manchester?
Tomorrow evening, all welcome.
Ahoy crew! Another 'ARRR' post for you this afternoon - A Recent Release Repost that helped kick off #London Week!
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Tomorrow we're off to #Manchester!
Haha! Well, I believe we still have some to publish, so keep your fingers crossed!
Andrew
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Here's a recent release repost - Exeter (West) & Exwick 1904!
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Hello freinds old and new!
We've just finished our special #London week, and tomorrow we'll be having another look at some recent releases, before we start our tour around the country in #Manchester!
If that's not enough map action for you, check out last month's WW2 special series again?
We visited this map some time ago talking about the Bank of England - on this map page too - in *full detail*… Yes, internal walls, room names and all! For some reason the OS stopped doing that sort of thing quite quickly, as we’ve mentioned in previous posts!
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Bank & The City 1873.
Another impossibly rich London map today, so of course we’re going to look in the corner and focus on a tiny piece of text that says ‘London Stone’, a relic that could be described as ‘enigmatically odd’!
Alan Godfrey explains more in our sampled text.
Our introduction reflects this comment, mentioning man's touch on the landscape going back thousands of years. The Anglo-Saxon church is essentially gone, but the religious echoes are still rippling out, as we can see on both maps and in our fulsome text.
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I think Ozzy & Kelly Osboune did in 2003?
Andrew