https://maps.nls.uk/view/228781718 25" Ordnance Survey Map (detail) Drawing for Edinburghshire I.16 Revised: 1906, Published: 1908, on a blue of previous edition Size: sheet ca. 71 x 104 cm (ca. 28 x 41 inches)

Sometime in early 1902, my great grandparents, Samuel Annal and Margaret Miller, travelled from their native Orkney to Edinburgh. They would have arrived in Leith Harbour and I often wonder what their first impressions must have been of the hustle and bustle of the docks.

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National Library of Scotland https://maps.nls.uk/view/82877466 Edinburghshire III.12 Revised: 1932, Published: 1933 Size: map 64.4 cm x 96.6 cm (25.344 x 38.016 inches), on sheet ca. 76 x 104 cm (ca. 30 x 41 inches) Detail, showing the location of 18 Sciennes Road, Edinburgh

My dad was born in 1933 in his parents' house at 18 Sciennes Road, Edinburgh. He only lived there for a couple of years before they moved out to Carrick Knowe but the house stayed in the family until the 1940s and was later owned by friends who lived there until the 1980s.

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Ordnance Survey 1:1250 Map, detail, showing houses in Hillview Crescent, Edinburgh Sheet NT1973SE - A Surveyed: 1947, Published: ca.1949 Size: map 40 x 40 cm (16 x 16 inches), on sheet ca. 56 x 49 cm (ca. 22 x 20 inches) National Library of Scotland

My parents moved back to Edinburgh in the 1980s and bought a house in the western suburb of Corstorphine, not far from where my dad had grown up.

I'll be spending the week in the house with my brothers as we prepare to sell it. The end of an era...

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Detail of 6 inch map Edinburghshire Sheet III.SW Date revised: 1932, Date Published: 1932 Size: map 31 x 46 cm (ca. 12 x 18 inches), on sheet ca. 43 x 58 cm (ca. 17 x 23 inches) https://maps.nls.uk/view/75512888

Detail of 6 inch map Edinburghshire Sheet III.SW Date revised: 1938, Probable Date Published: ca. 1944 Size: map 31 x 46 cm (ca. 12 x 18 inches), on sheet ca. 43 x 58 cm (ca. 17 x 23 inches) https://maps.nls.uk/view/75512885

In 1936 my paternal grandparents moved into a brand new house in Carrick Knowe to the west of Edinburgh. The house was part of a new development and these two maps from 1932 and 1938 illustrate the impact of the new estate on the landscape.

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#2 6" maps Edinburgh Sheet III.SW

Held At: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies Title: Manuscript map (in two parts) of the Bushey Hall Estate, property of Sir Robert Marsham A Survey & Ground Plot of a certain Parcell of Land called Bushy Hall Lying and being in the Parish of Bushy in the county of Hertfordshire being a Parcel of the Possessions of Sir Robert Marsham Measured and thus Drawn in the Year 1685 and Containes a r p [No surveyor] Description: Unspecified acreage in North West Bushey, East of River Colne and North West of Bushey Hall. Fieldnames; names of adjacent landowners. Acreages; trees; line of river; lines of views to Bushey and to watford Church. Field boundaries outlined in green. Compass rose. The map has a very ornate Scale, Cartouche, and border (on two sides only) featuring cherubs with various surveying instruments, monkeys, squirrels, peacocks, and foliage, but all are pre-engraved with colouring and details of map in title added by hand. Underneath the scale the name of the engraver is given as Gulielms Beng. The northern-most part of the map has been roughly cut off and is missing. Size 32x22 Inches, Scale 24.8 Inches to 1 Mile Date: 1685

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#1 Map of the Bushey Hall Estate, Hertfordshire, 1685

This is what the place I live looked like nearly 350 years ago. The future site of my house is towards the top of the map, by the right hand row of trees.

Bushey Hall has long since gone...