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I recently bought a linen-backed copy of the One Inch Popular Edition sheet no 44 in excellent physical condition with a view to using it for display....
Alan Bowring
alan.bowring@...
Aug 1, 2003 8:40 pm
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Martin You have been down this road before.... Check your message on "ordnancemaps" dated April 29, 2003 and associated messages from others at the same time....
A new Yahoo Group has been set up dedicated to the study of the Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 map. Although created by a member of The Charles Close Society, it is...
Some of you may know that Richard Oliver and I are preparing a new guide to the OS one-inch coloured third edition maps, which we hope will be ready for...
roger hellyer
roger.hellyer@...
Aug 5, 2003 7:45 am
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You could try lighter fluid. It should remove the pencil, but check on a small area first that it doesnot remove the colour Bruce ... Edition sheet no 44 in...
My apologies that due to a combination of circumstances, the August edition of Sheetlines will not reach CCS members until around 1 September. You will then...
On the first and second ed. 6" maps there are PH (Public Houses) BH (Beer Houses) and Inns. Can anyone tell me what the difference is, and is a Tavern...
From one who is also often `lost in Suffolk' - beer houses certainly existed in some numbers in this county - and I assume also elsewhere. I believe there is...
... existed in some numbers in this county - and I assume also elsewhere. I believe there is a very simple explanation, i.e. they provided beer - but nothing...
... Just been having an EMail correspondence with Memory Map. You can enter a NGR to put a marker on the map but the NGR MUST be in ten digit format so if you...
The message <bgt0as+1ecs@eGroups.com> ... That's right. And in many parts of the country (Shropshire, Hereford, and Worcestershire to name three) Cider Houses...
Could it have something to do with the category of public house which was created in 1830 (Wellington's Beer House Act) whereby licences could be issued at the...
Dr. Iain C. Taylor
mapman@...
Aug 7, 2003 10:01 pm
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Short answer: yes, beer-only licences were created by this Act of 1830; the category disappeared with the Licensing Act of 1961. R.O. On Thu, 07 Aug 2003...
Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Aug 8, 2003 1:30 pm
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If you find yourself in London, Bristol or Manchester before the end of August, Stanfords are currently selling *all* OS maps with one pound off the usual...
Hi, I've just joined this group, and hope somebody will be able to help with a couple of questions... I am collecting maps of North Devon, of all dates, but...
Not a comprehensive answer, but: If there is a code bottom left of youir half-inch in the style '4039', that will be shorthand for 4000 copies printed in 1939....
Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Aug 11, 2003 10:28 am
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... have been updated and can be found at <A HREF="www.watsonlv.addr.com/os-maps.htm">www.watsonlv.addr.com/os-maps.htm</A> . (Don't forget the new Landranger...
Martyn, Re. Lynton & Barnstaple Railway maps: I have a quarter-inch O.S. atlas genuinely dated 1922, and it shows the line clearly in use. The line is...
Hi Robin n case Martyn hasn't all the relevant facts to hand I give below an extract from the North Devon section of the Gazetteer of Disused Lines of the...
Ralph Rawlinson
ralph@...
Aug 11, 2003 9:14 pm
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Thanks to those who responded with answers to my questions - much appreciated. If anyone is interested in the goings on at Woody Bay, we have two web sites, at...
... style '4039', ... Thanks for that info, Richard, The code is: 3037. M.36 R.32 which fits well with the L&B track being lifted by '36 - the map was bang up...
'M' is minor corrections, 'R' is 'road revision'. The background to all this is explained in Yolande Hodson, Popular maps, Charles Close Soc, 1999: more...
Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Aug 12, 2003 2:35 pm
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In mid-1523 Henry VIII, acting against Scottish advances toward Carlisle, "sent againe thither the valiant erle of Surray treasorer and Admyrall of England,...
can anybody expand on this for me please, and might there be such a thing as a boundary labourer. This arises from a query on another list and a discussion in...
The uninitiated - people like myself - might have imagined that a boundary labourer could be, for example, a person employed by the parish or other body to...
Alan Bowring
alan.bowring@...
Aug 17, 2003 7:55 am
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In Donegal north west Ireland, the divisions between the very small farms in this area, are to this day known as "march dykes". the only connection I know of...
My thanks to subscribers of both lists who responded with information about the Marches, whether "dry" or not. Somehow I did not consult the OED which...
Does anyone know where i can get definative maps of parish boundaries? I've looked everywhere and can't seem to find them at all. Ideally i'd like them...
This isn't a definitive "map" - but since the government put it there without spin - it might be definitive! Go to: http://www.magic.gov.uk/website/magic/ ...
