Just been reading "Long Life" by Nigel Nicolson - one time publisher, and son of Harold and Vita of Sissinghurst in Kent. On page 225 I was intrigued to read...
Hello, I would be very grateful if someone could please enlighten me as to how the contours on the OS 1:25000 Provisional Series (AKA 1st Series) sheets were...
... I think you'll find they were simply 'copied' from the one inch. The 'very' provisional ones the far N of Scotland were bizarre, as they were simply the...
The 1:25,000 Provisional/First Series used such contours as were available on the County Series 6-inch, supplemented by interpolated contours. The...
Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Apr 3, 2006 9:56 am
2119
Hello I have just been browsing the National Archives Catalogue and have come across the document classes WO 401: (example of description for one file is: WO...
Most of these classes above about WO 400 have only come to the PRO/'National Archives' [which country's?!] quite recently, and further accessions are expected,...
Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Apr 4, 2006 8:21 am
2121
These have been updated and may be found at http://www.watsonlv.addr.com/os-maps.htm . The flood of 1:25,000 'Active' maps has now almost abated, so we can ...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the ordnancemaps group. File : /wall and...
ordnancemaps@...
Apr 10, 2006 7:36 am
2123
... they please email him at niall.tower@... ... The Townland boundary marks around this (see Files on ordnancemaps) Martello Tower define its take, but I...
Peter Stubbs
pstubbs@...
Apr 10, 2006 7:41 am
2124
(1) The townland boundaries were recorded for civil rather than military purposes. (2) 'Face of Wall' indicates the route of the boundary of this point: it...
Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Apr 10, 2006 10:25 am
2125
These maps appear to be ordinary stock copies to which some sort of lamination/covering has been applied. I suspect that the only criteria is whether Access...
Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Apr 10, 2006 11:07 am
2126
Richard writes: "I suspect that the only criteria is whether Access Land is shown, if applicable" That doesn't explain the lack of my home sheet (#245) among...
Niall, The annotation "Face of Wall" on OSGB maps is a mereing for an administrative boundary, (parish, borough etc). I assume that the two Irish OS's use the...
Does anyone have a database or file of the different extents of the OS 1:50,000 sheets? Bottom-left, top-right corner grid references would be ideal, and some...
... Always intrigued by such a statement 'bench mark machine' So what is it? Does Mark want to know.... 1 How benchmarks were cut into walls? 2 How Flush...
A file of just that nature has just been posted at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rhb, and includes 1:25000 and Roadmaster maps. ... To help you stay safe and...
Hello, Yes, but we can't look at it unless we join the hillwalking group. I already belong to far too many Yahoo groups, and am loath to join more. Could the...
Bench-marks where generally placed on levelling lines, (lines joining up key bench-marks to create a national 'mesh' of BMs), included in this was to also join...
... more. ... I'm sure there would be no difficulty in briefly subscribing then unsubscribing from the group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rhb), and you may...
The Times today has an obituary for Major-General Brian Irwin, Director General of Ordnance Survey from 1969-1977. His work guided the course of OS's digital...
... I can't post the file to ordnancemaps, but I can e-mail it to anyone who wants it without having to join rhb - contact me off-list. It's a zipped Excel...
... <mark_bow32@y...> ... have ... transfer ... staff? ... I would like to know how the figure was obtained, for example B.M 242.5 does seem very presice for a...
You might want to have a look at: http://deformedweb.co.uk/trigs/data/2GLMain.htm which is a document about levelling in the early twentieth century, but also...
One of the nicest things about the man was the way he led the OS - the obituary say's that he encouraged staff to think of themselves as being part of a family...
A number of Charles Close Society members have expressed concern that they have not yet received the April issue of 'Sheetlines'. Thanks to heroic efforts by...
I bought the recent republication of Explorer 272 (Lincoln: edition A1) today, and find that the northern half of this double-sider is 'misprinted', in that...
Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
May 5, 2006 5:16 pm
2144
These have been updated and may be found at http://www.watsonlv.addr.com/os-maps.htm . Regards Lez Watson...
