Information from the July catalogue has been added to the summary lists and may be found at http://www.watsonlv.addr.com/os-maps.htm . (And a very thin month...
Work is almost complete on a new edition of this historical map, and an advance image can be seen at www.canalmaps.net/HCM2.htm This may be of interest to CCS...
Regarding my earlier message, my apologies for the broken link in the website preventing access to the image. This has now been repaired. Richard Dean ... ...
Richard, Congratulations on your Canals of Birmingham map. I am in total awe of the amount of effort that must have gone into researching the locations shown, ...
Hmmm, this one gets more interesting. The 1973 10:000 should have been derived from the national grid 1:2500 revisions c1960s when surveyors took a field...
Very interesting! I think one needs to give due weight to context. A war memorial is usually a very public statement, and even if it is on 'private premises',...
Richard Oliver
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Jul 8, 2008 7:32 am
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Hi Ian, ... It's strange that the OS use the term "weighing machine" because such a machine out of doors and large enough to be shown on a map is normally...
I suspect that retention of 'Weighing Machine' is an instance of OS retaining a more formal or more old-fashioned usage. Another example is 'Omnibus Depot'...
Richard Oliver
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Jul 8, 2008 4:00 pm
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Hi to everyone, I`m looking for a 1930`s ordnance survey Map of Thurleigh to include the Mill Road area.. Regards James...
Is anyone here watching the OS (One Square) game on RMweb? This 1 km square has just been identified by Andrew Williams -- from anywhere in Great Britain -- in...
Item spotted in The Sunday Times dated 20 July 2008 Michael Cobb, 91, from Plymtree, Devon, has become the oldest person to be awarded a PhD by Cambridge...
Further to my last message (see below) I now have a little more information on the unusual red-cover Scotland 'Tourist Map', published in March 2008 and...
Hello! I stumbled across a very old looking earthworks in a rough semi-circle in Lanarkshire (NS 855 242) and was intrigued as to what it is - it does look...
A closer look at modern maps of the wider area and the mapping on the old-maps site shows a striking correlation between features labelled 'Rec' on the latter...
I would have to guess at "receptacle", which could come from either English or Scots: "Receptakle, -akill, -acle, n. a. A place into, or in, which a thing ...
Might it be 'Rems' for 'remains'? Yo Hodson ... From: David D Miller To: ordnancemaps@... Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 9:24 PM Subject:...
Yolande Hodson
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Jul 22, 2008 6:47 pm
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Next CCS visit is on Monday 25 August (Bank Holiday Monday) to KMS (the Danish National Survey) in Copenhagen. We will hear about the history of topographical...
John I think you already have me booked on this visit, but if not yes, and I am happy to stay for Tuesday visit. G. ... [Non-text portions of this message...
Only as a footnote to Ed's excellent adventure, here are the notes I made from the OS publication catalogues. **Notes from Leisure Map Catalogues regarding the...
Extract from Express & Star newspaper dated Friday 1st August 2008. The Black Country is finally to be recognised on Ordnance Survey maps after a campaign led...
In answer to David's final question: indeed there are such areas. Why not 'The Home Counties'? . . . or again in South Wales - 'The Valleys'. Perhaps OS...
At present I am taking a display of current and old / reproduction maps to various heritage events, the trials at Gibside and Kemble in the last month were...
Information from the August catalogue has been added to the summary lists and may be found at http://www.watsonlv.addr.com/os-maps.htm . Regards Lez...
A few places are still available on the following visits, as previously announced in Sheetlines : Monday 25 August : KMS (the Danish 'Ordnance Survey'),...
John Regrettably I am still doubtful for Conwy. If my personal plans change I will certainly come as a last minuter, assuming places still available. But can...
John The AIDU, Northolt visit seemed to have passed me by! Can you give me any details as I would most probably like to go to this. Regards Hugh Brookes (654) ...
