You can set the sort order of messages? Just click on the link in the date column. Your preferences will be remembered, so you don't have to do it again when you return.
Hi, I am in the process of transcribing Parish Registers and would like to link the entries to an address - the PR's cover Barnsley in the former West Riding...
(Although Richard may have a fuller answer...) I would start with the Barnsley Library's local collection (if they have one), and if no joy there then move on...
Yes, I would try the local studies library: I only visited the Barnsley one once, about six years ago, but it appeared to have a 'civilised' collection! I seem...
Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Nov 3, 2008 11:35 am
2911
Please can anyone put me in touch with a former OS employee, Mr G Foster or his family. Mr Foster (S3 Training Branch) wrote an article in OS News, March...
Information from the November OS catalogue has been added to the summary lists (v4.31) and may be found at http://www.watsonlv.addr.com/os-maps.htm . Regards ...
Thanks for your continued hard work on this Les! I see that a new Explorer Sheet 20 is due "B2 (1/09)" but can I ask when that might actually appear in the...
... It should turn up during January next (as promised on the tin) but sheets are known to appear in a the month previous to that advertised. More often...
Thanks Les! I am particularly keen to see it as I have been working through a really helpful contact in Devon CC to try and correct oddities on the Devon OS...
A general comment: it is one thing for OS to announce a new edition, but quite another for booksellers to exchange old stock for new, for which reason I've...
Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Nov 10, 2008 2:45 pm
2918
Might be of interest. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/11/the_mapping_mess_google_ v_os.html Best wishes, David Archer The Pentre, Kerry, Newtown,...
Hello All I have just acquired a GSGS 3906 1/25000 map of the Catterick area in Yorkshire. It covers parts of the following sheets 44/52 SW & SE and 44/50 NW &...
I have 2 old copies of the 1:63360 scale Aldershot command map. One dated 1934 just has the military 1 km square grid and the outline of the Command area...
To clarify: GSGS 3906 was the military 1:25,000 series of UK and Ireland, and GSGS 3907 was the military 1:63,360 of England and Wales: both used the Modified...
Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Nov 21, 2008 3:32 pm
2923
Adrian Go the the Access to Archives (A2A) home page, type "GSGS 3906" into the search box for a list of the special GSGS 3906 sheets held by the Charles Close...
Roger Hellyer
roger.hellyer@...
Nov 23, 2008 12:19 pm
2924
Many thanks to all who offered suggestions about the above map. Roger's pointer below looks promising and I will try and pursue this. Does anyone else out...
Members of this list may be interested in the following book, which was published on 2nd Oct: "Maps of My Life" by Guy Browning, publisher Square Peg, £12.99,...
I read this one a couple of weeks ago and enjoyed it hugely. Don't expect though to find a lot about maps in it as there isn't a lot about maps in it. The...
Information from the December OS catalogue has been added to the summary lists (v4.32) and may be found at http://www.watsonlv.addr.com/os-maps.htm . Regards ...
Advance plug for mine.... Â http://www.amazon.co.uk/Map-Addict-Mike-Parker/dp/0007300840/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228345881&sr=8-1 Â I might mention...
Dear Mike, I hope you realise that the Amazon page has the following message for those looking for your book: Customers Viewing This Page May Be Interested in...
Hello all Does anyone know of an online sheet index for old 6 inch mapping for Wales? Many thanks in anticipation Adrian James [Non-text portions of this...
Did you hear the map man being interviewed on "Excess baggage" on Saturday? It's still available on Listen Again on the internet ... www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 and...
... Is there anyone who can answer a question I have about early OS surveying and mapping? In particular I would like to know if it is documented anywhere...
Thanks - I will reply direct to him. Something else for a third edition of the Concise Guide! Richard On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:09:48 +0000 Peter Stubbs ... can...
Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Dec 18, 2008 11:11 am
2935
The answer to this is not entirely straightforward: but then it does concern OS history! It is not really documented concisely anywhere, so the following will...
Oliver, Richard
R.R.Oliver@...
Dec 18, 2008 5:13 pm
2936
Hello Richard, Thank you very much indeed for a masterly account of this period of OS history. I am glad Mr.Chilton asked the question and even more glad to ...
I found Richard's reply fascinating too as it explains some sheet dates of the late 1880s 1:2500 that I have. I also tried to see a rationale for the order of...
Thanks to those who have expressed thanks! I don't know any particular rationale for the timing of the revision of East Anglia in the mid 1900s: it is possible...
