[THREAD EDITED TO LEAVE LINKS ONLY DUE TO FILES SIZES BEING TOO LARGE - CLICK ON THE LINKS TO VIEW] - Kev
Its time for Liverpool to get the “mad map man” treatment. I collect maps of allsorts, but have a particular interest in the South Lancs area. The collection grows all the time, but space is running out! My scanning skills aren’t too good, so bear with me. The digital data images are far clearer.
So, take a journey through time !
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/2530/1849id1.jpg
1st series One Inch
Not an original, a facsimilie of the area from 1849 with railways inserted to 1890
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/7116/1903wh1.jpg
Likewise, a reprint from 1903
1889
These are excerpts from the first edition County Series maps of Lancashire- I have 2 disks of scans which cover the whole of Lancashire south of Preston. I am lucky in having access to an A0 printer at work, so I can print out complete sheets. Originals of this series tend to be very mucky and well used- I had the option of having the whole set of Hampshire once, but settled for scanning them. I also have most of west Cheshire.They are a fascinating record of the area in the late Victorian age. Any requests for specific areas to be shown, ill try to oblige.
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/4...rkhouseka9.jpg
Workhouse area
http://img307.imageshack.us/img307/1218/dockji9.jpg
The Pier Head
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/9...estreetat5.jpg
Around Lime St Station
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/5219/princesua0.jpg
Princes Park
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/9513/runcorncx5.png
Runcorn
http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/8881/toxtethhs4.jpg
Appaling housing in Toxteth
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/9657/hamiltonei4.png
Birkenhead
1913
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/4176/1913pw7.jpg
One of favourites is this 1913 One Inch map, which covers an area from Southport to Chester and across to Wigan. Possibly Liverpool in its prime. Note the coastal batteries at Seaforth and Perch Rock.
1947 One Inch
http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/820/1947tb3.jpg
I like the style of this series, we begin to see the corporation estates being built.
10k 56
http://img328.imageshack.us/img328/5...oolhistxz8.jpg
This is from the 1956 1:10,000 mapping of Liverpool
1964
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http://img335.imageshack.us/img335/1247/stgeorgecu1.jpg
These are dated 1964, but revision wasn’t too frequent then, so the actual survey may have been carried out 10 years earlier.
One Inch 1968
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/5659/1968we7.jpg
Looks more familiar
One Inch 1972
http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/5013/1972im7.jpg
Seaforth Dock is added
60s / 70s 25k
From the “Provisional” 1:25,00 First series, the forerunner of the Orange “Explorer” maps we see today.
http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/2268/25knortheg9.jpg
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/5977/25southvm1.jpg
1976 25K
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/2487/1976fk1.jpg
This map makes Liverpool look terrible, look at all the slum clearance areas!
http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/5926/untitledue3.jpg
Recent 10k
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/2...rpoolbwqa4.jpg
Recent again, using polygonised Landline
Hope you enjoyed it!
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