Maps of Liverpool

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[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 !

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1st series One Inch

Not an original, a facsimilie of the area from 1849 with railways inserted to 1890

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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.

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Workhouse area

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The Pier Head

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Around Lime St Station

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Princes Park

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Runcorn

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Appaling housing in Toxteth

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Birkenhead

1913
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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
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I like the style of this series, we begin to see the corporation estates being built.

10k 56
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This is from the 1956 1:10,000 mapping of Liverpool

1964
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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
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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.

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1976 25K
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/2487/1976fk1.jpg
This map makes Liverpool look terrible, look at all the slum clearance areas!

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Recent 10k

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Recent again, using polygonised Landline

Hope you enjoyed it!