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The new Past & Present Map series by Cassini Publishing, which provides you with four views of the same area from the early-19th century to the present day on a single map sheet, is growing faster than we can keep up with. The maps are taken from Ordnance Survey one-Inch and 1:50,000 maps, then digitally enhanced so that maps from the first half of the 19th century, late-19th century and 1920s can be shown alongside a present day OS map covering the same area. We have just been sent the latest maps for the West Midlands. Other new maps cover areas around the M4 corridor between West London and Newbury and along the south coast from Portsmouth to Bournemouth. Obtainable in all good book shops or on www.cassinimaps.co.uk. Maps of the Witham Fens from the 13th until the 19th Centuries, totalling 48 in total, are to be published in a single volume by Lincoln Record Society in June 2008. They have just launched a pre-publication offer enabling you to buy the volume for £22.50 plus £3 p&p instead of the post-publication price of £30 plus p&p. The maps will be accompanied by a 30 page introductory essay, with 50 pages in full-colour, 80 pages in black & white and a 50 page cartobibliography. Lincoln Record Society, Lincoln Cathedral Library, Minster Yard, Lincoln LN2 1PX, www.lincoln-record-society.org.uk. Online donations of images can now be made to Camden Local Studies & Archives Centre in London. The Centre already has over 40,000 images of the area in its collections but they still have gaps which need filling — hence this innovative appeal to the public for help. The Centre says ‘We hold many photographs of the area for the early years of the 20th century, but we have very little representing the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s and 1950s’. Contact CLS&AC, Holborn Library, 32–38 Theobolds Road, London WC1X 8PA, tel: 020 7974 6342. From Camden Backtracks No.18, Nov 2007, www.camden.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/leisure/local-history/. |
7 December 2007 |
