Old maps

[RAF96]

Got to agree there Rog.
The other site I can’t find had a series of timed maps, now, then and a long time ago.
Rob

[IanS]

I've just had a look at that site and found they use a mapping company that has things wrong!

Compare OpenStreetMap with the google map of the same area and you will see Parkside Crescent and Heathway have become the same street on OpenStreetMap whereas Heathway ends at the shops and becomes Parkside Cresc (actually it's the other way round, as Parkside Cresc. was built pre-war and Heathway some time later after the war (my mother lived in Parkside Cresc. from 1938 (or 39) until she married in 1953 and both her parents continued to live there until they died, in the 1980's. I stayed with them for prolonged periods due to my ill health as a child.

Local knowledge can be useful at times when modelling as sometimes even published data on the net is wrong!

[Walkingthedog]

Have to make sure I don’t look at that part of the map then. What part of the country is it?

[IanS]

North East England.

Just north east of Murton referred to by RAF96

I went back and looked further - a number of the background maps use the same incorrect data for street names.

[Walkingthedog]

Well I think it’s great. Nice to see the footpaths and field boundaries that used to pass through my house.

[IanS]

I know I live on a pit heap!

[Walkingthedog]

Our neighbours live in a gravel pit, in fact there were a lot around here.

[Rog (RJ)]

I live on what was farmland. When my parents moved here, boxing day 1952, there was a barn about 50 yards up the road which the builders were using for storage, the barn is visible on the old maps. One day my parents went into town and when they came home the barn had been demolished and the site totally cleared. It remained unused for about 10 years but is now the site of maisonettes and a block of garages.

[HarryUK]

I live on what was farmland. When my parents moved here, boxing day 1952, there was a barn about 50 yards up the road which the builders were using for storage, the barn is visible on the old maps. One day my parents went into town and when they came home the barn had been demolished and the site totally cleared. It remained unused for about 10 years but is now the site of maisonettes and a block of garages.

Very interesting, I found the site of my parents house years before it was built, and also quite good detail for late C19th early C20th layout of my home town station. With engine shed, cattle pen, timber yard, and viaduct, it's infinitely more interesting than any configuration that has exited in the last 70 or 80 yrs. Unfortunately the maps aren't dated so I can only guess how old the section I'm looking at is, by the absence of things. So in my case no later than 1920's and probably more likely the 1880s or 90s.

So, thanks for the link, very enjoyable to play with, I can imagine a lot of layout builders will find it so too.

[HarryUK]

Subsequent research suggests the map I was looking at dates btn 1910 & 1930, which from my point of view is close enough