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Re: Leisure maps summary lists

Lez Watson — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:45:37 GMT

Information from the July catalogue has been added to the summary lists and may be found at http://www.watsonlv.addr.com/os-maps.htm . (And a very thin month

Re: War Memorial at Backbarrow, Cumbria

David Andrews — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:56:34 GMT

I think you will find that the ONBs contain only records of the form and spelling of Distinctive names, that is names that refer to particular named objects or

Re: War Memorials, ONBs and 'field notes'

Richard Oliver — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:55:34 GMT

The surviving Object Name Books of the OS are in the National Archives [Public Record] Office: all the surviving County Series ones for England and wales were

Re: War Memorial at Backbarrow, Cumbria

Yolande Hodson — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:25:46 GMT

The ONBs record authorities for the spelling and form of names rather than abbreviations so you may not find the expanded information in this source. Yo

Re: War Memorial at Backbarrow, Cumbria

John Hobden — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:10:44 GMT

During the recasting of the 1:2500 series into National Grid plans in the 1950s, 60s and 70s the field surveyors carried a book called the Object Name Book

Re: War Memorial at Backbarrow, Cumbria

Ian L — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:11:28 GMT

Hi guys! Thanks for all the replies re: Backbarrow. My mate Rod, a map anorak(!!), has a complete collection of OS maps for Backbarrow but he is at the Dent

Re: War Memorial at Backbarrow, Cumbria

Oliver, Richard — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:25:12 GMT

This is interesting. It may be that 'memorial' in the commemorative sense was not much used before c.1914, and so the OS persisted with 'Monument'. Richard

OS Scotland Tourist Map

Ed Fielden — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:45:24 GMT

Hello all, I was intrigued recently at the release of the re-branded OS 'Tourist Map' of Scotland at 1:500,000 scale (ISBN 9780319251102). This was published

Re: War Memorial at Backbarrow, Cumbria

Jack Kirby — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:38:05 GMT

The South African War memorial unveiled in 1906 in Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham (SP068839) is marked

Re: War Memorial at Backbarrow, Cumbria

Richard Oliver — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:28:14 GMT

Weighing Machines and their surrogate 'WM' are quite common from the 1840s onwards (they were forerunners of the weighbridges which are still common on

Re: War Memorial at Backbarrow, Cumbria

Ian L — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:14:38 GMT

Ha! Perhaps a Eureka moment! Tho' I think the words 'War Memorial' are on some of the earlier maps. I need to check them out from a friend's extensive

Re: War Memorial at Backbarrow, Cumbria

Yolande Hodson — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:51:38 GMT

The intials 'WM' on an OS plan stand for 'Weighing Machine/s'. Yo Hodson ... From: stublick To: ordnancemaps@... Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008

War Memorial at Backbarrow, Cumbria

stublick — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:31:08 GMT

Hi! My interest is in war Memorials. On some of the earlier editions (c1870 - 1950)of the OS maps there is a War Memorial indicated in fromt of the blast

Re: OS maps and GPS data

Nicholas Verge — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:55:39 GMT

All, The point raised previously about OS maps my indeed be valid. However, many consumer users of GPS recievers are generally unaware of the issues associated

Re: OS maps and GPS data

John Hobden — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:51:59 GMT

The technique used for producing readable small scale maps when hand drawn used to be known as 'generalisation' and included widening of roads and the