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How to beat the problem of traffic
Continuing a series of posts from the Liverpool Daily Post’s Changing Face of Ormskirk supplement is this map of Ormskirk Town Centre showing plans for pedestrianisation. The problems facing Ormskirk are similar to those facing most towns large and small in this country – problems created and aggravated to a large degree by the motor…
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Changing Face of Lancashire Map
© 1968 Liverpool Daily Post. Based on the Ordnance Survey map; Crown Copyright reserved. Today’s post also comes from “The Changing Face of Ormskirk”, a supplement published in 1968 in the Liverpool Daily Post. Looking at an older map of the region shows just how much has changed over the last 40 years. When this…
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Sculpture Found!
As Margie pointed out and Howard Turpin from Learning Services spotted, the Unknown Sculpture can be found in Southport and thanks to the scary wonders of Google Street View we can even see it! Update: I should have thought to look in Fiona Montgomery’s book earlier as it tells us (almost) everything we want to…
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OS OpenData Street View
If you’re not a map geek you may want to move along now. For those that are left, above is a map of Edge Hill taken from Ordnance Survey’s Street View product. On 1st April, OS released OpenData under a liberal attribution licence so anyone can use it. The detail on some of the maps…
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To Ireland; To Scotland; To London!
It’s been far too long since we’ve had a decent post about maps! This one comes from the 1992 prospectus that described a region of contrasts and has all the quirky features we love to pick apart! Just the one road is present – the M6 showing how to get to Scotland and London but…
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Edgehill Mountain Park, San Francisco, California
People have now started telling me about other Edgehills and Edge Hills they’ve heard of and today’s hat tip goes to Andy Butler for pointing me to Edgehill Mountain Park in the Golden State. Edgehill Mountain Park might be stretching the definition of mountain a little but it looks interesting nonetheless. A little searching led…
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Durning Road 1908
I’ve mentioned Durning Road – the original site of Edge Hill College – a few times but now we get to look at maps! Thanks to EDINA’s Historic Digimap service which Edge Hill subscribes to we can see old maps of the area. The map above is from 1908 and shows how the old tram…
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Ormskirk in 1609
A very special guest map this week that doesn’t even feature Edge Hill. Above is a map of Ormskirk from 1609. The original is held by Ormskirk Library and this scan is available on the Lancashire County Council website. This map explains why Aughton Street and Moor Street are much wider than the other two…
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Give Way
Time once again for my regular look into maps of Edge Hill and today we feature a map which is still in use. That means I have to be careful not to offend anyone by picking holes in its design and bizarre choices of locations, but fortunately that’s not a problem as I really like…
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Frequent electric train MERSEYRAIL
Keeping up the weekly posts of maps from years gone by is this lovely example from the back cover of the 1983 prospectus. It’s similar in design to last week’s example from 1989 but with even less concern that roads should go where they actually are. The appearance of St Helens and Warrington on this…