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Shropshire Seagull

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Seagull's Return said:
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My dad enjoys reminiscing about the good old days when death and terror rained from the sky… he always says, “I had a good war”😁 (he was 11 in 1940, all very exciting). One of those red dots very nearly got him and those of his family who weren’t off being shot at elsewhere, mind.
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My mum lived at 2 Franklin Road, number 1 took a direct hit (shown on that map). Luckily, she had already been evacuated to Yorkshire. She was 7-12 in the war years. Her dad, my grandpa was an ARP warden.
My Dad was 12-17 and remembers all the kids diving under the classroom tables at Varndean Grammar when the air raid siren went off.
What a childhood!!
 




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Bodian

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Ph.D study into the dialectical names for streams. Best off clicking the link if you want to look at the map properly - and there's quite a few more in there.

www.atlasobscura.com

Mapping the U.K.'s Many, Many Names for Streams

One man's brook is another man's allt. Or nant. Or gill. Or burn.
www.atlasobscura.com www.atlasobscura.com

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Notters

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Oh this thread is right up my street, annoying I missed it before! Found this the other day, but it doesn't have a date on it - can anyone date it looking at the roads etc? (There are some on ebay but that's cheating and they may be wrong!)
 

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Bodian

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Notters said:
Oh this thread is right up my street, annoying I missed it before! Found this the other day, but it doesn't have a date on it - can anyone date it looking at the roads etc? (There are some on ebay but that's cheating and they may be wrong!)
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Are there any letters in the bottom left/right-hand corner? Like A.LU or similar?
 






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Bodian

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Notters said:
Nope! It just says 'This map is based upon the Ordnance Survey Map with the sanction of the Controller of H.M. Stationery Office'.
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That's a shame. Most of the Geographia Maps I have seen have. I had one that M.BA in the bottom corner - which is March 1948 (the letters are from CUMBERLAND - which you replace with 1234567890), so I suspect it's the same era.

I can just about make out on your map that it says they were at 167 Fleet Street? Which dates it to 1942-1964 - before 1942 they were at No 55, and after 1964 they were at No 114.
 




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Notters said:
Oh this thread is right up my street, annoying I missed it before! Found this the other day, but it doesn't have a date on it - can anyone date it looking at the roads etc? (There are some on ebay but that's cheating and they may be wrong!)
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Look like it was published in X from a google search: https://www.abebooks.co.uk/maps/Country-Round-BRIGHTON-Footpaths-Bus-Routes/10231227828/bd


Edit: just seen the bit about cheating. date removed from my post but you can see the answer on that link
 




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Mellor 3 Ward 4

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Seagull's Return said:
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My dad enjoys reminiscing about the good old days when death and terror rained from the sky… he always says, “I had a good war”😁 (he was 11 in 1940, all very exciting). One of those red dots very nearly got him and those of his family who weren’t off being shot at elsewhere, mind.
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Thanks for posting that.

My mother-in-law, born in 1935 says she remembers the bombs falling on Brighton - she'll love looking at this (if she can make it out, her eyesight is not the best now...)
 




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maffew

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That would make for a very different EPL list of clubs.

Although ‘Beverley and Hull Albion’ has a nice ring to it.

Canterbury City would be bigger too. Probably to be known as ’The Caants’
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I believe worcester, on this map, may be the biggest city (possibly one of the only) to have not had a team in the football league.
 






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Bodian

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Bodian said:
Definitely earlier - your's only cost a shilling. That one an ABE books cost 1/6'.

Also - the seller obviously has no idea either - as they have just said c.1950s.
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@Notters

Now then, this is interesting. It has M.BA in the corner (like mine), so it's March 1948. But it has a 1/6' sticker on the front. Being a sticker would imply that it was repriced sometime before sale - so I would bet that under the sticker it's 1/-. So, it looks like late 1940s these maps were 1/-. So, I would go with that. And it makes sense actually - as it was post-war that the boom in recreational walking really began.

www.ebay.co.uk

Bognor Ramblers Map, Geographia, No 5, vintage | eBay

This is a fold out paper map of the country round Bognor – actually Bognor Regis in the south of England. It was published by Geographia Ltd and is described on the card front cover as a Geographia Ramblers’ Map.
www.ebay.co.uk

Although I guess the price difference could actually be cloth v paper rather than inflation....

There's one of Shoreham here - with letters in the bottom right, but they're too blurry to define.

Having said all the above - here's one of Worthing. Also M.BA (1948), but 1/6


I might give up......

[edit - I don't know whay it say's 'pardon our interruption' - the links seem to work]
 








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