This week our Map of the Week takes us twelve miles round London. This detailed map was printed and published by Fairburn’s a family firm based in London. Between the 1790s and 1850s, they produced a vast output of map prints and popular booklets. This circular map reaches Teddington in the south west, then (clockwise) …
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Redbridge Museum – Map Of The Week
This week our Map of the Week is a terrestrial pocket globe dated from the 1800’s. The globe shows the earth while its spherical case shows formations of stars known as constellations. Australia is shown on the globe as ‘New Holland’ . It was known as this by Europeans until the name was changed to Australia …
Redbridge Museum – Map of the week
This wonderfully detailed and beautifully drawn map carefully notes all the ‘important’ people who live in the large houses of the area. Woodford was home to many merchants at this time who had links to Britain’s expanding empire. Title – Woodford Associated Dates - 1835 Location – On display- Redbridge Museum, Central Library 1st Floor Opening …
Redbridge Museum – Map of the week
This week our Map of the Week takes us to Valentines Park. It was opened in 1898 after Ilford Council bought land from the owners of Valentines Mansion. At this time Ilford was a fast developing suburb and the Council wanted recreation space for its residents. The Council gradually bought up more of the estate …
Redbridge Museum – Map of the week
Cycling was hugely popular as a cheap leisure pursuit in the early 1900s. Specialist maps, such as these, were used to plan trips out into the Essex countryside for local people. This map has been published by the Hovis bread company – presumably hungry cyclists would have packed sandwiches with them! Title – Essex Cycling …
Redbridge Museum – Map of the week
Our Map of the Week is unusual in that it is an escape map for British forces during World War II. During this time around 1 million escape maps were made on behalf of the British armed forces. These were issued to soldiers, seamen and airmen in case they found themselves behind enemy lines. They were …
Redbridge Museum – Map of the week
This week our map of the week gives us a fascinating insight into the geology of Ilford. The map was produced by the Ilford Borough Council surveyor’s department in 1948. It features a hand coloured survey drawn over a standard printed map. It was used by the Surveyor to show areas of Ilford that were safe to …
Redbridge Museum – Map of the week
This time in Map Of The Week we continue with an insight into what is now Fairlop Waters. As our map of the week shows, during the Second World War it was a Royal Air Force airfield. The map was created in 2000 by local historian David Martin, based on research and aerial photographs of the site. The airfield was operational …
Redbridge Museum – Map Of The Week
This week's Map of the Week is a plan for Fairlop that never came to light. In 1937 the City of London purchased 1,000 acres in order to build a civic airport. But with the threat of the Second World War these plans were rejected. By the 1940’s the land was used as an airfield …
Redbridge Museum – Map of the week
To continue celebrating the opening of our new exhibition A History of Redbridge in Maps we are sharing a range of images. The second instalment of our range is a map produced by Ilford Urban District Council. This map highlights the land use in 1925, and sits alongside a present-day land use map created by …
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