At the heart of Redbridge Museum is a unique collection of over 7000 objects, oral history and film. Once a week we will be selecting one object from Redbridge Museum’s collection to share with you online. This week we revisit one of our artifacts on display in our temporary exhibition a History of Redbridge in …
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You Are Here: A history of Redbridge in Maps an exhibition
Exciting news for all you history buffs! Our Museum's Map exhibition has been extended to run until Saturday 14th June 2014! Take a journey with ‘A history of Redbridge in Maps’ back through space and time to discover over 2,000 years of local history. The fascinating story of Redbridge is told through a range of beautiful maps. Look …
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Redbridge Museum – Map of the week
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) …
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
The earliest maps of the local area date to the mid 1500s. Historically, Ilford, Wanstead and Woodford were part of the County of Essex not London. This was the case until 1965, when the current 32 London boroughs, including Redbridge were created.In 1570 Christopher Saxon began a survey of the whole of England and Wales …
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 …
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