• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

Any cartophiles among us ?

Excellent, Roger. Thanks for sharing that. I've already found one building referenced on our village green that I didn't know existed.
 
Very interesting. Good post Rog. The 1888 OS map is the oldest listed for us and shows what appears to be different orientation for what is now our house, which is puzzling as we have an old estate map from 1680 that shows the property orientations much as they are today. There is also a very large irregular pond on the OS map, that is much smaller today.
 
Thanks Roger. I've already spent many happy hours on the time machine that is the NLS site, but the Streetlist option is new to me and looks a simpler way to start. (It took me a while to get used to the necessary subtleties of the ways the NLS collection is organised.)

Down this way, we are lucky enough to have the luxury of a project which digitised a big collection of local maps, many of them much earlier than the OS. It also includes lots of historic images so you can look (for example) at an 18th century map of Bristol and pick out contemporary paintings of the buildings.

Know Your Place

Know Your Place - explore your neighbourhood through historical maps, images and linked information
maps.bristol.gov.uk maps.bristol.gov.uk
 
Even more interesting are historic aerial photos.

historicengland.org.uk

Aerial Photo Explorer – Over 400,000 aerial photos in Historic England's digitised collections | Historic England

Explore England's changing landscapes through historic aerial photography, showcasing the growth and transformations of urban and rural areas.
historicengland.org.uk historicengland.org.uk

My house in in the middle of these brickworks, taken 20th may 1938.

historicengland.org.uk

EPW057128 - Aerial Photo | Historic England

Explore the aerial photo collection
historicengland.org.uk historicengland.org.uk

Pete
 
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