ITEMS FOR SALE
ALL MAPS ARE BRAND NEW AND IN SUPERB CONDITION
These maps are taken from the 1/2500 plans and reproduced my Alan Godfrey at about 15 inches to the mile, they are highly detailed, even showing individual houses and covers an area of about one and a half square miles.
These maps will provide hours of fascination for historians, transport buffs and genealogists or for anyone who just wants to see what their area looked like in the days gone by and are terribly addictive....you have been warned !!
They are just £2.25 Each
U.K P+P is .95p for any number of Maps sent out at the same time
Europe P+P is £1.60 for any number of Maps sent out at the same time
Rest Of The World P+P is £2.00 for any number of items sent out at the same time
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Ordnance survey Map, West Bromwich 1902
This detailed, busy map covers most of the town of West Bromwich. Coverage stretches from Bond Street and St John's church northward to West Bromwich Workhouse, and from Claypit Lane eastward to Dartmouth Park.
Features include most of town centre with individual buildings neatly delineated, St John's church, Christ Church, West Bromwich District Hospital, Market Hall, brewery, printing works, Mayers Green area, St Philip's church, Lodge Flour Mills, GWR railway with West Bromwich station, Swan Village Junction Station (at top of map), Oak House, Lamberts End area, Guns Village area, Carters Green, old coal shafts, brick works, Tantany Colliery (disused), Lyndon, The Cronehills, St Andrew's church, Dartmouth Park etc. On the reverse we include a list of private residents from a contemporary directory.
Ordnance survey Map, West Bromwich (North) 1885
his detailed, early map is taken from the OS First Edition plan for the area. It covers the northern part of West Bromwich, with coverage stretching from Churchfield northward to Hatley Heath, westward to Blacklake. The main urban area is Hill Top, in the NW corner.
Features include Hill Top with St James church, reading room, Balls Hill Farm, Albert Street Iron Works, Wallface Colliery (disused), tramway, stretch of GWR railway (but no stations), Blacklake Colliery, old shafts, Borough Gas Works, Oakwood Farm, White's Farm Colliery, Waterloo Iron Works, Ridgacre Branch Canal, Halford Branch Canal, Jesson's Branch Canal, Hall End Colliery (in centre of map), Hall End area, Shrubbery Colliery, Churchfield House, West Bromwich Cemetery, infectious diseases hospital, Hateley Heath area with St Mary's Mission Chapel etc. On the reverse we include extracts from an 1888 directory.
