One For Map Nuts

Took the Smalls to meet up with Jax and batch of schoolfriends at the cinema yesterday. Whilst hanging around waiting, I added to my Geograph collection, had an overpriced Starbucks coffee and browsed around Borders shop.

I love maps, new, old, doesn’t matter, they fascinate me. I hadn’t really spent any time looking at Cassini maps before, although I think I have seen a few on bookshop shelves.Their Past and Present maps are fascinating:

Each Past & Present map is centred on a city or town and covers an area of 15km x 15km using four Ordnance Survey mapping series to cover four different periods: the mid 19th century, the late 19th century, the1920s and the present-day. All four maps cover exactly the same area.