| Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 18:56 - May 4 with 340 views | GeoffSentence |
| Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 16:21 - May 4 by NotSure |
Really interesting. Can't see any evidence though of a football ground at Portman Road in the 1896 map. Wiki tells me there used to be a Cricket pitch but can't see that either. |
That was one of the first things that I looked for. I don't think there would have been much in the way of buildings for the football ground or indeed the cricket ground in those days. There is a plan of Portman Road in 1888/89 in The Men Who Made The Town, and that is basically a big open space with a cricket pavillion in the middle. The pavillion being in roughly the same position as that building marked in the middle of the open space on this map, so it looks like not nuch had changed in the 7 years between. |  |
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| Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 19:10 - May 4 with 333 views | Trequartista |
I ventured onto those links a couple of years ago. Apologies if already mentioned but i believe you can overlay the old map of your choice with the current google or openstreetmap map and use the slider to merge one with the other? |  |
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| Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 19:21 - May 4 with 331 views | GeoffSentence |
| Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 19:10 - May 4 by Trequartista |
I ventured onto those links a couple of years ago. Apologies if already mentioned but i believe you can overlay the old map of your choice with the current google or openstreetmap map and use the slider to merge one with the other? |
That is a top tip. More hours will be wasted. | |
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| Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 19:24 - May 4 with 328 views | Guthrum |
| Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 15:24 - May 4 by GeoffSentence |
Those 3D topographic maps are something special. |
We did that in geography lessons, using those poystyrene ceiling tiles for each contour layer. Takes ages to cut it all out. |  |
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| Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 19:24 - May 4 with 334 views | Trequartista |
| Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 19:21 - May 4 by GeoffSentence |
That is a top tip. More hours will be wasted. |
Yes it still works. Click on overlays on the nls site. Choose 1940s Map. Choose Background Map. Use Opacity slider to wipe out Chantry. Other post-war surburban estates are available. [Post edited 4 May 2020 19:26]
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| Any fellow map enthusiasts on here? on 05:37 - May 5 with 284 views | IPS_wich |
That 1896 map is something really surreal. It pre-dates all of the council estates - no Chantry, Castle Hill, Holy Wells or Whitton. Most of the area heading towards Copleston is there though (up Spring Rd, Valley Rd and Woodbridge Rd).
Reminds me of my A Level Geography back in 1991. I had to do a project over the two years of my A-Levels and chose to map the Ipswich Town Centre every five years from 1915 - 1990; literally logging every single retail outlet to look for trends in retail and where the retail centre ( I think it was called the 'Locus') was. I was able to log the massive shift in the 70s/80s from local shops to national chains and then the impact of the Tower Ramparts shopping centre when it opened.
Spent hours in the town records office on Norwich Rd crawling over OS maps and Kelly's Directories (whilst educating myself in the REM back catalogue). Very happy days - got a damn good mark as well. |  | | |
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