Chester Memories: Bygone era city shown in Victorian map
A MAP of Chester in 1872 is the latest to be published in a series of almost 150 British Victorian towns.
Heritage Cartography's series is based on the first large scale surveys of the Ordnance Survey. In that year, Chester still bore its medieval roots as a walled market town set in a defensive crook of the River Dee. Apart from a large lead works, the industrial revolution has had little impact on the city.
The town was a strategic railway junction and distribution centre, as well as a rolling stock maintenance depot.
On the map, at both ends of the city lie two large buildings, which are the workhouses.
The map is available in local bookshops for £9.50.
Older/Newer
« Ellesmere Port Memories: Vauxhall marks 30 years of Astras | Cheshire Memories: Wartime memories of Czechs in the UK »
0 TrackBacks
Listed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: Chester Memories: Bygone era city shown in Victorian map.
TrackBack URL for this entry: http://blogs.chesterchronicle.co.uk/cgi-bin/mt421/mt-tb.cgi/194460
My feed
It's not so simple to make a good written essay, preferably if you are concerned. I advise you to notice buy essay and to be spare from disbelief that your work will be done by writing services