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The largest freely available online archive of twentieth century georeferenced OS maps of Great Britain and Ireland at "road map" scales from 1:25k to 1:633k including One Inch, Half Inch and Quarter Inch mapping. https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps

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SABRE Maps@maps.sabre-roads.org.uk · last mo.

More OS, OSI and OSNI #maps at the Half Inch scale this week have been added to SABRE Maps, with 15 maps for you to enjoy. Disappointingly, the 1961 map of Snowdonia doesn't appear to consider The Village at Portmerion, soon to welcome Number Six, to be important enough to label. #ThePrisoner

Extract from Ordnance Survey OS map of Snowdonia from 1961, showing the area around Portmadoc and Morfa Harlech on the boundary between Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire, Wales
SABRE Maps@maps.sabre-roads.org.uk · 3mo ago

A challenge for everyone this #MapMonday! We've added four Half Inch #maps from 1945 and 1946; and two of them are two different revisions of the Ordnance Survey Half Inch District sheet of Greater London, as well as two sheets covering parts of Ireland.

Map extract from the Ordnance Survey OS map of Greater London at the Half Inch scale from 1945, showing the Woking, Weybridge and Chertsey area.
SABRE Maps@maps.sabre-roads.org.uk · 3mo ago

As a reminder, we have every single edition of every single OS One Inch Seventh Series available to view on SABRE Maps! ...except that one pesky sheet of Doncaster (Revision A/) which we cannot find anywhere, so if anyone has one, or know anywhere that has one, please let us know!

Archives & Collections, Library of Birmingham@theironroom.bsky.social · 3mo ago

May is #LocalHistoryMonth www.history.org.uk/historian/re... Maps are wonderful for exploring the history of your area. As well as flat maps, we have an extensive collection of folded maps such as this 7th Edition one inch map of Birmingham #LibraryofBham @histassoc.bsky.social

Front cover of an Ordnance Survey National Grid Seventh Series one - inch map of Great Britain. Sheet 131 : Birmingham. Fully revised 1950 and published 1955. The words Ordnance Survey in a box at the top of the front cover and a basic line drawing of Birmingham and the surrounding area in another box at the bottom of the front cover.
SABRE@sabre-roads.org.uk · 4mo ago

Definitely too good to not share. Incidentally, the second temporary terminal as the south end of the Penrith Bypass is caught on SABRE Maps at www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps/index.p...

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Mike@mikeyashworth.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The brochure for the Official Opening of the Penrith By-Pass Section of the M6 Motorway on 7 November 1968; an isolated section when completed awaiting the Shap section to the south & onwards to Carlisle in the North. @roads.org.uk @sabre-roads.org.uk @showmeasign.online ↘️ flic.kr/p/2s6B7m8

Birmingham - Preston - Penrith - Carlisle Motorway M6 : Penrith By-Pass Section : Official Opening : 7 November 1968. The brochure issued by the Agent Authority - Cumberland County Council - for the official opening of the Penrith By-Pass section of the M6 Motorway that took place on 7 November 1968. The even seems to have had a relatively low key official at the event; R.C. Brown MP, a Joint Parliamentary Secretary in the Mininstry of Transport. This section of motorway saw construction commence on 1 November 1966 with a Contract period of two years and three months and it appears that they achieved the works in just under two years. The Contract included the section of the M6 from a temporary junction with a realigned A6 at Hackthorpe in Westmorland and running north to the west of Penrith to another temporary finishing point at Catterlen; from here the B5305 became the link east to the existing A6 at Stoneybeck. Later the northern section onwards to Carlisle and the Border would be completed along with the southern Shap section. The work included the two level junction seen on the cover where realigned sections of the A66 and A592 creating a southern by-pass to the town met the Motorway. Interestingly the brochure mentions that a bypass to Penrith was first mooted in 1930; a pre-war traffic figure of 4,000 through vehicles (per 16 hours) had risen to 25,000 per 24 hours by 1962 and, when the M6 opened, these figures had risen to 30,000 vehicles per 24 hours. All this traffic passed directly through Penrith's relatively small town centre where the main street was the A6 trunk road, the main West Coast road link between England and Scotland. The brochure gives details of the construction work, including the various bridges that included two major crossings of the West Coast Main Line railway; one of the bridges mentioned here, at Clifton, has just been replaced in a major project to manage a now life expired structure.
SABRE Maps@maps.sabre-roads.org.uk · 4mo ago

It's time for a whole load of new #maps at a new scale - so let's talk about the Half Inch. Between the wars, they were common in both Great Britain and Ireland, but after WW2 they became the primary scale in Ireland but mostly disappeared in GB in favour of One Inch maps.

Extract from Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSI) #map showing Drogheda at the Half Inch scale from 1918
Amalia S. Levi, PhD@amaliasl.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Archives are neither dusty nor old stuff neither dead nor boring. Archives are what we make of them. Each generation, each of us sees diferent things in an item. Each of us adds something new every time we engage. Each item in the archives is the sum of all these interactions.

SABRE Maps@maps.sabre-roads.org.uk · 5mo ago

Want to go between somewhere to the north of Manchester and somewhere to the south by train in 1986? Your best choice was probably including a walk right the way across Manchester city centre. It's incredible looking back how much the GMPTE rail service at the time was in two halves.

Mike@mikeyashworth.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Greater Manchester's Railways - poster map issued in Dec. 1986 & making a play on the use of the BR Pacer trains as seen here in PTE livery. Soon we'll be seeing yellow Bee Network trains but possibly not a Pacer! #manchester #railways #trains #britishrail #map

Dec 1986 Poster Map issued by the Greater Manchester Passanger Transport Executive and showing a diagram of the railway network in the County at that time. This includes the now Metrolink lines to Bury, Altrincham and the Oldham Loop. The upper section of the poster is dominated by a photo of a BR "Pacer" train, in the PTE's orange livery, along with an interior view. The title "Greater Manchester's Railways - settingt he pace in Greater Manchester' is a play on the Pacer name.