| Re: Man with pointy stick Posted by Witham Bobby at 12:26, 30th September 2024 |     |
And all these pictures going into a proper cartography office and being used to hand draw beautiful OS maps. Today's maps may be very fractionally more accurate, but they do not match the beauty of what the OS achieved, back in the day
| Re: Man with pointy stick Posted by CyclingSid at 09:37, 29th September 2024 | |
There must have been thousands of these across the country when the Ordnance Survey did the post war revision. What has survived and where is a moot point. OS appears to have been quite "careless" in preservation of their paper records in their moves of headquarters. I asked recently about the location of an aerial photograph, date, flight number & frame number supplied. No sensible reply, look on the internet? It is the only photograph I have without a flight list, most annoying. Somewhere round Reading in the late 1990's. No doubt another case like the "what is roll film".
| Man with pointy stick Posted by grahame at 06:35, 28th September 2024 | |
NOT a "where is this?" quiz because all the pictures in the series give themselves away
A Man with a Stick! (1950s Ordnance Survey Revision Point Photographs)
by Local Studies, Swindon Central Library
A fantastic set of photographic images scanned from a set of extremely rare Ordnance Survey "Revison Point" books in our collection. Mostly from 1953 and 1954, these previously unseen and unpublished photographs have been of great interest to local historians and the subject of a fascinating talk by Andy Binks (Chair, The Swindon Society).
by Local Studies, Swindon Central Library
A fantastic set of photographic images scanned from a set of extremely rare Ordnance Survey "Revison Point" books in our collection. Mostly from 1953 and 1954, these previously unseen and unpublished photographs have been of great interest to local historians and the subject of a fascinating talk by Andy Binks (Chair, The Swindon Society).
https://www.flickr.com/photos/swindonlocal/albums/72157672893763035/with/15379229363
