31-03-2021, 11:11 AM
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Re: Cartophile
Originally Posted by OldGreyFox
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Wouldn't it be great if you could look at an old map, touch a place and be transported back to the past, and be able to walk around there unobserved.....
31-03-2021, 11:30 AM
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Re: Cartophile
Originally Posted by Silver Tabby
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Wouldn't that be grand? We were taught basic map reading at grammar School - part of the Geography lessons. Then I joined an Orienteering group - that was fun - we would be bused out to the middle of nowhere - issued with a map and compass - and have to find our way back!
Church with/without spire, windmill with/without sails, bridge over/under, contour lines and height. I found it all very fascinating.
I like old maps showing boundaries and disused canals or railway lines and locations of long disappeared buildings etcetera.
I recently looked at a map of the village where I grew up. My friends and I used to walk down a lane over two streams that we called First Beck and Second Beck to get to our "playground"; a field full of old WW2 airfield buildings.
To my surprise, the map showed it as being the same stream, called Buck Beck, that curved round in a U shape. None of us knew that at the time.
31-03-2021, 11:33 AM
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Re: Cartophile
Originally Posted by Silver Tabby
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Wouldn't that be grand? We were taught basic map reading at grammar School - part of the Geography lessons. Then I joined an Orienteering group - that was fun - we would be bused out to the middle of nowhere - issued with a map and compass - and have to find our way back!
When I was learning to read a map I had to stand in a great big field and drop a fifty pence piece into the grass. Using the compass I had to walk one hundred paces due East, I then had to walk one hundred paces due south, then West, and finally North. You should arrive back where you had dropped your fifty pence piece. I was skint a lot in those days, until I got the hang of it....
31-03-2021, 08:24 PM
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Re: Cartophile
Originally Posted by spitfire
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Fifty Pence Foxy, Half Crown more like.
What are you trying to say Spitty.....
31-03-2021, 09:08 PM
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Re: Cartophile
Originally Posted by Tubby
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Never liked all this decimalisation - whatever next 100 degrees in a right angle?
31-03-2021, 09:11 PM
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Re: Cartophile
Originally Posted by zuludog
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This might help, or for old Manchester in general -www.manchester-forum.co.uk
and Search YouTube for 'Martin Zero Manchester'
He has made lots of videos about old Manchester and its waterways, canals, and rivers
31-03-2021, 11:12 PM
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Re: Cartophile
Originally Posted by OldGreyFox
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I didn't like them changing the live red wire to Brown in mains wiring either Tubby.....
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