ZOOM MEETING #14.
Monday 22nd November 2021.
The subject was 'Milemarkers, sign boards & boundary posts and OS maps' and Dr. Richard Oliver did a talk, followed by a Q&A session. It was similar talk to ones previous that Richard has given to the 'Milestone Society' and new ground for those CCS members who aren't Milestone Society members, and probably new lights even for those who are. See the recording here.
ZOOM MEETING #13.
Monday 8th November 2021.
The subject was 'Publication of the 25" by parishes: was Scotland treated differently?' and Rob Wheeler will do a talk, followed by a Q&A session. See the recording here.
RETURN OF THE SOCIETY WALKS!
Saturday 2nd October 2021.
We're pleased to announce 'A walk around Waterloo and the South Bank' by John King. The walk will not be a cartographic meander but will include Waterloo Station, and some of its memorials, look down into the Waterloo and City line, the Necropolis Railway and the South Bank, particularly the remains of the Festival of Britain, plus many other points of interest. The meeting place is opposite Platforms 1 & 2 and the walk will take about 2 hours. We would ask for a maximum of 20 people on the walk, so if you'd like to attend, please mail the Visits Co-ordinator to book a place. There is no charge for the walk, just the good company of like minded people.
NEXT MIDLAND GROUP MEETING.
Tuesday 28th September 2021.
The next meeting will be a 'Bring & Tell' evening on Tuesday 28th September at the Wall Village Hall in Staffordshire (Watling St, Lichfield WS14 0AW). Please contact Lez Watson if you'd like to attend, so he can monitor numbers.
DISCOUNTED ENTRY TO THE BRITISH CARTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY (BCS) ANNUAL CONFERENCE.
8th to 9th September 2021.
Registration is open for this year's BCS Annual Conference, supported by the British Geological Survey. Held virtually, the two-day event will feature a range of fascinating speakers from leading organisations involved in cartography and GIS. Due to a new colloboration with the BCS (further on this in the near future), The Charles Close Society Members can register for events at discounted prices. Details on the event are on the new British Cartographic Society page, the promo codes to book will come in the next Member eNewsletter.
August 2021 Annual General Meeting talk (streaming length: 59m 42s) by David L Walker entitled 'The Ordnance and the Hydrographic Service 1811-1843'.
NEXT MIDLAND GROUP MEETING.
Wednesday May 19th 2021.
Januarys meeting in Wall has been cancelled due the current Covid-19 lockdown. However, the next meeting was held on Wednesday May 19th at the Wall Village Hall in Staffordshire (Watling St, Lichfield WS14 0AW) commencing at 7:30pm. Future meetings are to be held on the 3rd Wednesday of the month in January, May & September.
Zoom meeting #11 'Aviation Maps Show & Tell'.
Monday 19th April 2021.
This was an open Show-and-Tell session hosted by Ian Byrne. See the recording here.
Zoom meeting #10 'The OS Half-Inch Map'.
Monday 22nd March 2021.
This lecture by Richard Oliver with a Q&A afterwards is an introduction to the Ordnance Survey half-inch map series, which several CCS members have been working on since even before CCS was formed! In Britain the series was introduced in 1902-3 in response to pressure from the army, and for the next 20 years they regarded it as the primary topographic map of the country. It went through several rethinks and redesigns, and arguably never achieved a ‘definitive’ form. In 1922 the army decided they liked the one-inch instead, and the half-inch had to survive or fall as a civil map. Efforts after 1930 at restyling and redrawing were frustrated first by the war and then by a lack of money, and the series came effectively to an end in Britain in the 1960s. In Ireland it had a different career: in the Republic it came to be the standard map of the country by the 1950s, and lasted, with some interesting changes of detail, until replaced by the 1:50,000 in the 1990s.
Zoom meeting #9, 'Railway Line Plans & their use of OS Material'.
Monday 22nd February 2021.
We have another Zoom meeting planned for the evening of Monday 22nd February at 7:30pm. This will be by CCS member Gavin Johns for an hour on 'Railway line plans and their use of Ordnance Survey materials'. It will contain some railway history; a major accident and railway operations and a ramble along the Teign valley and the Cambrian coast. See the recording here.