DECEMBER ONLINE TALK Zoom Meeting #19
12th December 2022, 7:30pm.
The online talk before Christmas will be entitled 'Adding Railways to the Old Series' and will be by Dr. Rob Wheeler. The addition of railways was the principal cause of substantive revision to the one-inch Old Series. The manner in which it was done was far from uniform. This talk will explore some of the variation and consider whether it is appropriate to try to identify distinct styles. View the recording here, streaming length: 1hr 12m
MAP SALE, DEALERS WELCOME!
For those of us who have sorely missed the CCS annual map fairs, here’s an opportunity to buy yourself a mappy Christmas present!
On Saturday 3 December from 10am to 5pm, part of our founder chairman Peter K Clark’s collection will be on sale, at Unit 8, The Stables, Goblands Farm Business Centre, Cemetery Lane, Hadlow, Kent. TN11 0LT. Grid Ref: TQ 6431 4982. No need to book, just turn up! Plenty of parking available. Or book a lift from Tonbridge railway station (frequent fast trains from London). To arrange, call Ann Couldrey with your expected time of arrival: 07804 466377 or 01732 851736 the day before, or email Ann Couldrey any time. Prices from only £1 each, with deep discounts for bulk purchases! Payment in cash only please. Please bring your own containers. Tea and coffee will be available. Here’s a taste of what to expect:
- Folded maps: Popular, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh editions, tourist and district maps, plus 4th ed, ¼ inch.
- Some Irish sheets.
- Flat maps in drawers and rolls: 1” 7th series: an almost complete run, Military Survey o/ps, and other scales.
- Scottish six-inch engraved sheets: mostly 1st & 2nd eds. Indexes to the various series. Some Irish sheets.
- 1:50 000 proofs: an almost complete run (catch copies with Ms comments), a mix of M726 and civilian series.
- Old Series reproductions: a good number.
- Stacks of: OS ephemera, publication lists, newsletters, etc.
- Survey and map reading manuals, atlases.
- Other books and non-OS maps inc Bartholomew ¼” & ½”.
For enquiries about sale items please email Chris Couldrey Come to Kent on December 3rd - and have a mappy Christmas!
Zoom Meeting #18.
14th November 2022, 7:30pm
The Society's next talk will be online by Dr Richard Oliver and will be entitled 'The first 25 years of the Ordnance Survey coloured one-inch maps, 1897-1922: how the "Mudge Map" turned into the Landranger'. View the recording here, streaming length: 1hr 17m
WILLIAM ROY AND THE MILITARY SURVEY OF SCOTLAND
Thursday 1st September 2022 at 17.00pm
The Scottish Maps Forum is hosting a free talk by Humphrey Welfare which is entitled: William Roy and the Military Survey of Scotland. The talk is in connection with Humphrey’s new biography - General William Roy, 1726-1790: Father of the Ordnance Survey. This is being published by Edinburgh University Press: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-general-william-roy-1726-1790.html Humphrey’s talk will be held on Zoom – if you would like to join, please sign up at: https://forms.office.com/r/NPTEtPCkNy and you will be sent joining details.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2022
Saturday 20th August 2022
This occurred on Saturday 20th August, starting at 10:30am and finishing roughly an hour later. It was attended by just over 50 members. The minutes from the meeting will be collated and will appear in the December copy of Sheetlines. There wasn't a guest speaker this year, so no relavant recording is available.
Zoom Meeting #17.
Monday 6th June 2022.
Entitled "LOOK, THEY GAVE ME A MAP" by Ian Byrne. Not all maps were designed to be sold; some were given away for promotional reasons, by organisations as diverse as tourist boards, estate agents, bus companies, hotels, petrol stations and even tonic wine! Some were carefully designed to tempt the traveller to explore, while others look as if they were thrown together in 5 minutes. A few even used recognisable Ordnance Survey base mapping. At this Show & Tell we are inviting CCS members to bring along some favourites - good and bad - with the only restriction being that the first owner was not required to pay for them. They could date from any time in the past 150 years as, unlike many commercial maps with a cover price, these still seem to be produced in large quantities.
NEXT MIDLAND GROUP MEETING.
Tuesday 31st May 2022.
The next meeting will be on the subject of 'Tourist Maps' on Tuesday 31st May at 7:30pm 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.
LINCOLNSHIRE LOCAL MEETING.
Monday 25th April 2022.
A local meeting will take place at Harmston, just south of Lincoln, on 25th April from 1:30 to 3:15pm, with tea and coffee from 1pm. The timing has been arranged to suit the arrival of the No 1 bus service both from Lincoln and from Grantham. Location will be Harmston Memorial Hall in School Lane (SK 970624). The format of the meeting will be a 'Show and Tell': those attending are invited to bring a map or two that they are prepared to show and to say a few words about. Those Members that are interested are asked to contact the Society Secretary (or telephone 01522 720692) indicating whether they plan to bring a map to talk about. It would be extremely helpful if as many responses as possible were received by 21st March so that the Hall booking can be confirmed. There will be a charge of £3 to cover Hall hire and coffee. There is no theme as such, but one of the maps will be a state of a Yorkshire 1st edition six-inch on which the contours were yet to be engraved; another will be one or more of the 1:500 sheets of Grantham.
ZOOM MEETING #16.
Tuesday 12th April 2022.
Rob Wheeler held a talk on Tuesday 12th April entitled "The Military Editions of the Six-inch Map". The War Department (WD) maintained plates for six-inch sheets which included detail which had been ordered not to be shown on sales editions. The WD also undertook revision of these sheets to standards rather different from those followed by the OS. The results can be highly informative, but they need to be used with caution. Visit the Zoom Meeting page for more details and the recording.
NEW MEMORIAL TO MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM ROY The Charles Close Society are proud to be associated with this new memorial to Major General William Roy (1726 – 1790), whose work & leadership led to the creation of the Ordnance Survey in 1791. Led by Paul Doe and funded by London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and Civic Pride, the memorial marks the end point of the surveyed 'baseline' that Roy undertook in 1784. This forming the basis of triangulation in Britain and the backbone of Ordnance Survey maps today. According to Roy, the baseline measured 27,404.7 feet. In 1858 the Ordnance Survey re-calculated it at 27,406.4 feet on the basis of newer base measurements elsewhere in the country. This showed that Roy's original measurement was impressively accurate. It is located here for reference: https://goo.gl/maps/KHHErRkscBDqchkB6, so maybe pay a visit if you're in the area.