Past Meetings & Visits

Picture : Visiting Imray, makers of the blueback charts, September 2007. photo:Gerry Jarvis

August 2022
The 2022 Annual General Meeting 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 appear in the December copy of Sheetlines. There wasn't a guest speaker this year, so no relavant recording is available.

August 2021
Annual General Meeting talk (streaming length: 59m 42s) by David L Walker entitled 'The Ordnance and the Hydrographic Service 1811-1843'.

August 2020
Annual General Meeting talk (streaming length: 20m 28s) by Karen Rann entitled 'Contours: Lines of Subversion?'.
Karen Rann is a visual artist who joined the society in 2018 and is currently working on her doctoral thesis at Queen’s University Belfast. The rationale is a novel approach (with some artistic licence taken) to the function of contour lines and their changed role from the 1800s to today.

December 2019
Royal Scottish Geographical Society & Glasgow by John Davies

August 2019
Visits & Meetings by Bernard Anderson

April 2019
Soviet Cold War maps of London and Ordnance Survey, London by John Davies

December 2018
Visit to Cheshire archives & local studies by Bernard Anderson

August 2018
Redbourn, Shap Wells & County Records Office, Durham
Durham Records Office by Bernard Anderson

April 2018
City of London Cartographic Meander by John King

December 2017
London, Glasgow and Edinburgh visits

August 2017
Central London Cartographic Meander by John King

December 2016
Dennis Maps visit

December 2015
An Ulster Pilgrimage

August 2014
Annual General Meeting

December 2013
Visit to British Library by John Henry
Visit to Liverpool by John Henry, including photographs by John Davies, Ken Hollamby and Gerry Zierler

August 2013
Visit to Cambridge University Library by Peter Walker and Chris Higley

April 2013
Exploring Explorer House by John Davies

December 2011
Gotha Visit by John Henry, including photographs
Dublin Visit by John Henry, including photographs

December 2009
Cambridge University Library by Gerry Zierler
Guernsey - Digimap & Priaulx Library by Chris Higley and Alexander Kent
National Library of Scotland event

September 2009
The National Archives, Kew by Alan Fair

August 2009
Visit to Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon by Gerry Jarvis and Andrew Janes

April 2009
Visit to FWT, London by John Davies
No1 AIDU RAF Northolt by Eddie Ashill

December 2008
Conwy Weekend by John Davies
Copenhagen by Chris Board, Gerry Jarvis, John Davies
Bodleian Library, Oxford by John Henry
Visit to Lovell Johns by John Henry

August 2008
Defence College of Intelligence, Royal School of Military Survey by John Seeley
Visit to Isle of Man by John Davies
Annual General Meeting, including talk about Cassini Maps by Brian Quinn

April 2008
Roseberry Topping, North York Moors by David Shirt
The GeoInformation Group by John Winterbottom
Quickmap Luton by Nick Jeffery
UK Civil Air Charts by Chris Higley

September 2007
Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson visit by John Davies

August 2007
Visit to Landmark Information Group by Ken Hollamby
Visit to Snowflake Software by John Davies
Scotland Tour (Stirling Surveys, Harvey Maps, NLS) by Gerry Zierler
Slovenia by John Davies and others

April 2007
Visit to Ordnance Survey by John Seeley and Mike Cottrell
Visit to Ludlow by Gerry Jarvis

August 2006
Expedition to Riga by Alexander Kent and others
Visit to Alan Godfrey Maps by John Davies