Redditch & Bromsgrove in the Cassini Past & Present map series which covers town & cities of England & Wales & offers a unique way of tracing their history & expansion by showing four different periods of their development using Ordnance Survey mapping from the mid-19th century, the late 19th century, the 1920s & the present day. Coverage

Includes:: Alvechurch, Barnt Green, Catshill, Hollywood, Longbridge, Mappleborough Green & Studley. Each Past & Present map consists of four panels, all centred on a city or a town & covering exactly the same 15km x 15km area. Three of the panels reproduce Ordnance Survey’s historical editions: the Old Series, the Revised New Series & the Popular Edition, enlarged from their original inch-to-the-mile to match the 1:50, 000 scale of the present-day Landranger extract shown in the fourth panel.* Old Series: the first detailed survey mapping dating from the first half of the 19th century, in black & white & with relief shown by hachuring.* Revised New Series from 1880s/1900s, with some colouring & a mixture of hachuring & contour lines.* Popular Edition from the inter-war years, with contour lines & colouring to indicate woodlands, parks, etc. National Grid lines are shown on all four panels for easy comparison across the four time periods. Historical notes, details of the original maps used & web-links for local history societies & other sources of information are also provided. *PLEASE NOTE:** Reproductions from the Ordnance Survey’s historical series are also available as maps of a wider area, with each title corresponding in its coverage to a present day Landranger map. Please see Great Britain: Cassini Historical Reproductions of Ordnance Survey One-Inch Maps series.* Stanfords can also print on request mapping from all the series *centring the map on a location of your choice.* For more information please click on the link below.

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Redditch East in 1903 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the eastern part of Redditch, stretching from Evesham Street eastward to the River Arrow & the county boundary (with some fields beyond). Features include Beoley Mill, Holloway Farm, Eadie Cycle Works, Ipsley Lodge, Washford Mills, St George`s church, St Stephen`s church, British Mills, Church Green, Ipsley Street, Redditch Brickworks, Easemore Farm, etc. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Redditch West in 1903 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. In this title: the map covers the western part of Redditch, stretching from Unicorn Hill westward to Foxlydiate Wood, with the Fox & Goose Inn at the western edge of the map. Features include the railway with station, Pitcher Oak Wood, Ferny Hill Brickworks, cemetery; Victoria needle works, Easemore needle works, Windsor Mills, Standard Works, Ashleigh Works, all representing the town's major needle & fishing tackle industry; iron foundry, Bates Hill, Unicorn Hotel, Bridley Moor Farm. The first half of an 1896 directory is included on the reverse. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Redditch West in 1903 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the western part of Redditch, stretching from Unicorn Hill westward to Foxlydiate Wood, with the Fox & Goose Inn at the western edge. Features include the railway with station, Pitcher Oak Wood, Ferny Hill Brickworks, cemetery; Victoria needle works, Easemore needle works, Windsor Mills, Standard Works, Ashleigh Works, all representing the town`s major needle & fishing tackle industry; iron foundry, Bates Hill, Unicorn Hotel, Bridley Moor Farm, etc. The first half of an 1896 directory is included on the reverse. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Redditch, Kidderminster, Bromsgrove, Droitwich Spa & Stourport-on-Severn Street Atlas from the Geographers` A-Z Map Company in a paperback format slightly smaller than A5. Map scale is 1:15, 840 (4” to a mile). Coverage include, Alcester, Alvechurch, Bewdley, Catshill & West Hagley. Current edition of this title was published in 2015. To see other titles in this series of A-Z street atlases of towns & cities please click on the series link. A-Z also publish a series of County Street Atlases
- for a list of titles in that series please search for SI00000917.A-Z street atlases present motorways plus A & B roads highlighted by colouring & shown with route numbers. One way or restricted access streets & car parks are marked, as are in more recently published titles locations of speed cameras. Also shown are selected cycleway routes. Where appropriate, A & B roads are annotated with selected house numbers for easier identification of addresses. Railway lines are shown with stations & level crossings. Colouring indicates different types of buildings: educational, hospitals & healthcare, industrial, leisure & recreational, shopping centres & markets, public buildings, & places of interest. Symbols mark locations of facilities usually indicated on street mapping: post offices, emergency services, public toilets, etc. Also marked are postcode & local authority boundaries. Each page has the lines & coordinates of the British National Grid. The indexes list streets, places & areas, hospitals, industrial estates, blocks of flats on housing estates, railway stations, & selected places o interest; the latter are printed in contrasting colouring to make them easier to find.
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1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane Mooney is searching for her younger brother she has not seen in four years, one of the hundred thousand children drawn into the war. His fate has been mysterious & will prove extraordinary. It`s a walk that will have consequences for many seemingly unconnected survivors: a love-struck cartographer, a haunted Latina poetess, rebel guerrilla Cole Mc Laurenson, runaway slave Elizabeth Longstreet & the mercurial revolutionary James Con O` Keeffe, who commanded a brigade of Irish immigrants in the Union Army & is now Governor of a western wilderness where nothing is as it seems. ...

This enlightening, entertaining, profoundly political & poetic gathering of essays by the Poet Laureate of Jamaica covers a wealth of subjects, from the odd dissociation of a colonial education to the reality of life in the wider world, the singing of hymns in school & the way their words stay with us, to the many influences--music, art, storytelling, theatre, cinema, travel, religion, family life & politics--that nurture our imaginations & her own writing voice. Taking her title from Kingston`s oldest market & downtown meeting place that was almost destroyed by fire last year, Lorna Goodison introduces us to an extraordinary cast of characters & range of influences--from finding a black hairdresser in Paris & crying at a movie in Jamaica to having a life-changing epiphany in New York`s Bottom Line Club or drinking tea with an old friend & new strangers in London`s Marylebone High Street. ...

This collection brings together the five 2018 shortlisted stories, along with stories written at the Caine Prize Writers` Workshop, taking place April 2018. The prize was launched in 2000 to encourage & highlight the richness & diversity of African writing by bringing it to a wider audience internationally. The focus on the short story reflects the contemporary development of the African story-telling tradition. Judges are drawn from different literary fields including eminent journalists, broadcasters & academics with expertise & a connection to literature in Africa. Five stories are selected for the shortlist by the judges. The 2018 judging panel comprises: Dinaw Mengestu, journalist, author & graduate of Georgetown University & of Columbia University`s M.F.A programme in fiction; Alain Mabanckou, prolific Francophone Congolese poet & novelist & Man Booker International Prize finalist (2015); reporter, columnist & poet Ahmed Rajab; Henrietta Rose-Innes, a South African author who won the Caine Prize in 2008; Lola Shoneyin, a Nigerian writer who has won the Ken Saro-Wiwa Prose Prize, among others. ...

Redesdale in 1866 in a series of reproductions of Ordnance Survey’s famous ” Inch to the Mile” maps published in the Alan Godfrey Editions to provide a historical record of England & Wales in the second half of 19th & early 20th century. The map covers a rural part of central Northumberland centred on Redesdale. Coverage included Byrness, Elsdon, Falstone, Harbottle, Holystone, Otterburn, Thorneyburn Common. On the reverse is a detailed map of the village of Elsdon with a directory. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the OS Inch to the Mile Maps: the maps provide an invaluable overview of a wider area, typically 18 x 12 miles (29 x 19 kms approx.), & offer historical mapping for small towns & villages not covered by the more detailed series for which the Godfrey Editions are better known. On the reverse all the maps have historical notes & most titles also include a more detailed, large scale map of a small town or a village in the area. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Redhill in 1895 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the centre of Redhill, gathered on the west side of the railway, & extends eastward a mile along Nutfield Road to Patteson Court. Redhill grew up because of the railway & the Brighton line runs north-south through the centre of the map. Features include Redhill Junction station, engine shed, Royal St Anne`s Society Schools, Market Field, Gasworks, Station Road, High Street, Fullers Earth works. On the reverse is a directory of private residents, together with an essay on the town`s development by the noted transport & suburbia historian Alan Jackson. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...