Windsor North in 1968 in a series of exceptionally detailed reproductions of old Ordnance Survey street plans for areas of mainly larger cities which have undergone substantial redevelopment in the late 19th or the early 20th century, published in the Alan Godfrey Editions. The plans, printed in back & white, have been taken from the original Ordnance Survey mapping at 1:1, 056 & reproduced at 1:1, 760 – the equivalent of 36 inches (or one yard) to a mile. The maps provide an unrivalled, house-by-house picture of streets & individual buildings with inner courtyards, outbuildings, pavements, covered passages, etc. Many important institutions are named; within the National Galley on Trafalgar Square even the individual rooms (the map is from 1871, so no French Impressionists as yet!). On the reverse are historical notes about the area covered by the map, plus extracts from contemporary street directories. The two maps of Windsor, North & South, reveals the interior layout of many buildings, including Windsor Castle, & the mixed gauge track into the GWR station. Windsor North map
Includes:: Windsor Castle & precincts, GWR terminus, LSWR terminus, Windsor Bridge, Brewery, riverside, part of Eton High Street (but not the college). Windsor South map
Includes:: Peascod Street, Holy Trinity church, Infantry Barracks, Nachelors Acre, Royal Mews, etc, & has a list private residents from an 1891 directory. These maps provide a fascinating addition to Alan Godfrey’s huge series of some 2, 000 titles presenting reproductions of street plans at taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping at 1:2, 500 (25” to 1 mile) & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340).