Dear friends,
I'm forwarding this e-mail (with permission) on large maps
from the archives discussion group. they have plans to
display the map in October. The City Council have
offered the use of the Guildhall floor.
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000
From: "Curtis, Helen (Cultural Services)"
We have in our holdings a huge map. It was originally
commissioned by Worcester City Corporation in 1866.
Unfortunately the city only specified the scale and not the
dimensions; so the surveyor supplied a map measures 8
metres (25 feet) square. The map is rarely displayed
because of its size, we certainly can't show it in
the Record Office searchroom.
Does anyone know of one that's bigger?
Helen Curtis
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They have plans to display the map in October and the City
Council have offered the use of the Guildhall floor.
(Would any one be interested in a Map Curators' Day Out to
visit it?). Helen wishes to find out more about large maps
to help her prepare press releases, etc.
A couple of other large maps have been mentioned in the
discussion including the 3rd century AD marble map of Rome,
60 x 45 feet, noted by Richard Higgins of Durham University
Library. Nick Kingsley of Gloucester County Council
reported that their parish valuation map of
Westbury-on-Severn (Glos) is also 25 feet square. A 40' by
20' map of the Electricity Distribution network for North
East England was mentioned by Bruce Jackson (Lancashire
County Council).
Does anyone have further examples on comments on large maps?
Best wishes
Tinho
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Antonio da Cruz (Tinho) [log in to unmask]
Map Curator, Department of Geography, Roxby Building
University of Liverpool, LIVERPOOL L69 7ZT
Telephone: 0151 794 2844 Fax: 0151 794 2866
See the British Archaeological Association web page
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/baa
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