Whilst I am aware that 'the customer is always right', in this case if
the customer is looking for a '50-inch' of Sheerness in 1864 he or she
is definitely wrong8! It was mapped in the early 1860s at 1:500 and
1L:2500: I believe that the only known pre-1911 '50-inch' (1:1250) OS
mapping is that of Shoeburyness of 1859: only known copy in TNA.
It begs the question: what is the enquirer's source?
Richard Oliver
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:48:17 -0000 DGC-IP GEOLIB C1
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> No, the enquiry I received was quite specific 50inch. The BL have other
> sheets at this scale but the dockyard is blank. I agree the larger scale
> would be more useful but that is not what the customer is looking for.
>
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> Subject: Re: OS 50inch plan of royal dockyard Sheerness 1864
>
> Surely you mean '1:500': '50-inch' is 1:1250!!
>
> I'd also be interested in tracvking down a copy!
>
> Richard Oliver
>
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> Subject: OS 50inch plan of royal dockyard Sheerness 1864
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>
>
> Does anyone know where a copy of the subject plan might be held please?
>
> BL has OS 50inch mapping of Sheerness but the detail of the dockyard has
> not been included. Greenwich Maritime Museum has been very helpful in
> identifying other material but not the specific OS plan, and TNA does
> not believe that it holds a copy.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
> Liz Manterfield
>
> Hd of Geospatial Library, DGC
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Richard Oliver, B.A., D.Phil., F.B.Cart.S.,
Research Fellow in the History of Cartography
School of Geography, Archaeology & Earth Resources
University of Exeter
Exeter, EX4 4RJ
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