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New Year's honour for Alan Godrey
January 7
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/4838017.Unsung_heroes_off_to_meet_the_Queen/
'David Thompson, governor of top security Frankland Jail and Alan Godfrey,
publisher of old maps receive honours' (by Bruce Unwin in the Northern
Echo).
'Alan Godfrey, a successful publisher of old maps, was made an MBE in last
week's Queen's awards ... Mr Godfrey, a lifelong lover of maps, made it his
profession in 1981, when he began publishing old Ordnance Survey maps, no
longer covered by copyright. The Tyneside-born former actor and school
peripatetic music and drama teacher, has now researched and produced 2,300
maps, covering the UK, and begins preparation of his first German pre-war
maps, next week.
He said more than 50 per cent of his business is down to the family history
boom, with London's East End and parts of Liverpool the most popular. Mr
Godfrey, 66, of Holmside, near Sacriston, County Durham, moved the business
to Leadgate in 2000.'
Tony Campbell
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