Humphrey,
As Bartholomew's 1887 Gazetteer is only a few feet away, this was very
easy to do. You're only missing half a column of text or so on page 68,
so I've scanned this and put copies at:
http://geo.nls.uk/maps/download/bart_gaz_p68-9.jpg
http://geo.nls.uk/maps/download/bart_gaz_p68-9.tif (21 Mb TIFF)
The gutter has come out well, but hopefully all is legible enough. Just
let me know if not.
All good wishes,
Chris
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Subject: Help needed: missing PAGE needed from Bartholomew Gazetteer of
the British Isles
My project's web site, A Vision of Britain through Time, includes what
we always describe as the "full text" of three late 19th century
gazetteer:
* John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales (1872)
* Frances Groome's The Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1885)
* John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887)
We have recently been sorting out a lot of long-standing problems with
this material. Some quite big sections of the Imperial Gazetteer turned
out to be missing, but are now there. We also sorted out a bunch of
truncated entries.
We know about one remaining problem of this kind, and hope someone on
this list can help. The original work on Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the
British Isles was done with a copy generously loaned by Glasgow
University, and one part of that copy was missing some text, I suspect
on a single page.
The gap starts part way into the entry for Berkshire, as horribly
obvious here:
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/entry_page.jsp?text_id=18
68270
The gap clearly includes Bermondsey, which we have no entry for, and the
first entry we do have after Berkshire is:
Berrick Salome, par., SE. Oxfordshire, 4 miles NE. of Wallingford, 600
ac., pop. 105.
Does anyone have a first edition of the Bartholomew Gazetteer which does
not have this problem?
Assuming the gap is as short as I think, it would be very helpful if
someone could e-mail a scan or send us a photocopy of the missing bit.
It will appear on the site very quickly, and the site remains completely
free for anyone to use.
While we draw on this text for our "place pages", reachable from our mai
home page, most of the text in the descriptive gazetteers, and
especially the entries for anything that is not a settlement, can only
be reached by using our specialised search interface for descriptive
gazetteers:
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions
As well as sorting out these missing bits and correcting many OCR
errors, we have made a few changes to how the searching works, and now
try to identify variant names. For example, whereas before one entry was
only reachable if you searched for "ALNMOUTH OR ALEMOUTH", you can now
also reach it by searching for "ALNMOUTH" or for "ALEMOUTH". We have
also mined alternative names, often archaic, as with this entry for
Liverpool:
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/entry_page.jsp?text_id=21
21510
(Go the bottom of the page to see the place-names we now associate with
the entry)
Best wishes,
Humphrey Southall
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