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From: Archivists, conservators and records managers. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of humphrey
Sent: 04 December 2014 19:06
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Subject: Seeking maps showing 1961 ward boundaries for the cities of England and Wales
We have been systematically e-mailing individual city archives with this enquiry, but we are not doing well with results so a more general appeal may turn something up in other kinds of archive.
We here at the Great Britain Historical GIS are doing a small project for the EU Regional Policy Directorate which requires detailed computer mapping of population statistics from the 1961 census. We already have computerised 1961 boundaries for parishes, so we have rural areas covered, but for the main towns we need ward boundaries. The earliest accurate computerised boundaries for these are for 1981, and there are no easily usable published maps showing them. The Office of National Statistics have a very large set of detailed maps showing the ward boundaries used for 1961, but setting up a project to use these systematically would cost hundreds of thousands.
Instead, we are trying to locate less detailed maps sufficient for our purpose; for most cities, a map on an ordinary book page is big enough, so planning reports are an obvious source. What we have so far is:
— Some hand-drawn county maps we rescued from a skip when the Office of National Statistics moved out of their central London offices in 1998. The biggest city those covered was Bristol.
— We are working with the Greater London Authority on a different project on old census data, and their census people were able to find a map in their “document store” (somewhere in west London, unstaffed and nothing to do with the Greater London Archives …). This shows 1961 wards for the whole Greater London Council area. It is a lot bigger than a book page, but they lent it to us to scan.
— The 1961 census reports for the four main Scottish cities, and for nowhere else, include ward maps as well as ward populations. Each map is a bit bigger than A4-size, and we are fine with that.
— Birmingham’s Planning and Regeneration department has found and e-mailed us the necessary map.
There are obviously many big cities in the north of England we also need maps for.
Although this is a contract research project, all the statistical outputs from it will be public, and we are happy to share the digital boundary data with anyone who helps us. Ideally, just email us a scan of a map. However, if you have a relevant map but that is not possible we are happy to discuss other ways of using it — so long as the map is not at 6 miles to the inch or more detailed scales!
Any assistance very gratefully received — especially from archives who are not City Archives!
Humphrey Southall
Professor of Historical Geography/
Director, GB Historical GIS
University of Portsmouth
Geography Dept, Buckingham Bldg,
Lion Terrace, Portsmouth PO1 3HE, UK
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