Birmingham-1900 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22228

Map Date:

? 1900

Repository reference:

BOL C17:70 Birmingham (21)

Town name:

Handsworth, Aston, Birmingham, Smethwick

Map type:

Sociological

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP067868

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 0888

Map title:

'Greater Birmingham Map of the districts assigned to the Evangelical Free Churches of Birmingham & district'.

Comments on map:

Letterpress: top centre lists Council (President George Cadbury), top right has method of assigning districts and subdistricts (ideally about 1 visitor to 25 houses), and bottom has index to numbered churches and missions (over 150, including Friends). Dated 1900 in Bodleian card index. Standard of lettering not very good in the more crowded parts, but otherwise a map of above-average interest.

Scale:

1:16,096

Map-maker:

Midland Educational Co. Ld, Birmington, Leicester & Leamington [pr], Council of the Evangelical Free Churches of Birmingham & district [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

73.3 x 97.2

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

Buildings, boundaries: Churches, public buildings, schools.

Colouring:

boundaries: Assigned districts green, districts not assigned and circling of churches and missions 'accepting the district' red.

Road names:

partly: Comprehensive within borough boundary, fragmentary outside.

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, police

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

dispensaries, hospitals, mental, workhouses, misc: Magdalen Asylum, Asylum [licensed victuallers!!], St Josephs Home, Convalescent Home.

Education and academic:

schools, further educational/colleges

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

recreation grounds

Public/administrative boundaries:

Ward, misc: City; assigned districts green, districts not assigned red: the largest of these is Edgbaston.

Known copies of map:

BOL C17:70 Birmingham (21).

Industry:

engineering, uncertain: One Gun Factory, Burnville Works.

Railways:

routes, goods depots, named, passenger stations: Includes the 'ghost' line, complete.

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, public halls, theatres, etc, art galleries

Parkland:

botanic gardens, public parks

Service and professional:

banks

Waterbodies:

shown

Reference system:

squaring: 1.0-mile.

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1887-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560