Cheshire-Birkenhead-1844 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19274

Map Date:

8.10.1844

Repository reference:

Manchester Central Library LS ff.912.4272.L6, fol.3

Historic county:

Cheshire

Town name:

Birkenhead

Map type:

Highways

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ325890

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 3590

Map title:

'Typographic plan of Birkenhead and its environs, showing the proposed improvements.'

Comments on map:

May be derived from Exeter 19275: there is similarity of industrial information, e.g. Presented with the Liverpool Standard, 8 October 1844. Made up from standard type, rules and ornaments (tho' I don't quite see how they get some of the curves). Emphasis is on lines and text: area-fill is of neccesity largely omitted, though a 'bushy' effect is managed in Hamilton Square. Annotations include 'New Park, laid out in Serpentine Walks, with Shrubbery, &c.' This is one of a small spate of such things represented in this volume: at fol.29 is 'Plan of the Liverpool Docks', also apparently typographic (but not acknowledged as such), presented with the Liverpool Standard of 17 September 1844, with some printing in red, and [Birkenhead] fol.2 is 'Liverpool and Birkenhead Docks.', presented with the Liverpool Mercury of 25 October 1844, but this time drawn and engraved by Jos. A.D. Watts of Liverpool. At fol.6 is 'Proposed plan for the improvement of Wallasey Pool', n.d., presumably later 1840s, 'Presented with the Liverpool Mail', n.d. The typographic mapping anticipates early line-printer computer mapping by nearly 120 years in its general approach.

Scale:

1:12,672*

Map-maker:

Liverpool Standard [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

54.7 x 43.8

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted.

Water transport infrastructure:

docks

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, reservoirs, water works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

misc: Site for Slaughter houses and Town Hall.

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

Wirral Archives B/802/1, Birkenhead Lib M.I.10 [with lands & owners], Cheshire RO PM 17/3, Manchester City Library ff912.4272 L6.

Industry:

lime/cement, metallurgical processing, ship yards, misc: Smalt Works, Varnish Factory, Gum Works.

Parkland:

public parks

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Waterbodies:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Stated measuerments:

other: Dock acreages and depths.

Ordnance Survey's

1873-4

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1898-9

1:2500

1:10,560