Lanarkshire-Glasgow-1887 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21225

Map Date:

3.1887

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 145.b.8

Historic county:

Lanarkshire

Town name:

Glasgow

Map type:

Insurance

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

NS592652

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NS 5864

Map title:

'Insurance plan of Glasgow.'

Comments on map:

Note of population, water supply and fire-fighting equipment on graphic index sheet at 1:2400, which covers a larger area than the detailed plans. Letterpress index to streets, 'specials', i.e. commercial premises, public buildings, etc, and 'Class ''A'' list of stores, vaults and sheds'. Vol. I, surveyred September 1886 to March 1887: Vol II not present.

Scale:

1:480

Map-maker:

Charles E. Goad, Civil Engineer, 53 New Broad St, London, E.C. [author].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

53 x 62 [standard sheet size: x 20].

Number of parts:

20

Legends:

general legend

Colouring:

Buildings, water, land-use: Hand-coloured: some open spaces light green.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished

Water transport infrastructure:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

utilities

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Heights to eaves and of towers, where applicable.

Public buildings:

shown

Welfare and charitable:

shown

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 145.b.8.

Industry:

shown

Railways:

routes, goods depots, motive power depots, platforms, rails, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

shown

Service and professional:

shown

Landowners and occupiers:

industrial owners: [Occupiers of larger retail and industrial premises].

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

shown

Monuments:

statues: [Statues named in George Square].

Cemeteries:

shown

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

shown

Retail activity:

shown generally

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1857-8

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1892-4

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560