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Lanarkshire-Glasgow-1894

CBTM:
22956
Map Date:
1894
Repository reference:
Glasgow City Archives D-TC 332/A-D
Historic county:
Lanarkshire
Town name:
Glasgow
Map type:
municipal
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NS592652
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NS 5864
Map title:
'Road map of the county of the city of Glasgow & vicinity'.
Comments on map:
This seems to be the ultimate in 'municipal maps', even though it is nothing like as elaborate as the Edinburgh map of 1891 [Exeter 22847]. Title top left: 'author' bottom left; Bartholomew bottom right. Sheet assembly diagram top left. The way that names are broken across neat lines suggests that the parent copperplate sheet lines differ from this lithographic version.
Scale:
1:5400
Map-maker:
Office of Public Works, Glasgow, A.B. Macdonald, Mem. Inst. C.E., City Engineer [? author], John Bartholomew & Co., Edinr. [dr, pr].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
104.5 x 91.0 [neat lines: printed area 104.5 x 94.5] [x 4]
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, archways: Frontages: no infill. [Archways are pecked 'X'].
Canals:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
wharfs
Sanitary and utility information:
electricity works, fire stations, gas works, rubbish destructors, municipal depots, reservoirs, water works, sewage disposal: [Cleansing Department Stables, Refuse Dispatch Works].
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, customs, police, internal revenue
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
barracks, drill halls
Welfare and charitable:
blind, deaf & dumb, dispensaries, hospitals, mental, orphanages, workhouses, misc: Discharged Female Prisoners Refuge, Humane Society's House, Model Lodging Houses, Old Men & Women's Instn, YMCA.
Education and academic:
schools, further educational/colleges
Markets and exchanges:
bazaars, exchanges, markets, misc: City Chambers.
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds, recreation grounds
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
misc: City boundary.
Known copies of map:
Glasgow City Archives D-TC 13/332 A-D.
Industry:
bricks/tiles, chemicals, distilling, engineering, metallurgical processing, ship yards, oil/soap etc, rope walk, textiles, timber, abbatoirs
Railways:
routes, goods depots, motive power depots, named, turntables, rails, passenger stations, misc: No rails shown under roofs: routes through tunnels shown. Carriage sheds.
Leisure and entertainment:
baths/spa, public halls, theatres, etc, museums, libraries/newsrooms, art galleries
Parkland:
public parks: Parks with Bandstands, Fountain, Flagstaff.
Waterbodies:
shown, curling ponds, misc: Model Yacht Pond.
Clubs and societies:
learned societies
Extractive activity:
coal, quarries/pits
Monuments:
memorials, Monuments: [Langside Battlefield Memorial, Nelson's Monument].
Ferries:
ferry
Cemeteries:
shown: With paths.
Street tramways:
stables: [One Stables has a granary].
Miscellaneous religious group:
Convent.
Ordnance Survey's
1857-8
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1892-4
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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