Lancashire-Liverpool-1888 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21239

Map Date:

10.1888

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 145.b.16

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Liverpool

Map type:

Insurance

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SJ342905

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 3691

Map title:

'Insurance plan of Liverpool.'

Comments on map:

Note of population, water supply and fire-fighting equipment on graphic index sheet at 1:4800, which covers a larger area than the detailed plans. Letterpress index to streets, 'specials', i.e. commercial premises, public buildings, etc, office buildings, and Custom House Bonds. Vol I October 1888, surveyed April to October 1888; Vol II July 1890, of the docks, mostly 1:2400 and 1:960; Vol III October 1890, some at 1:960, with some isolated warehouses, etc, at Birkenhead and Seacombe (sheet 52) surveyed August to October 1890; Vol IV August 1894.

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 21+13+16+15].

Number of parts:

65

Legends:

general legend

Colouring:

Buildings, water: Hand-coloured; vol IV only has red and pink buildings, according to eave-heights.

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

Public/administrative boundaries:

uncertain: Liverpool-Bootle boundary.

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 145.b.16.

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

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Sheets 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 38, 46: sections through warehouses, etc; sheet 31: five coloured 'Styles of Iron Shutters to Grain Bands'; sheet 35: Sketch section of Petroleum Storage Wharf; sheet 38: Sketch of shoots to silos.

Cemeteries:

shown

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

shown

Retail activity:

shown generally

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1847-8

1:1056

1:10,560

1864

1:1056

1:10,560

1888-90

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560