Lincolnshire-Grimsby-1896
CBTM:
21229
Map Date:
4.1896
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 145.b.11(3)
Historic county:
Lincolnshire
Town name:
Grimsby
Map type:
Insurance
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
TA266091
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TA 2607
Map title:
'Insurance plan of Great Grimsby.'
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, two plans at 1:2400, including fragnmentary data, mostly to cover the docks, and seven sheets at 1:480. Letterpress index to streets and 'specials', i.e. commercial premises, public buildings, etc. Note on sheet 3 about timber stacking on the docks.
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 10].
Number of parts:
10
Colouring:
Buildings, water: Hand-coloured: red and pink buildings.
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:
Maps 145.b.11(4).
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:
On sheet 9: section through Prince of Wales Theatre. [The plan on the map includes 'Wine & spirits stored to gallery'.]
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
A small hand for 'Continued below' on sheet 6.
Cemeteries:
shown
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
shown
Retail activity:
shown generally
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1886-7
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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