Middlesex-Stepney: Bethnal Green-1900 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23472

Map Date:

8.1900

Repository reference:

Tower Hamlets Library, Local Studies section, maps 176, 177

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

Stepney: Bethnal Green

Map type:

municipal

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ347828

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3982

Map title:

'Map of the borough of Bethnal Green. As settled by the Commissioners appointed under the London Government Act 1900.'

Comments on map:

A superior example of the 'municipal' genre, showing very well how this style scores over the Ordnance Survey in the way that public buildings stand out.

Scale:

1:2500

Map-maker:

F.W. Barrett, F.S.I., Surveyor [? author], Waterlow & Sons Limited, London Wall, London [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

127.0 x 81.5

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours

Colouring:

boundaries

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

fire stations, gas works, misc: Fire Alarm Posts.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Anglican have dedications.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, police

Defence and military:

drill halls

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, dispensaries, hospitals, workhouses, misc: Children's Home.

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

Ward

Known copies of map:

Tower Hamlets nos 177, 327, London Metropolitan Archives [ex GLC Library] J. Bet. 11989 [1900]; London Metropolitan Archives [ex GLC Library] J. Bet. 3132, 4454 [1902].

Industry:

food/drink

Railways:

routes, goods depots, named, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, museums, libraries/newsrooms

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Pecked 'X' for under bridges.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1869

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1893-4

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560