Warwickshire-Birmingham-1887 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19038

Map Date:

[1887]

Repository reference:

RGS Library

Historic county:

Warwickshire

Town name:

Birmingham

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SP067868

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 0888

Map title:

'Centre of Birmingham.'

Comments on map:

In K. Baedeker, Great Britain ... handbook for travellers, Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, and London: Dulau, 1887, f.p. 254, 2nd edition, 1890, f.p. 254, 3rd edition, 1894, f.p. 254, 4th edition, 1897, f.p. 258. [Text is by J.F. Muirhead: see p.v.]

Scale:

1:7000

Map-maker:

Wagner & Debes Gegl. Estabt. Leipsic [? dr, pr], [Karl Baedeker, Leipsic, Dulau & Co., London [pb]].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

20.1 x 15.1

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, roads: Both buildings and road casings are on brown plate.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

drill halls

Education and academic:

schools, further educational/colleges

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Known copies of map:

BL 10108.d.13, 10108.ccc.15 [1887]; BL 10109.aa.3 [1890]; BL 10108.d.30 [1894]; BL 10108.ddd.30 [1897]; RGS library [in K. Baedeker, Great Britain ... handbook for travellers, Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, and London: Dulau, 1887, f.p. 254, 2nd edition, 1890, f.p. 254, 3rd edition, 1894, f.p. 254, 4th edition, 1897, f.p. 258].

Railways:

routes, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms, misc: Conservatory [musical, not hothouse].

Parkland:

public parks

Clubs and societies:

Freemasons, learned societies, unspecified

Monuments:

Monuments, statues

Reference system:

squaring: 2.75 cm squaring.

Street tramways:

routes shown

Ordnance Survey's

1887-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560