Yorks-Middlesbrough-1855
CBTM:
20170
Map Date:
? 1855
Repository reference:
Teesside Archives U/OME 8/5
Historic county:
Yorks, North Riding
Town name:
Middlesbrough
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NZ496203
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NZ 4820
Map title:
'Plan of Middlesbro'.'
Comments on map:
According to Teesside Archive catalogue this dates from 1855. No 'ordinary' building development is shown, and this makes a striking contrast with the vignettes. The whole thing looks like an enlarged study for a published map, but it retains 'rural' field numbers, i.e. deriving from Exeter 20163, etc. Was it for 'boardroom' display?
Scale:
1:3168*
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
122.5 x 82.5 [framed].
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
water, decorative, other: Multi-colour vignettes, border and cartouche: some 'rural' land tinted.
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
some or all buildings omitted.: Some industrial and public buildings shown, but not described.
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, misc: Staiths shown in plan, but not described.
Known copies of map:
Teesside Archives U/OME 8/5.
Industry:
uncertain: Apparent from building shapes.
Railways:
routes, named, passenger stations
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
symbolic/non-realistic: Title on plinth, with blast furnace to left and sailing ship to right, anchors to left and right, artists palette, jug, hammer and anvil and other objects above, and three figures surmounting title: two crouching seem to be offering miniature globes (??) to a female with a ball and branch: the iconography is individual. Symbol of prosperity?
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Seven: one is recognisable as the railway station, another of the dock entrance, and a third is 'Cargo Fleet': dominated by five-sail windmill.
Borders:
decorative: Fancy corners with fruit and snakes.
Symbolic elements:
Furnace, ship, anchors, palette, hammer, anvil, globes, human figures: around title.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal: [Presumed so: bottom centre of border].
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1852
1:1056
1:10,560
1853-7
1:1056
1:10,560
1893-4
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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