Travel in time, witness the changes technology wrought upon Britain & beyond using our maps as a window into history, brought alive by our researchers & authors. Great Gifts! From £3.50 pp. https://www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/acatalog/home.html
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...but there's hope today; a footbridge over the Clyde links several excellent museums such as The Govan Stones, housing the aforementioned graves & is one of the earliest Scottish Christian sites. See our Govan 1909 map, also featuring Ibrox, for more #history. www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/lk0609.htm
#MapTourUK What links one of #Glasgow's greatest fictional residents, Rab C Nesbitt, and a collection of very rare Viking Christian Hogback burials? #Govan! Glasgow's riverside, once home to one of the Empire's mightiest shipbuilding districts, has been treated poorly over the last 50 years.. 1/
We're celebrating #Railway200 all month with our historic maps, join us on a journey across the country & over almost 200 years, witnessing the incredible changes the railways brought! Today - #York 1851, the new station, nestled amongst the cities' historic walls & memories.🚂🚄
A good pair of wellies and you'll be fine! -Andrew.
Did you know that in 1914, #NUFC was a short walk to an inner-city prison? Nearby there lay a now-defunct goods railway station! And yet for all the changes, 1914 #Newcastle looks quite familiar. Granger Market, Eldon Sq, St Thomas' Church survive, among others. www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/tyne11.htm
Ayresome Park years. To honour #MiddlesbroughFC and the start of the #Championship season today, we’re sharing three images from 1892, 1913 and 1928, charting the development of #MFC’s legendary old home ground, Ayresome Park – from 3 of our range of almost 4,000 #maps. (Images in next post.) 1/2
The country Durham area is... A choice. -Andrew.
As the biggest city in the UK by far, it's likely got the greatest density of places to worship, so presumably people of faith tend to, ahem, congregate there...? -Andrew
Put Texas back, please.
An old comic about the end of summer
![Further west again, we visit a living part of that old Ireland. The farm where the last stalwarts of my grandmother's generation live. [Great Uncle Ned, 84, Great Auntie Nellie, 90, Great Auntie Bernie, 89, sit chatting, hunched in chairs]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c2wojq7wy6zetlcqy7zfetmg/bafkreicj42stllcbdjwuhdwrxjbq7qlj5v5mpx5feq4jo7glydrzvjwvha@jpeg "Click to view full size")
If people really wanted to be patriotic, they'd buy reprinted OS maps. Ahem. www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/acatalog/hom...
#sundayvibes this morning with a fresh new #Map 💕 We're treating you to the village of Oundle, 1899. Just by reading the start of our introduction & first part of the historical extract you can tell this is a nice place, & seeing the excerpt confirms it! www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/nn1905.htm
Big month incoming! FOUR new maps! *Tyburnia 1865-93* *Metropolitan Cattle Market 1871-94* *Oundle 1899* *Braunston 1899* UK #Map tour! Plus we're celebrating #Railway200 throughout September! Join us for epic #history, wild stories, amazing people from the past & incredibly beautiful design. ❤️
What foodstuff makes the most satisfying *splat* when dropped from a great height? I can't think of a map question. -Andrew
A bit of cross posting today, as our Feature-Length (ok, 3 minutes) Film debut is too long for BlueSky! I'm showing you what you can expect with a full view of one of our great maps! -Andrew www.instagram.com/reel/DN8A_dL...
A lovely day to look at maps and dream yourself away ❤️
Often we'll include other historical curios, such as another local map or street directory, so you can get a real flavour of the past and learn how it became the present. And you get all that from just £3.50 per map plus postage. #bargain! #ItsNotJustAMap 3/3
Each of our #historic #maps are walked through on the ground in the modern day, by dedicated researchers and authors, to aid our historical research into the area. That information goes into the map notes and essays that accompany each map. 2/3
It's a hard life, on the cartographic front lines! Today we're sharing snapshots around the beautiful area of Marygate, #York, from our founder Alan Godfrey. 1/3 www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/york08.htm
Hey #Swifties... Do you know what makes a great wedding gift or even memorable wedding keepsakes? Reprinted historic maps. 😉🎁
I heard a good question today, does any #football club have more purpose built home grounds that are still active than #Everton? Anfield is a hand-me-down (😉), Goodison a WSL stadium and the fine Bramley Moore Dock is the current/new home. As a cheeky aside, we sell many maps containing stadia 😁
I remember it very fondly. One of those small budget - High concept shows from New Zealandish I think, that were great in the late 90s/00s. -Andrew
I like to think that Lexx is a divergence from some point in the Farscape universe. That makes no sense but the shows were so similar.
Note that this subscription is essentially for the new maps, not those already available. This special offer is for UK customers only. There is an Earlybird offer of £ 27.50 until the 26th September. Check out www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/acatalog/Sub... /3
The first map is expected to be published in November. Subscriptions give a great discount & support us in our mission to cover as many places as possible. Each map will include a specially written introduction. Maps are sent to subscribers postage free before general publication. 2/
SUBSCRIPTION ALERT! We plan to issue 10 new maps for Cambridge & District during 2025-6. We'll be extending coverage of Cambridge itself and other early titles are expected to include maps for Great Shelford and Sawston. The lead author will be Tony Kirby. www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/acatalog/Sub...
When I visited last year, I had no idea how beautiful or interesting the bay was. You're very lucky to live nearby! -Andrew.
Long before Walter White and Breaking Bad there was...
Andrew, chap behind a map, here. It's odd, but since looking over the recent #Bolton #maps I've really wanted to visit for the first time. Isn't it amazing how a little #history & a street layout can lead to dreams of exploration & comparisons with the past? www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss00...
This is how I feel about maps. - Andrew.
1000's of goods wagons rolling across the world began life here. As late as the 1970s, it was the worlds' biggest producer of rolling stock. Today, #Locomotion remains, well worth a visit. Shildon 1915 www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/shildon.htm £3.50pp, one of almost 4,000 #history -filled #maps #rail200
A powerhouse of industrial revolution, the railways needed a way to move the bounty of the mines to the expanding ports & beyond. Shildon was perfectly placed to become a dynamo of Empire & industry, one of the first towns to produce commercial railway engines & eventually standardised rail stock –
In 1821 Shildon held just 115 residents. In twenty years 2,631 called the town home, rising to over 11,700 by 1901. The reason? The railways, and the vast coal and iron deposits under the gloriously beautiful land of the North East of England. 2/4
“Where/what's Shildon?” It’s the sort of question a lot of people may ask when hearing the name of many half-forgotten places. #Shildon today is a small town in the North East, home to Locomotion, a fine #railway museum that sprawls across much of the footprint of its old claim to fame. 1/4
I loved walking through the city when I visited last year, I'd love to return soon. That river is very special. -Andrew
The towns & villages of the area often owe their existence to underground riches, and their histories are often partially subterranean too, the wealth they made long gone, what remans needs to be dug for in both land & literature. For this and almost 4,000 other maps, visit our website, link above.
Here, gorgeous jewellery and grave goods were found, leading to a female buried here to be called a ‘princess’, suggesting a different wealthy past to that of the later Victorian one noted on this map and its' notes, priced at £3.50 pp. 2/3
The Loftus Princess. **New Map!** Loftus (East) 1927 www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/yorks01804.htm A little to the north of Loftus, in the strangely named habitation of Street Houses, a 5,000-year-old landscape feature holds a later Anglo-Saxon burial ground, which was excavated between 2005-7. 1/3
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This is frustratingly tempting!
It’s 2027. There is only one Internet connected machine in the UK. It is a teletype. To access it you have to submit your query in writing 6 months in advance. Nobody under the age of 60 is allowed to touch the holy teletype after the “5318008”incident which led to the Great Fire of Wrexham.
Andrew, a chap behind a #Map account here! A rare personal post today. As the #Edinburgh #Fringe ends, I'm sad I missed another festival in that beautiful beguiling city. I miss her timeworn, timeless streets & the unique character of her stone & brick. If you need me, I'll be sighing at some maps.
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Velcrow Birds of a feather stick together. www.worldofmoose.com/products/vel...
The villages and towns of #Redcar & #Cleveland are historically linked to mining, mainly Ironstone & Alum. When those industries left, the area was soon linked with decline - a tragedy as the area is a beautiful one, filled with warm & hospitable people, pretty villages and a stunning coastline. /2
*New Map!* #Loftus (West) 1927 www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/yorks01803.htm Today’s image is a ‘miner’ spoiler of our much bigger & more intriguing #map. The wider view shows that the North East wasn’t just heavy industry, it was people & countryside, cinemas and sport, fishing and woodlands. 1/
There's a thought. Maybe we'd sell more if we flavoured our maps? Saltney & Vinegar? Cheese & Osmotherley? Reading Salted?
Have you seen our new #map posts this week? Many more stories to come, stay tuned!
What you’re seeing is thousands of years of continuity. Boundaries have always existed, for land or wealth, but some Victorians, Romans, Celts & our contemporaries know that knocking a gate in somewhere can be a good thing for everyone regardless of background, even if the walls are older than old.
What you’re seeing isn’t just a boring wall, a boundary between a charitable school for impoverished children and an upper-class park. In 2025 you can still see these restored Medieval walls, built upon #Roman foundations in the main, which in turn were built on earlier settlements... 2/3
#York Marygate 1851. www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/york08.htm This solid boundary looks permanent, eternal, rebuilt over millennia. But look closely and you’ll see gateways, holes between one side and another. Why share this quiet part of our #map, when the Museum Gardens are just a few inches away? 1/2
Drop a gif if you love #maps!
Big start to the season this weekend! Almost feels like there's been no break since last time though, doesn't it?! Looking back at my old maps, it almost feels like the game has never stopped - not a bad thing 😁 Why not check out www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/acatalog/hom... and search for your club?
Last year wasn’t a classic for #ManchesterUnited, but if history teaches us one thing– and it teaches us many things – it is that the good days return. One day, the #RedDevil will rise again. Own a memory from £3.50 plus postage. This and almost 4,000 other memories can be found on our website. 3/3
The 1965 Munich air disaster tore the heart of the club, a wound that never quite healed, but #ManU stood tall, rebuilt in the memory of its lost friends. Over the years hearts have broken, loves lost, hopes dashed, but the club remains, just as #OldTrafford remains – calmly awaiting better times.
*Featured Map!* Old Trafford 1915. www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/lancs10413.htm If you can say one thing about #manchesterunited, it is that they are resilient. Just before this map was published the club was embroiled in a huge scandal - players were accused of match fixing to avoid relegation. 1/3
#NewcastleUnited are unlikely to see a season as rough as 1914/15 this year. As our map sample shows, landmarks might remain but progress takes time & hard work. All the best to the magpies this year. Map link - www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/tyne11.htm Season review - nufc-history.co.uk/nufc-1914-15...
Got any good maps or puns about US States? Alaska. (Of course we do! www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/acatalog/)
I'm not from Liverpool, but the city embraced and cared for me for a decade. I'm an #EvertonFC fan, but a rare one, I wish #LiverpoolFC well! I truly wish both teams stay up and reach mid-table this year, all the best! 😉 -Andrew. PS: Check out the #Liverpool City map ranges. They're incredible!
Good #Friday Morning all! What's your favourite place in the UK? I love Edinburgh, Liverpool and Glasgow, and I really liked Birmingham and Norwich when I visited last year, but my favourite place is my back garden!
#Everton- the blue half of Liverpool. The first team to play at #Anfield and, dare I say it, the reason #Liverpool exist. Red or Blue though, a Scouser is a Scouser ❤️💙 Our Anfield 1890 #Map might be one of our most contentious maps for a fan, but what memories! alangodfreymaps.co.uk/lancs10607.htm
Me: Posts about #Alnwick ('Annick') last night. Also Me: Forgets I visited a few weeks back and have pictures. Also Also Me: Should have said that Alnwick is a great little place to visit and our #Map is a brilliant accompaniment! Ditto with our new #York maps 🤩
www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/learni... I found something that explains the terms, a new world for me! Sounds like an issue with Yahoo's security? -Andrew
Anyone understand email? As of yesterday, I can't send emails from my Gmail account to any Yahoo account. No problem before. No Gmail help, of course. "550 5.7.9 This mail has been blocked because the sender is unauthenticated. Yahoo requires all senders to authenticate with either SPF or DKIM."
Do you need to prove your age, in line with the new law for some reason? If that's the case I wish I could tell you how, best of luck x -Andrew
#Alnwick 1851. www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/nbl3209.htm The station closed in 1968 but is today a ‘celebrated second-hand bookshop’, with a great overhead model railway whirring above the packed shelves. Also the home of the ‘Keep Calm & Carry On’ craze. “Take this map and go exploring!”–Anthea Lang.
On 30th March 1834 Trinity Church brought two people together, although the event was divisive. Anne Lister & Ann Walker took Holy Communion together. So far so normal. But they saw the service as a wedding ceremony & went on to live as spouses. This has been seen as a key point in #LGBTQ+ #history.
April 16th, 1570. A baby, perhaps only three days old, is brought into St Micheal-le-Belfry for baptism by his parents. Their 2nd child, he will grow up to become one of the most infamous men in British #History and an icon for disruptors everywhere. Welcome to the Catholic church, Guy Fawkes. 2/3
York, The Minster & Bootham Bar 1851. www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/york09.htm Today’s image is an great example of how squashed together history can be. The two churches we see, seconds’ walk from the mighty #York Minster, house two very different moments in British #history that led to fireworks. 1/3
In 1919 when the map was published, the station & line were completed. It’s strange to think that people buying the #map couldn't quite use it in the way it was intended. It is a ghost-moment, a shadow lost in sunlight. Our maps are filled with stories like this, isn’t that lovely? #Tuesdayfeeling
**New Map** Monkseaton 1914. www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/nbl8612.htm How the Kaiser broke this #map. When this map was put together, a #railway & station were under construction, (see the shaded box and notation nearby). Then in 1914 war broke out with Cousin Wilhelm & priorities changed. 1/2
M1?! As a pedestrian of 41 years standing I find this cruel and unusual punishment 😜 -Andrew
2 - Second hand. 12 might defeat me to be fair. No wait, are we talking another language? Faint memory suggests German or Dutch for 12 starts with a Z and sounds a bit like 'howl'?
Is it the A1?
😂 I feel quite proud! Maybe you could do a map-based on next year 😉 -Andrew
12 - a midnight howl? Can't quite see what the second pic is... -Andrew.
1 - Optimus Prime, Prime being the first, optimus being something along the lines of Optimum, or top - top/first number?
#MapMonday! The best day of the week! And even better than Map Monday, we've got NEW MAPS! It's the Mappiest day of the week! 💃🕺 this week, watch out for posts involving historic lesbians, trains *inside* train stations, Kaisers breaking maps & holy walls! www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/acatalog/hom...
The 1816 Tenantry Column was paid for by ‘grateful’ tenants of the 2nd Duke of Northumberland, many were also part of a unit raised by him to fight Napoleon. It thanked the Duke for dropping rents by 25% during a post-war recession. After doubling them during the war, it must be noted. Nice Chap. /2
Alnwick 1851. www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/nbl3209.htm Pronounced ‘Annick’, today’s #map portrays a fine castle seen in both #HarryPotter and #DowntonAbbey, a fascinating public garden and a beautiful northern town, so why are we sharing an image of a boring column? The answer – Crap landlords. 1/2
While this might be as fictional as the books mentioned, the streets of 1894 haven't changed too much - as you’ll see from our sample. Why not enjoy our own #literature and #map, whether you’ve visiting this year or not, it’s a fantastic piece of #history for only £3.50 pp! 3/3
…RL Stephenson has made a surprise visit to talk about The Ebb Tide, HG Wells is pestering people with racy political ideas, Mr Kipling has been seen talking to Karl Marx over a sequel to The Jungle Book and Emile Zola is looking bored as Oscar Wilde witters to him in his ‘perfect’ French. 2/3
Welcome to the 1894 #EdBookFest! Big names and big moustaches this year - Arthur Conan Doyle is looking resigned as he sells his Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Jerome K Jerome signing copies of Three Men In A Boat… 1/3 Central #Edinburgh 1894. www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/ed0307.htm
You have Beef with the Pigs? - Andrew
1st image; #Middlesbrough Ironopolis home ground, a club related to #MFC. 2nd; Ayresome at around 10 years old. 3rd; Its establishment in the local area. www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/cgi-bin/sh00... -Central Middlesbrough maps. These maps and many others make great gifts for loved one. 2/2
Ayresome Park years. To honour #MiddlesbroughFC and the start of the #Championship season today, we’re sharing three images from 1892, 1913 and 1928, charting the development of #MFC’s legendary old home ground, Ayresome Park – from 3 of our range of almost 4,000 #maps. (Images in next post.) 1/2
Did you know that in 1914, #NUFC was a short walk to an inner-city prison? Nearby there lay a now-defunct goods railway station! And yet for all the changes, 1914 #Newcastle looks quite familiar. Granger Market, Eldon Sq, St Thomas' Church survive, among others. www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/tyne11.htm
Meet the #NewcastleUnited of the past in this and other local maps, priced from £3.50 plus postage from our website. We also have almost 4,000 maps covered the rest of the UK and beyond, so you’ll be able to plan away trips into #history too. Please note, printed map is clearer than sample. 4/4
Just like Liverpool, Manchester, London, and many other places, #Newcastle is unique. That might sound like a riddle, but consider – you KNOW when you’ve met a Geordie, just as you know you’ve met residents of other cities, and yet, the #Geordie is more unique somehow. 3/
From a single stand stadium to the neighbouring ironworks and a public urinal outside, it’s fair to say that St James’ & its immediate area has changed since 1914, but the spirit of the fans and the city remain. There is the same love and fraternity of the legendary black and white. 2/4
*Featured Map!* Central #Newcastle 1914. alangodfreymaps.co.uk/tyne11.htm One of 3 #maps covering almost 50 years, the middle of our trio is today's offering. #NUFC has a long & storied #history and these maps contribute to remembering that proud past as they look to a proud future. 1/4
These days, such speeds and shenanigans will at the very least get you a speeding ticket and an entry into a policeman’s notebook, but the area is still worth a quick trip, accompanied by a few of our #historic #maps, priced from just £3.50 plus postage. (Printed map is clearer than sample) 4/4
Lieutenant W E Johns was based here for a time as a flying instructor, notable crashing into a fellow officer’s back door, before later going on to write the #Biggles stories. Also paying a flying visit was Captain Roy Brown, the man credited with shooting down the Red Baron. 3/
In 1922 Sir Malcolm Campbell hit an unofficial land-speed record of 138.8mph in a borrowed 18-litre Sunbeam. He bought the car, renamed it #Bluebird and drove into the #history books at 145.16mph in 1924 in south Wales. 2/4
**New Map!** Marske-by-the-sea 1927. alangodfreymaps.co.uk/yorks00712.htm Today a smart little village south of #Middlesbrough, the sands of #Marske were once one of the birthing grounds of #British speed on both land and in the air. 1/4
Well done, all! -Andrew
Wouldn't that all be under 'U'? -Andrew
Happy Birthday, all the best.