Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2017 12:49:27 GMT
I spend far too much time on this site comparing maps of days gone by compared with how things look now on Google Earth.
maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/sidebyside.cfm#zoom=15&lat=53.6383&lon=-1.0395&layers=171&right=BingHyb
Stumbled across this the other day which is map drawn part way through the construction of the New Junction Canal one of our old regular haunts. The canal looks like it is in water from the Junction with the A&CN right up to Kirkhouse Road.
From there on it looks like the land is marked out and allocated for the canal construction but there is no canal actually built yet. The aqueduct over the River Don looks like it has been constructed however (though I note the map names ait as the River Dun (not Don) Navigation.
The old maps are great for seeing the location of many of the old waterways features as they were including coal basins, side locks abandoned locks and sections.
maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/sidebyside.cfm#zoom=15&lat=53.6383&lon=-1.0395&layers=171&right=BingHyb
Stumbled across this the other day which is map drawn part way through the construction of the New Junction Canal one of our old regular haunts. The canal looks like it is in water from the Junction with the A&CN right up to Kirkhouse Road.
From there on it looks like the land is marked out and allocated for the canal construction but there is no canal actually built yet. The aqueduct over the River Don looks like it has been constructed however (though I note the map names ait as the River Dun (not Don) Navigation.
The old maps are great for seeing the location of many of the old waterways features as they were including coal basins, side locks abandoned locks and sections.
Little Hadham smock mill, Hertfordshire.