The Geographia Map Company

Interwar suburbs come into view street by street in these vintage maps by the Geographia Map Company, the British publisher ...

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Interwar suburbs come into view street by street in these vintage maps by the Geographia Map Company, the British publisher whose local sheets record the built landscape in close detail. The examples, dated 1933, cover Esher, Northwood, Watford, Beddington, Carshalton and Chislehurst, each title naming the surrounding districts too. Drawn at the scale of everyday journeys rather than a county atlas, they show a neighbourhood in relation to the roads and settlements around it. The collection runs from the 1920s into the 1960s, so a London-area locality can be followed through several moments of suburban mapping.

Interwar suburbs come into view street by street in these vintage maps by the Geographia Map Company, the British publisher whose local sheets record the built landscape in close detail. The examples, dated 1933, cover Esher, Northwood, Watford, Beddington, Carshalton and Chislehurst, each title naming the surrounding districts too. Drawn at the scale of everyday journeys rather than a county atlas, they show a neighbourhood in relation to the roads and settlements around it. The collection runs from the 1920s into the 1960s, so a London-area locality can be followed through several moments of suburban mapping.

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