Find your street and see historical map overlays

[edcam]

A friend of mine on FB found this and it's fascinating. You can enter your street name and overlay old maps to see how your area has changed. Best to select maps from England and Wales from the drop down if you're in London and then you can choose from various maps and move the slider to make the map more or less transparent.

Some may find this dull but stuff like this fascinates me.

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#

[dbboy]

Thanks, really interesting to see how things have changed over the years.

[TheCat]

I love geeky things like this. thanks for posting

[DaveR]

If you are interested in that site it's worth looking at the LSE Booth Project:

https://booth.lse.ac.uk/

The most interesting that I've found are the notebooks - you can search for your street name or any other keywords here:

https://booth.lse.ac.uk/notebooks

For example, this is the beginning of the account of a walk round East Dulwich/Peckham in November 1899 by one of Booth's reporters, accompanied by PC 'Taffy' Jones:

https://booth.lse.ac.uk/notebooks/b375#?cv=3&c=0&m=0&s=0&z=76.1703%2C-12.0275%2C2330.4593%2C1386.1111

Quite a lot of the content is limited to the appropriate colour for each street (for the 'poverty map') but there are some fascinating additional comments, particularly in the 'general notes' at the end. For example:

"North of Upland Road to East Dulwich Road is a lower middle class area. Shoals of silk-hatted people leave these roads every morning for the City."

[nxjen]

There are other Booth notebooks which are not yet available online but I believe are in the process of being digitised. These includes interviews with local clergy throughout London. Not for a moment considering these interviews would be available for all to see 100 years later, some of them are most wonderfully indiscreet.

[Townleygreen]

wonderful map resource!!