maps

Now I should declare an interest here since this project runs from my day job, but what the hell. Layers of London is a historic mapping project covering the last 500 years or so of London's history through the medium of maps (London here meaning greater London, all 32 boroughs of it including...

Well, sort of. Here's a blog from the conservation team at The National Archives, Kew, which features plans drawn up for the L&Y and GNR prior to the construction of the (extant) buildings at Kirkgate. Hopefully this should give some sense of how fragile some of these documents are and how much...