Pleach

By Pleach

Leith changes

After visiting the map exhibition (Jan 3) I decided to look at my collection of well over 100 UK maps, some of which are many years old. But I also have some reproductions of Victorian maps and found it interesting to compare routes of former railway lines and the changes to the Leith Docks area near Edinburgh. The former seashore has been reclaimed and built upon as has happened with docksides throughout the world.
These maps show OS maps of the Leith shore and I have tried to make them all a similar scale
1858 reproduction of First edition
1926 reproduction of popular edition
1965 seventh series
1999 landranger
2012 ? (photo taken from computer screen)

(best viewed large)

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