Delights and disappointments from an 1873 Map
A few weeks back I wrote about being excited to find this 150 year-old map at the UK National Archives:
The map was drawn as part of Governor Kennedy's sales pitch to the UK government to build a new road, shown by the red line on the map. That was definitely part of the map's story, but I also wanted to write about some of the other features I'd seen.
Delights
Here are examples of items on the western part of the map that caught my interest.
- A: Ouchterlony Battery.
- B: Queen's Road West ends here (roughly where St Louis School stands today), as the land to the west is occupied by the battery.
- C: The map shows the streams that are mostly hidden in underground pipes today. This one runs in a nullah along the centre of Water Street. It's the first time I've noticed that.
- D: The buildings marked in red are also worth a closer look, as they were government property. Ouchterlony Battery is an example of a military site, while D's arrow points to the No. 7 Police Station.
Here is another crop, this one showing Central district: