Following on from the 1884 Brownhills South and Walsall Wood map and others posted recently, I’ve dived into the digital archive after a request by reader Mike Hawes and pulled out the 1:2,500 scale gems from 1884 and 1914.
They show a rapidly expanding Aldridge, with a huge and growing area of collieries, brickworks and marl pits to the north, and a complex railway infrastructure. The current arterial road of Northgate had yet to be built and would run, as it does today, to the west of Leighs Wood.
For David Evans, wells are extensively noted with the ‘W’ mark. Other abbreviations are decoded by the Ordnace Survey themselves here.
1:2,500 scale 1884 draft of Aldridge northwest. This is a digitally archived copy, so should be accurate if overlaid on Google Earth. Download a high quality version from the links below.
You can download copies of the above map at high resolution below. They’re quite large, so patience will be required on slow connections.
1884 Aldridge Northwest – PDF – 2.2 megabytes
1884 Aldridge Northwest – JPEG image – 7.5 megabytes
1:2,500 scale 1914 draft of Aldridge northwest. This is a digitally archived copy, so should be accurate if overlaid on Google Earth. Download a high quality version from the links below.
You can download copies of the above map at high resolution below. They’re quite large, so patience will be required on slow connections.