Beacontree Press 1951

410mm x 520mm w (Cover: 189mm x 120mm w)

Beacontree Press 1951

Large Scale Easy to Read Map of Essex

Bright red text on pale red cover. Back cover has London Tube Map, with no Victoria line. There are no 3rd party adverts at all.

The map is the Barnett's 1951 map as described earlier.

Displayed scale of 10 miles = 86mm, or 3.0 miles/inch, ie 1:190,000.

Trunk roads in thick cased red, A roads in cased red, B roads in cased dashed red, and double black lines for Other roads. Shows railway line to Tollesbury Pier (swept away by floods in 1953); includes railways in Kent.

Address on the front cover is The Map Centre, 33 Green Lane, Ilford, Essex, but on the back cover it is Rowallan House, Little Heath, Chadwell Heath.

© Peter Walker 2014