Barnetts 1959

405mm x 517mm w (Cover: 267mm x 140mm w)

Barnetts 1959

Barnett's Map of Essex

Green & red cover, 6 Maps in 1, for One Shilling & Sixpence. Has no adverts for Barnett's Maps, but back cover has advert for Ernest Doe Tractors. On the back are maps of 3 towns - Southend, Clacton & Brightlingsea, plus distances from Clacton and from London.

Lettered columns columns and numbered rows form a grid, but there is no Index. Copyright GI Barnett. Based on the ordnance survey (sic!) by the permission of the Controllerv of HM Stationery Office.

Many adverts surround the main map as in 1955 - but the map has reverted to the same scale as in 1951.

Scale correct at 10 miles = 86mm, or 3.0 miles/inch, ie 1:185,000.

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); railways shown again in Kent.

Address is Rowallan House, Little Heath, Chadwell Heath, Essex, and no telephone number. (This was also the home address of Michael Barnett.) I assume this map to be 2/3 from 1951 (when founded) to datable 1963 map - hence 1959.

© Peter Walker 2014