Betts' British Empire Exhibition Map
The British Empire Exhibition originally ran between April and November 1924, but it was not a financial success, and the decision was taken to reo...
View full detailsThe British Empire Exhibition originally ran between April and November 1924, but it was not a financial success, and the decision was taken to reo...
View full detailsThe British Empire Exhibition was, at the time, the largest exhibition staged anywhere in the world; a high profile, postwar statement of confidenc...
View full detailsSince its first publication in 1862, and before the detailed Ordnance Survey map of London, Stanford's scrupulously revised and updated Library Map...
View full detailsThis map of London was published in the Report of the Royal Commission on London Traffic, a detailed eight volume investigation of the nature, admi...
View full detailsThis pictorial map of London is generally dated 1931 in institutional catalogues, but here Geographia’s date-code for November 1934 is worked into ...
View full detailsThis pictorial map depicts various London ‘types’ in the borders, and shows the Royal Festival Hall (built for the 1951 Festival of Britain) and th...
View full detailsRiver Thames Wharf Chart, Sheet 3, showing tiers, moorings, etc. between Barking Creek & Hole Haven. Condition & Materials Folding map, 75...
View full detailsA first edition of the famous diagram from January 1933 Beck’s diagram is one of the most innovative and influential designs of the twentieth centu...
View full detailsGarbutt believed he had ‘rescued’ the London Underground map from the clutches of Harold Hutchison and his ‘ham-fisted parody’ of Beck’s designs ...
View full detailsDistrict within ¼ mile radius [of] South Harrow Stanford’s was a firm of map publishers as well as map retailers until after the Second World War, ...
View full detailsBy Green Line from Hyde Park Corner This pair poster was issued in April 1947 for the start of the first summer of the fully re-instated coach netw...
View full detailsDistrict within ¼ mile radius [of] Turnpike Lane Stanford’s was a firm of map publishers as well as map retailers until after the Second World War,...
View full detailsThe District Railway Guide to the Greater Britain Exhibition, the Gigantic Wheel, &c, at Earls Court The Greater Britain Exhibition was one of ...
View full detailsPlan of St Marylebone 1900 Detailed map of the Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone as created by the London Government Act 1899, coloured to show...
View full detailsMap with lines showing the boundary for free collection and delivery of parcels and passengers’ luggage The main map shows central London, includin...
View full detailsThe critics have not been kind to Harold Hutchison, and nor have we. His design, which replaced Beck’s diagram, was unveiled to the public – and to...
View full detailsHarold Hutchison believed that he could design a superior version of the Beck diagram himself. He was wrong. With a print code dated January 1960, ...
View full detailsDistrict within ¼ mile radius [of] Monument Stanford’s was a firm of map publishers as well as map retailers until after the Second World War, with...
View full detailsMary Sims and Mary Camidge, both signing as 'of Maps and Guides, Ltd', each produced posters for British Railways (Eastern Region) in 1960. They th...
View full detailsThe map shows bus, tram and train services operated by the Underground Group and is very similar to the pocket map issued in guidebooks c.1924 (ill...
View full detailsStanford’s New Map of the County of London on the Scale of Four Inches to One Mile This new edition of Stanford’s map was advertised in a variety o...
View full detailsThis is an unusually nice example of the second, October issue of this geographic style map. It is often browned: in the months after the Armistice...
View full detailsBeck’s diagram is possibly one of the most innovative and influential designs of the 20th century. First published in 1933, Beck remained directly ...
View full detailsParticulars, with Plans, Key Plan and Conditions of Sale of the Hoxton Estate The Hoxton estate passed by marriage from the Pitfield to the Sturt f...
View full detailsThis is a good example of the second ever edition of Harry Beck's famous diagram to appear in poster form; dated August 1933 it was the first to be...
View full detailsThis is an interesting example of the London underground map produced under difficult wartime conditions. A number of variants of this map were iss...
View full detailsClang, clang, clang went the trolley… Trolleybus services were introduced to London in 1931 and phased out between 1954 and 1962, making this one o...
View full detailsUnderground Map of Central London/A Guide to Underground Travel, Through Service Sth. Harrow and the West End Leboff and Demuth draw attention to t...
View full detailsUnderground Railways of London/What to see and how to travel: Map of the Electric Railways of London The continuation of lines in the margins is no...
View full detailsThis District Railway map of Greater London shows the approximate extent from Epsom to Enfield and from Windsor to Grays, with inset of the Henley ...
View full detailsMap of London shewing Goods, Coal and Passenger Stations, Depots and Receiving Offices of the London & North Eastern Railway, also the Ordinary...
View full detailsUn-titled, undated and without a printer, this exceptionally scarce early poster was created for display in stations, but establishing which ones p...
View full detailsThis pictorial map of London employs an unusual form of Turkish fold which makes use of inclined folding lines. The map is a simplified pocket vers...
View full detailsMacDonald Gill, brother of Eric, was a successful commercial artist in his own right, and a noted calligrapher who designed the font used on all he...
View full detailsThis iteration of the UERL common design marks George Philip & Son’s first official map for the Underground Group; the firm had designed the fi...
View full detailsThe earliest versions of this map advertised the Franco-British Exhibition which closed at the end of October 1908, marked here as ‘Exhibition’. In...
View full detailsOur map shows bus, tram and train services operated by the Underground Group and is very similar to the pocket map issued in guidebooks c. 1924. T...
View full detailsThe London General Omnibus Company was by this point owned by the Underground Group and this is an early attempt at transport integration, with the...
View full detailsBacon’s large scale plan of the City of London Condition & Materials Folding map, 42.5 x 71 cm, printed in colours, laid on linen as issued, a ...
View full detailsNew Map of London with the recent improvements Condition & Materials Folding map, 51.5 x 77.5 cm, dissected into 32 panels and laid on linen as...
View full detailsA Map of the Metropolitan Boroughs within the County of London The date of publication in the lower margin of this map is significant: 25th October...
View full detailsCondition & Materials Lithograph, 34 x 51 cm, colour printed, blank verso; a map of South East London prepared for the second edition of the Lo...
View full detailsThe first edition of this map was printed in 1932 but the introduction of Beck's diagram in 1933 did not obviate the need for geographically accura...
View full detailsThis issue of the London Underground map, the last of Beck’s pre-war card folders, features on its reverse an enlargement of the central area with ...
View full detailsThis was the first official London Underground passenger map to be printed since spring 1943, at least partly due to paper shortages. When printed ...
View full detailsUnderground Railways of London What to see and how to travel: Map of the Electric Railways of London Condition & Materials Summer 1925 issue of...
View full detailsMetropolitan Goods Conference Map of Collection & Delivery Boundary This map is a variant of the London plan typically issued with Kelly’s Dire...
View full detailsSurvey of the country around London to the distance of thirty two miles from St Paul’s The map extends between Ware and Chatham, Bray and Dorking. ...
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