West Bromwich 1902

Staffs Sheet 68.10b West Bromwich 1902 - published 1988; intro by John Maddison. ISBN.978-0-85054-159-5 These detailed, busy maps cover most of the town of West Bromwich. Coverage stretches from Bond Street and St John's church northward to West Bromwich Workhouse, and from Claypit Lane eastward to Dartmouth Park. Features on the 1886 version include town centre with individual buildings neatly delineated, Christ Church, St Andrew's church, Scale & Spring Balance Works, Town Hall, GWR railway with West Bromwich and Swan Village stations, part of Dartmouth Park, tramway, Guns Village area, Ireland Green Colliery; several disused collieries including Cordley, Cutlers End, Whyley, Tantany and Cronehills Collieries; Albion Bluebrick Works, Victoria Bluebrick Works, Albion football ground, Lyndon, Workhouse, etc. This edition is colour printed, taken from the beautiful handcoloured 1st Edition. The 1902 version covers the same area at a later stage, showing how it changed over those years.

Reduced from the original Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map to a scale of approximately 1:4,340 (or about 15" to the mile). This edition published by Alan Godfrey Maps, Leadgate, Consett