New Popular Edition 1945-1948

Ordnance survey New Popular Edition Site Centred maps printed at 1:50,000.

The mid 1940s was a period of intense regeneration and renewal in Britain.  Many of the urban areas revealed by the New Popular Edition maps are almost as large as they are today, but the maps also reveal ancient features that were soon to disapperar for good: for many other changes were on the way.  If the Old Series describes the age of the horse and cart, the Revised New Series that of the railways and the Popular Edition that of the dawn of the motor car, the New Popular Edition of the late 1940s is perhaps the map of the planner.  Many schemes, some national some local, were proposed in the post-war years, including motorways, airports, new towns and retail parks.  The new Popular Edition elegantly captures the material which planners and developers were to use, for better or worse, to create the Britain that we know today.

Map dates between 1945 and 1948.

 

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