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Zoom Meeting #33, 25th March 2025. 'Railway Maps Show-and-Tell.'

  • Presenter: Stuart Dennison
  • Format: Structured talk, followed by questions & answers
  • Attendees: 43
  • View the recording here, streaming length: 1h 39m

Carrying on with our transport maps theme, Stuart Dennison hosted a Zoom meeting featuring maps that are railway-related.

The maps shown cover the Ordnance Survey's, other mapping companies' offerings over a broad period of time. There are examples of broad, standard and narrow gauge railways. Gives a fair bit of scope to cover!

 


Zoom Meeting #32, 25th February 2025. 'Shell Road Maps.'

  • Presenter: Dr. Ian Byrne
  • Format: Structured talk, followed by questions & answers
  • Attendees: 39
  • View the recording here, streaming length: 1h 17m

Dr Ian Byrne presented a talk followed by a Q&A session entitled "Wherever you go, you can be sure of a Shell map".

Shell's operating companies sold or gave away branded maps at service stations in over 75 countries, starting on the West Coast of the USA in the 1920s, and covering much of Europe, including the UK, and Australasia by 1939.  In the 1950s & 1960s their global reach reached its peak with attractively designed, low-cost maps that were also available through its touring service.  Small numbers of Shell maps continued to be sold at late as 2020.

With around 2,200 Shell maps in his collection, Ian has sufficient to keep the talk lively and of general interest!