Nick Clarke shared these pictures showing a map of the old housing estate at Heilbronn Way in Aberavon, Wales “Gatepost-style memorial to the houses which stood where Heilbronn Way now looms over Aberavon”
Monthly archives: February 2020
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Day 9 of 12 Mappy Days of Christmas Alice shared these fabulous mappy Xmas trees Absolutely loved making this Map Forest thanks @GeomniUK for the books ! @TomTheMap #recycling #gettingchildrenmapping
Raf sent us this map that he spotted on the side of a motorcycle in Barcelona. I’m struggling to work out what the map represents – “Negative image of map embedded on the motorbike silhouette.” makes it no clearer to me.
Donna and I were in Marrakesh a couple of weeks ago and, as one does, we managed to get well and truly lost in the medina. The plus side of that was that we stumbled on Dar El Bacha – Musee des Confluences which is a beautiful museum that we […]
Anyone who knows me well will know that White Hart Lane (the home of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club) is a no go zone for me. Clare Nolan sent me this pic that she took while attending an NFL game at the Spurs ground recently. “Not sure if this one is […]
Justin Saunders sent us this map body model from Bordeaux “#maps #Bordeaux #france #mapsinthewild interesting maps in Bordeaux. Glass of wine anybody? “
Matt Finish spotted this map of Southampton in the Foyer of the Holiday Inn in appropriately enough Southampton.
Angharad Stone shared these pics of the Gare de Bordeaux St Jean with me. “The great map of the rail network or “midi” in Hall 1 of Gare de Bordeaux St Jean (Bordeaux St Jean train station) is currently covered up for restoration, so here is photo I took of […]
Michael Gould shared this pic from Johannesburg airport. I’m looking forward to a taster when we next meet up.
Clare Nolan shared these pics of an exhibition in Berlin from 2012 “Old one this, but looking through old photos for somat. This is at Schlossplatz in 2012, an exhibition called Berlin:City of Diversity. #Berlin 🇩🇪” There’s some more info on this 1:775 scale map of Berlin here
I visited the Tutankhamun exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery. This is the cartouche for Tutankhamun on the lid of a box found in his burial chamber. I’d always thought that a cartouche was a mappy thing but originally it was “an oval with a line at one end at right […]