We have published more than 2,000 maps in our series of Old Ordnance Survey Map reprints; this includes more than a hundred in Scotland, with a growing range of maps around Glasgow. The maps are highly detailed. They are taken from the OS 1:2,500 (or 25 inch) maps and reduced to about 15 inches to the mile. Each covers an area of a mile and a half by a mile. They show streets with individual houses, tram tracks, railway tracks and even signals, factories, wharves and such details as fountains and water troughs. They will provide hours of fascination for historians and genealogists. The maps are neatly folded and each includes a specially written introduction to the area. Maps can be purchased on our On-line Mapshop where further information about titles is given. Or visit The Index Page for a full list to the series and details of Prices.
Here are the details of maps for Kelvinside:
This very detailed map covers an area of NW Glasgow, together with smaller portions of Renfrewshire and Dumbartonshire. Gilbert Bell describes it as an area where "one can almost sense the energy of a great city undergoing dramatic change. Fields await development. Roads are laid out in the full expectation that buildings will soon line them. A railway is under construction and gas works ooze power for home and factory.... Glasgow in 1893 was growing spectacularly. Everything shown here within the city boundary had only been annexed in 1891 and everything beyond that boundary would be annexed in 1912." There is no central feature to the map, which includes part of Kelvinside (bottom right), part of Maryhill (top right), extends westward to the then city boundary and includes, within Renfrewshire, parts of Jordanhill and Anniesland, here largely undeveloped. But there is much of interest on the map. There are several railways, including the Stobcross Branch with Great Western Road station, part of the CR's Glasgow Central Line, the Forth & Clyde Canal, Kelvindale Paper Works, River Kelvin, Gas Works No 2 and 4, Beaconsfield Road and Montgomerie Crescent, Royal Lunatic Asylum, Claythorn, old ironstone pits, Temple of Garscube. On the reverse we include street directory extracts for Great Western Terrace and Montgomerie Drive, plus a railway timetable for the NBR's Maryhill/Singer to Bridgeton Cross line in 1918.
You might find this index map useful. The map links up with Sheets 6.02 Maryhill to the east, 6.05 Partick to the south.
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Maps in the Godfrey Edition are taken from the 25 inch to the mile map and reduced to about 15 inches to the mile. For a full list of maps for Scotland, return to the Scotland page.
The Godfrey Edition / godfreyedition@btinternet.com / 31 December 2006