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SurfaceAgentX2Zero 3:13 Mon Jul 30
This is rather good

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/spy/index.cfm#zoom=17&lat=51.5311&lon=0.0386&layers=168&b=1&r=30.

mallard 1:09 Tue Jul 31
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Great discovery Surf, I’ve been on it for the past hour!

Westham67 8:32 Tue Jul 31
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Cheers Suface quite interesting

Looking at my home town of Daggers population 1931 and 1939 gone from pea and hops fields to one of the biggest housing estates in the country

Population 200,000 now

Mex Martillo 8:20 Tue Jul 31
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Excellent
The house in which I grew up was an orchard, which confirms the hearsay that the area was named after the apple orchards that were there.

zebthecat 9:57 Mon Jul 30
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Thanks Surf.

It is, indeed, rather good.

The area I live in was bang in the middle of a country estate on the old map.

Hermit Road 9:51 Mon Jul 30
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What sort of place was that then?

ironsofcanada 6:22 Mon Jul 30
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I love the old names. One of places my wife used to work is called the Warneford Asylum for Lunatics.

Northern Sold 6:14 Mon Jul 30
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Shit hot I can see our Vulcan Bomber at RAF Rochford (aka London Southend airport).... love this...


https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/spy/index.cfm#zoom=17&lat=51.5727&lon=0.7057&layers=168&b=1&r=27

Alwaysaniron 6:06 Mon Jul 30
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Yep like this. Very interesting

Northern Sold 6:02 Mon Jul 30
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Superb that.... love a few roads up from the Boleyn Tower.... `Smallpox Hospital` (next doors the Mortuary).... blast from the past that !!

Hammer and Pickle 5:57 Mon Jul 30
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That's an excellent tool - thank you.

Fifth Column 5:55 Mon Jul 30
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Cheers Surface. I love this.

Mart O 5:49 Mon Jul 30
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Agreed, excellent stuff. Cheers for sticking it up.

Pee Wee 5:18 Mon Jul 30
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That's superb.

Thanks for posting

Far Cough 5:06 Mon Jul 30
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Yes, she was

arsene york-hunt 5:04 Mon Jul 30
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So was Ann Boleyn a West Ham fan?

ironsofcanada 4:59 Mon Jul 30
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It is great

I use it when doing genealogy to get an idea of the area my people came from.

Almost always count on the rail lines to stay relatively constant even in all the changes to the East End.

Hornchurch Dave 3:23 Mon Jul 30
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Hermit Road 3:17 Mon Jul 30

If I was sitting where I was a 100 years ago, I'd have been working on a farm.

Hermit Road 3:17 Mon Jul 30
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It’s bloody excellent.

Good find.