Having a Wale of a time in Central #Cardiff 1916. The joys of maps are (ahem) many-fold. One is sudden recognition; I immediately recognised Cardiff Arms Park & the hotel I stayed in recently, the routes taken past the Castle & surrounding streets. The dockside's changed hugely in 110yrs though!

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#CombatCartography A Spittal Spa, a Tweedmouth & a pile of batteries by the sea: Tweedmouth 1922! One of my (Andrew) favourites today, Anthea Lang’s introduction is filled with Jacobites, raucous railways, industrial intrigue & our usual seasoning of architectural colour, local flavour & history.

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5/ This part didn’t really fit in with my main #MapWalk this week, but I wanted to document the bridge, because it shows very starkly how today’s city landmarks were once new & invasive, often a massive disruption to ordinary peoples’ lives – just like railways were, and Roman invasions!

4/ Back to Pilgrim Street. The steep, wide road seems to be in a kind of temporal battle between the 19th & 21stC. On one side, 200 year old frontages look out - battered, scarred and overpainted. On the other, stark, high-rise flats & offices.

3/ A quick digression – the Laing Gallery is an excellent place to visit and has a wonderful permanent display of paintings charting the development of the city. One painting of the building of the High-Level Bridge shows how destructive progress generally, and Tyne Bridges in particular, can be!

2/ The Tyne Bridge is *the* Newcastle Icon (sorry Ant & Dec and Alan Shearer). As we can see by our maps, the building of this bridge was a huge disruption not only to the locals, but to their centuries-old streets. Much of Pilgrim Street was crushed and remade by the construction.

#MapWalks 4 – The TYNE TERMINATOR. We’re back on with our #Newcastle & #Gateshead maps today (1894/1914/1940), and the development of the Tyne riverside. What we see today is a slightly sad, sightly hopeful view; remnants of past centuries jostle for relevance with modern buildings. 1/6👇

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…in 1940 the stadium has expanded, and the Tyne Brewery had grown too, & larger factory buildings had taken the place of small ones. All gone today; city life moves on and changes but the city endures, its past can be found if you know where to look, and have the right guide! 4/

On my last part of this short #MapWalk, I focussed my Central Newcastle maps of 1914 & 1940 – what an odd thing that these maps both came out around the outbreaks of World Wars! – onto the storied stadium of St James’ Park. On first glance across our maps, little seems to have changed, however…3/

For a moment I was able to share a similar view to someone centuries before – perhaps a merchant, looking for a quieter gate on market day. Locals looked at me briefly, as they would have done then too, I suppose, if our fictional merchant had been moving a map around to align themselves! 2/

I followed this last line, noting the names of lost towers in pub names, and soon found myself down a half-forgotten side street and at the 750yr old city wall itself. A long stretch survived almost intact close to St James’ Park, but that’s a view for another map and tomorrow! 3/🧵 end.

…faint lines on my AGM map told me something my modern online map didn't. Here ran Hadrian’s Wall! Looking towards the station, there had also been a large Vallum, or Roman ditch. Beyond that, the later city wall had been built, which may have been less successful at keeping the Scots out! 2/🧵

#MapWalks 2! Stepping further back in time on my tour, our #Newcastle and #Gateshead 1914 map gives us over 1900 yrs of information! I found myself in the slightly salubrious grounds of St John the Baptist church, a short walk north of the railway station. Checking my map, I gazed at history… 1/🧵

Looking out at some grassy scrubland, slowly being reclaimed by weeds and new flats, the old city felt a little less permanent. Perhaps I would find something more reassuringly enduring later? Join us tomorrow for Romans! 4/End of thread🧵

My next stop/change was far more seismic. The Forth Yard dominates part of the 1940 map near the river; almost half the map is given over to the rail industry. Today, only the station and some forlorn car parking hint at what once was. Part of the huge Forth Banks site is now the Utilita Arena! 3/🧵

From my hotel to the river; Much of the terracing had gone, but the footprint remained, even partially in the layout of a new park by Scotswood Road. Interestingly, the religious sites –and that of the masonic lodge– survived on one side of Maple Terrace, while the college had evolved over time. 2/🧵

Hunslet 1905. Our introduction notes the importance to the world of #Leeds' industrial output. Central to that was Hunslet. The expansion noted here is common to many UK cities of the era, but it looks very stark on opening this map & seeing endless lines of yardless, airless, cramped tiny houses.

Wupperal-Barman 1945. A rich map historically, our introduction touches upon Friedrich Engels (who wrote ‘The Condition of the Working Class in England’ here), religious opposition to Nazism, the development of Aspirin and the early development of the railways in Germany. #CombatCartography

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Kenton, Fawdon & Coxlodge 1941. Sometimes I’ll see a map and think “mildly diverting”, then I’ll read our introduction & find myself scouring the sheet for the names mentioned with sudden deep interest; this is the case with John Griffiths’ text! 3-mile long tunnels to #Newcastle are only the start!