Membership Cards and Sites Directories

In another life I was a navigator doing Historic Rallies in a classic Mini. So I have a crate full of maps - mostly with the covers removed (easier to handle in a tiny car) with various annotations on them, including notes and arrows to which map number followed on along the route.

Sorry - totally off topic!

Our collection is very much like yours Metheven👍

Mine too, as I find it very difficult to see the Whole Picture on a digital map.

My selection in the van for our present trip.

My collection was recently augmented by a great number of OS maps from my late-in-laws house, some going back over 50 years. I just loved having two fully open at once of the same area and noting the changes. It was fascinating to pinpoint my house from map back then which was just fields. Easily done as we are the highest point in this grid square and by two lanes back then that stills still exist today, although they are busy roads now. One of them is now the footbridge over the A1(M) just north of Washington services.

That’s not off topic, that really interesting about maps👍

We have some quite old maps as well Corners, particularly of Cornwall. It’s a County that has seen huge route changes, lots of changing towns and villages, lots of new buildings. We have a map that doesn’t even bypass Okehampton🤣 It’s got one of our favourite CLs on it though.🤣

My collection of OS maps, which predates the digital age and goes back to the 60s, stays firmly in a cupboard at home. I think the last time I bought one must have been in the mid to late 90s. If i want a paper copy of an area, I print it off from the digital versions.

Some of the older ones do make interesting reading for jogging the memory of how it used to be. One of mine still shows Milton Keynes as a village.

peedee

OS do some interesting gifts, we have a couple of quiz books we keep in MH. If anyone has someone interested learning how to read a map, they are good for this👍 I quite like old maps made into jigsaws as well. In our house, out of date road atlases are used as wrapping paper🤣

out of date road atlases are used as wrapping paper

I still use them as backup.

peedee

Our sites directory and map arrived today. 

We don't have any OS maps.

We do have road map books as backup to the satnav and maps on our phones. Never had the need for OS maps. 

Had a call from our winter caretaker today. He pops by to check the site's ok and empty the post box. The post box, or what's left of it is in the hedge, looks like it's been smashed off, no contents present Site is ok though). I suppose I'll ask for another sdhb when I get back

JK

Just goes to show how popular the SD is, JK.  So can you please put in a good word for them and discourage those at HO from considering the idea of getting rid of them.