Sydenham/Forest Hill bomb damage

[catscratch]

They have been and I believe you can find them at central library.

Under the unbelievable title of
"LCC bomb damage maps"

[Steve Grindlay]

would it be possible for someone to publish them?

Catscratch is right; they were published in 2005 by the London Topographical Society, in a limited edition to members only. They do occasionally come up for sale; a copy sold for £135 some months ago.

[Thomas]

Thanks - I think £135 is a bit steep even for something like this! I was thinking that it would be good to sell individual maps (e.g. of Upper Sydenham) at a much lower price rather like you can buy the old Ordinance Survey maps of the area. Making copies available only to LTS members on a limited basis doesn't quite seem the same as proper publishing to me!

[marymck]

Thomas: I think they are published in a book. I'm thinking of ordering one, so I'll look into it and post the details.

[Tim Lund]

Steve mentioned this organisation. For anyone interested enough to be on this thread, joining must be the best value for money you'll get for £20 a year. Each year they send out a publication - this year's arrived this morning, with pages of illustrations of Londoners enjoying themselves - theatres, street musicians. Last year (when I joined) it was an Edwardian A-Z of London - reproductions of what was the leading street atlas before the A-Z, plus many other London maps from that time. I don't know, but I can imagine the book Steve talks of going for £135 is a previous year's offering, so it could prove a good investment too. Here's their website http://www.topsoc.org/join.htm

[Thomas]

Thanks Tim - their website does look very interesting indeed so I'll see about joining.

[marymck]

Well that's embarrassing. That'll teach me to check if there's a second page to a thread before I reply to a question, as my answer was giving information that had been superceeded by other replies.

I saw the reference to the book some time ago on the excellent website www.parishregister.com I believe they were selling CDs of extracts of the book under licence from the London Metropolitan Archives. I've e-mailed the site as I can no longer find the CD in their online shop, but sadly the person who runs it is recovering from a heart attack at the moment so it might be a while before they get back to me.

I'll post again if and when they do.