Friday, December 22, 2006

You are here...

In the summer, I grumbled about how our new Town Centre maps were something of a disappointment. You can judge for yourself from this photo.
Rummaging through my disk drive to find it, I came across a photo of another town map, this time from a small fishing village in North Wales. Much more interesting, although it does have the benefit of a harbour and coastal history.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

A long time ago... There used to be a nice map that had lights on it. It was either in Scatcherd Park or near the Town Hall.

Shades said...

Was it the sort that had a little pea lamp for "You are Here" and rows of buttons for showing up local features on the map?

I have a vague memory of these being quite common in the 60s in lots of places I visited in my childhood.

I think Scarborough and Whitley Bay had them. Possibly Newcastle Exhibition Park

Unknown said...

It was exactly that sort of map.
I remember being fascinated by it as a small child. The lamps eventually faded and then stopped working.

It was somewhere near the town hall I think

Shades said...

Interestingly enough, Cllr Robert Finnigan mentioned these things at the Morley summit last week. It used to entertain him as a child, it seems.

I suspect my Nintendo DS loving nine year old would still be fascinated by such a map if he came across one.