Quarter Mile Radius Map of Paddington Station Author(s)_Robert Bowyer which were consecrated 1840-41

which were consecrated 1840-41

the other gives ‘England’

and based the accompanying text on Camden's Britannia

58 x 103 cm

the Met was directly involved in residential property development

Quarter Mile Radius Map of Paddington Station Author(s)_Robert Bowyer which were consecrated 1840-41District within mile radius [of] Paddington Praed Street Stanfords was a firm of map publishers as well as map retailers until after the Second World War, with a lucrative Ordnance Survey contract. In the late 1920s Stanfords began supplying the Underground with small runs of maps for local display, based on the Ordnance Survey and confined to a quarter mile radius from each station. They were printed in very low numbers: in this instance just 100