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National Library of Scotland Website

Plenty of old maps and photos and videos to look at.

http://www.nls.uk
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http://www.city-data.com/

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A US site that also has London and a UK sections.

They cover everything from real estate prices to genealogy and a hell of a lot more.

The best bit of it it when you acces crime maps. They are fascinating and not only for how much they tell you about the crimes marked. Depending on whatever state or city you are on, you can see where sex offenders, complete with address and photos are.
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Thanks Bas, shall have a good look at that. On the National Library of Scotland site you can have a old map/new map side by side. Click Map Images and then side by side view. Great to see maps where they were just fields which are now built over or where an old Railway line used to be.

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Some great sites there, lads.

I love looking at demographics, stats, census numbers - for some odd probably slightly autistic reason.

Check out skyscrapercity.com. Many pics on the forum are just routine normal streets, but in far fung places like Dagestan or Panama City. The pics of markets, roads, transport stations, daily life - are the most exciting.
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I'd like to be able to use the Internet this way but the entire thing may as well just be xhamster at this point
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On the National Library of Scotland site the best maps for comparing side by side are:

OS One inch, 1885-1900-outline
OS One inch 7th series, 1955-61

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ccreds wrote:On the National Library of Scotland site the best maps for comparing side by side are:

OS One inch, 1885-1900-outline
OS One inch 7th series, 1955-61
Also look at the arrow on the left hand side, it is tracked on the right side so you know where you are and vice versa.

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A couple of sites for the political animals among us.

British Governments and Elections since 1945. Quite detailed.

http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/uktable.htm

All the party manifestos since 1945

http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/man.htm
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ccreds wrote:
ccreds wrote:On the National Library of Scotland site the best maps for comparing side by side are:

OS One inch, 1885-1900-outline
OS One inch 7th series, 1955-61
Also look at the arrow on the left hand side, it is tracked on the right side so you know where you are and vice versa.
Just spotted 2 former racecourses Lincoln and Lewes. You can see the general outline of the course from above. Have a look on National Library of Scotland or google maps/earth.
Lincoln Racecourse right next to the a57 as you going into Lincoln.
Lewes Racecourse right next to the a27 and just to the west of Lewes.

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Pretty quiet round these parts, so much so that ccreds is talking to himself. :|
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Chris wrote:Pretty quiet round these parts, so much so that ccreds is talking to himself. :|
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There's one thing noticeable with the ' OS One inch 7th series 1955-61' and now is the motorways, Chris. I was looking where the bloody M1 was. :D

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One for Carlos. Didn't you know that the Lady Bay Bridge was a railway bridge originally? The other side from Trent Bridge.

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ccreds wrote:One for Carlos. Didn't you know that the Lady Bay Bridge was a railway bridge originally? The other side from Trent Bridge.
There was another bridge, which knocked down in about 1984 that use to go across the Trent. Maybe beingsoblase might remember it?
All in your town or city see if you can spot some changes.

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So in the video overleaf the North Circular Road is more better than South Circular Road. There was going to be 4 circular roads around London.

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My favourite circular road has always been the outer circle in Brummagem. One of my Sunday treats was a trip round there with my dear old dad on the buzz.
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Here's a wiki link crammed with fucking loads of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... l_articles

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m4rkb wrote:Here's a wiki link crammed with fucking loads of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... l_articles

I think I got I from StumbleUpon which is superb
Is that all you've got some manly Wikipedia page?

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Trent Bridge. (From nottstalgia)

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Reddit can be extremely interesting, and very weird if you are not careful.
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Basualdo wrote:Reddit can be extremely interesting, and very weird if you are not careful.
Nah Reddit is very tame nowadays.

They had a big purge a year or so back.
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Another video similar to the one overleaf I posted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjuD288JlCs

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