O/T Old maps

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  1. ade

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    Don't know about anyone else, but I love looking at old maps and how things used to be.

    The National Library of Scotland has an online archive which has a feature where you can compare them side by side with bing satellite maps or using a spy hole feature.

    This example is an old RAF airfield (Church Broughton) near me that I cycle past a lot, you can see some of the runway still exists and how other features of the landscape have changed et. Fascinating stuff.

    https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/spy/#zoom=15&lat=52.88384&lon=-1.72105&layers=10&b=1&r=30
     

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