Framed Old Map of Goole and surrounding villages c.1900

This is a restoration of a Victorian Ordnance Survey Map circa 1900 of villages in the East Riding of Yorkshire, UK, specifically the 6 inch to 1 mile Old Map (1888-1913) or Goole, Old Goole, Airmyn, Hook and Skelton. Map Centre Decimal Latitude/Longitude (WGS84): 53.689217, -0.880902

There are some interesting details contained within the map for people familiar with the local area. Some highlights are The Blacksmiths Arms in Hook being the site of an original smithy, Dempster Avenue taking it's name from a drain that ran where the street now sits, The Charter Club being at the end of Charter Lane (now Centenary Road), areas like Hook Pasture, New Close, Hook Carr, Mount Pleasant and Cobbler Hill Wood being topographical areas that lent their names to future streets. Airmyn seemed to be a collection of farms with a pub in the middle and Shuffleton is noted as an area of Goole - the only remnant of it today being Shuffleton Mill.

The map was meticulously 'hand-stitched' from 64 individual images aligning each one perfectly in order to create a single, seamless image. The original images are scans of physical documents which meant all the creases, folds, water damage and stains has to removed and the missing information (gaps in the document) sympathetically recreated from existing details. Partial words and orphaned letters were removed around the perimeter of the map for aesthetic reasons.

An extremely high fidelity scan of rough textured paper has been applied as a backdrop to the map details to give the impression of a slightly aged, single physical document, however, the pin sharp detail reflects a quality that didn't exist in the original documents with every street name clearly readable.