Wednesday, 22 February 2012

Maps of the Area

Links to various maps:
http://www.bham.de/
follow the LHS links for the maps

http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html
http://maps.google.co.uk/

http://www.birmingham-jewelry-quarter.net/en_map.php




The Jewelry quarter  in 1828
This map shows the limit of the growth of Birmingham at this time, the jewelry quarter barely encroached on the countryside.



Key Hill Cemetery in 1903   O.S. map
This shows the site of the original chapel and the sand pit quarry. There is already a railway running through the area.




Key Hill Cemetery Plot layout



A-Z Road map
This is a map from the 1960's and shows Key Hill cemetery subsumed into the urban sprawl which is Birmingham



OS Map from 1962 Key Hill called Hockley cemetery