Alan Godfrey Knihy

Yorkshire Sheet 247.01 Mirfield Battyeford & Roe Head 1905 - published 2008; intro by Alan Godfrey. This detailed map covers the NW area of Mirfield, and although it seems, at first glance, relatively empty, it is packed with interest. Coverage extends from Cooper Bridge station eastward to Water Royd Lane, and from Nab Lane northward to Roe Head Mill. Features include Roe Head, where the Bronte sisters went to school, the College of the Resurrection and House of the Resurrection, Nab, Christ Church Battyeford, Bracken Hill, the Three Nuns Inn (named after the three nuns from nearby Kirklees Priory who caused great scandal), sections of the Calder and Battye Ford Cut, West Riding Flour Mills, Nun Brook Print Works, Kitson Hill, Mirfield Moor, Three Nuns Pit with tramway, Mirfield Moor Colliery, Westroyd, Taylor Hall Brickworks, etc. It is said that Robin Hood was buried close to the Three Nuns Inn. On the reverse we include a Battyeford directory, and a commercial directory for Mirfield.

Warwickshire Sheet 8.13 Aston Manor 1913 - published 2002; intro by Alan Godfrey. This detailed map covers the heart of the large Aston Manor, including parts of Aston, Handsworth and Lozells Wards, as well as the area known as Birchfield. Coverage stretches from Stamford Road eastward to Beales Street and Electric Avenue, and from Deykin Avenue southward to Clifton Road. It is a busy map and features include Aston Hall, Aston Park, Villa Park, LNWR line with Witton station, St Peter & St Paul's church, Bathurst Works, Howard Chandelier Works, tramways and depot, St Paul's church Lozells, Holy Trinity church Birchfield, many streets of mostly terraced housing, St James church, Lozells Picture House, Holte Almshouses, Pavilion Electric Theatre, Grammar School, police station, etc etc. On the reverse we include a selection of street directory entries, incl Birchfield Road, Frederick Road, Queen's Road, Witton Lane, Witton Road.

Here are the details of maps for Atherton (NE): Lancashire Sheet 94.12 Atherton (NE) 1907 - published 2009; intro by Alan Godfrey. ISBN.978-1-84784-284-8 This highly detailed map covers the NE part of Atherton, and southern part of Westhoughton around the Pretoria Pit. Features include a stretch of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway with Atherton Central station, Peelwood Colliery with rail branch; Pretoria Pit (here called Hulton Colliery Nrs 3 and 4 Pits), scene of the terrible disaster in 1910; tramways, New Brook House, Laburnum Mill, Atherton Town Hall, Victoria Mills etc. On the reverse we include a railway timetable for the Wigan-Manchester line in 1914.

Detailed map of Whitechapel; London sheet 63.\nIntroduction by Alan Godfrey.\nCovers much of The City and extending across Whitechapel, Bishopsgate and Spitalfields. The area covered runs from Moorgate eastward to Bedford Street, and fromWorship Street and Quaker Streetr southward to The Tower. The many features include The Bank of England, the northern part of The Tower; Broad Street, Liverpool Street, Moorgate, Fenchurch Street, Cannon Street, Bishopsgate stations; Royal Mint, Custom House, London Hospital, Aldgate; streets include Cornhill, Threadneedle Street, Finsbury Pavement, Whitechapel Street, Whitechapel Road, Commercial Road, Leman Street and countless more; many City churches and their parishes are shown, and also St George in the East, Christ Church Spitalfields.