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Old Map of London Stanford's Southend - Sydenham - Deptford - Beckenham circa 1905

THIS IS A REBUBLISHED MAP LAID ONTO CLOTH

Ref: StanfordsO, 1905, Edward Stanford

Old map of London first published circa 1905 by Edward Stanford. On a scale of four inches to one mile. The boundaries of counties, boroughs, and urban districts are shown as follows:
The parks and open spaces under the control of the London County Council are coloured red blue-green
Other parks and open spaces are coloured yellow-green
The main roads, omnibus, and tramway routes are coloured brown
Levels are given in feet above the sea, "Ordnance Datum", which is 12 feet six inches below "Trinity High Water"

When this map was published:

The North Atlantic shipping route was hugely competitive. Britain's economic prosperity rested on it's seaborne trade, and British shipping companies competed to carry passengers for emigration from the UK to North America & Canada. The White Star Line was the trading name for the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company established in 1869. The race to build the best and biggest oceanic liners began at the end of the 19th century and in April 1901 the White Star Line launched the largest steamship ship in the world at the time the SS Celtic, built by Harland & Wolff at their shipyard in Belfast. It was the first of what were to become known as 'The Big Four' with Cedric in 1903, Baltic in 1904, and Adriatic in 1907. Together they carried around 1.5 million passengers on the Liverpool to New York & Southampton to New York route. These oceanic liners were built for their size and luxury, and were not a match for Cunard's new liners in terms of speed. Cunard ships were built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. When the White Star Line ship Titanic was sinking the SS Celtic picked up a distress call at 12th April 1912 whilst sailing from Liverpool to New York but it was too slow to reach the ship. It was Cunard Line RMS Carpathia that was first to respond and reached the Titanic after 3 1/2 hours. The top speed of RMS Carpathia was 14.5 knots but on hearing the distress call Captain Rostron ordered extra stokers to create additional steam that accelerated the ship to more than 17 knots.The SS Celtic continued on it's journey. During World War 1 Celtic was used as a troop ship. In 1917 it struck a German mine off the Isle of Man where 87 people died. In 1918 it was torpedoed by a U-Boat in the Irish Sea where 389 people died. It survived the war and continued to sail until early on 10th December 1928 she ran aground on Cow & Calf Rocks, adjacent to Roches Point, and could not be recovered.

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