Good photo of the grandstand by putting 1st racecourse moonah into Google. So pleased you brought that topic up Mike. Helen Sent from my iPad > On 16 Jan 2015, at 12:13 am, Mike Hurburgh via <aus-tasmania@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > Thanks for letting us know Peter - do you keep a watch on the TAHO site? > > The comments I made a couple of weeks ago on the previous series released, > also apply to this release - there are quite a few discrepancies, > ommissions and errors in the descriptions. I presume the LINC search > engine searches on the descriptions, so these mistakes are a bit > disappointing. > > Note that the "landholders" referred to are often the original grantees > and not necessarily the owners or occupiers at the time of survey. > > Most of the "maps" are actually survey plans, compiled from one or more > actual surveys (the survey field books and the surveyors names are > noted). Maps, to me, are printed/published documents, showing mostly > topographical details. > > The series shouldn't have been titled "County Maps" as there is another > quite different group of plans called "County Charts" used for a long time > by both the Lands Office and the Land Titles Office as working plans to > index cadastral surveys. > > I too have found the answer to one of my long term queries - the original > New Town race course was on or adjacent to land owned by an ancestor, but > I had found no description of its actual location. A close look at > Buckingham 17 and there it is, plotted in its entirety (east of the Main > Road through present day Moonah, between Albert Road and Derwent Park > Road). Another plan shows the location of the grandstand. > > If anyone would like some help interpreting these plans and finding > information from them I can offer some assistance - I have worked as a > surveyor for many years, with experience in using plans such as these. > > -- > > Regards > > Mike Hurburgh > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. > http://www.avast.com > > ------------------------------- > AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ > Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin@rootsweb.com > Search the Archive (type AUS-Tasmania in the list box) > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-TASMANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message