Hi, Listers: I have just received on loan (my cousin is emphatic on that point) an aging whiteprint (I suspect an ozalid) of a map entitled, in an ornate title block "An EYE PLAN. of Sunderland and Bishp(sic) Wearmouth from the South by J Rain``. There is a secondary note in the corner ``Copied >From the Original Plan by Victor Bain and Norman Wigrell, Architects, 1909`` (I can`t be certain of the spelling of Wigrell``). The North Sea is labelled ...anicus oceanus, which may, perhaps, refer to the word ``Sands`` below. Little of Monkwearmouth appears beyond some shoreline buildings, and a fancy note, thus ``Monk Wearmouth Shore is held by LEASE for certain Lives under Sir Hedworth Williamson Barnt of Whitburn``. (I suppose that would account for Hedworth Terrace, where the 1881 census found my grandparents.) The map is full of cheerful illustrations of ships and keels in the river, a rope walk, a church yard filed with stones that look like picnic tables, a windmill, a bottle factory, and so on. Assuming that this map is well known to local historians, I`m hoping that someone can tell me the date of the original. And what ``for certain lives`` means. Thanks, as always, Bruce Dodd, Ottawa, Between spasms of Olympics fixation on the TV.