Hi everyone This is something I tend to forget, but John Beeston of California just awoke my mind on this. In past years I have collected about 18 of Godfrey's old ordnance survey maps anywhere between 1860-1914 - mostly London suburbs, but some country. These are marvellous. Some have street numbers on them, so that you can actually pick out the house you are looking for, or you can count down from the corner the number of blocks shaded in. The Oswestry "one" (no street numbers) is divided into two maps, north and south, 1900 and 1901. The scale on this one is approx. 15 inches to the mile. They are relatively inexpensive. The beauty of some of these pamphlet maps, which when unfolded cover 60 x 40 cm, is that they have a directory on the back, such as is the case for Oswestry 1901, which then gives me the addresses of nine of my relatives in business in that town! Ha! Enquire at your local map shop. If we can buy them out here in Australia, you should be able to buy them anywhere. Unfortunately, I don't have a list, but on the back of the Chester one 1898, for example, it shows related maps of Merseyside and West Cheshire, of which there are 26. For London and environs, which reach as far north as Hadley, south to Streatham Hill, west to Ealing & Twickenham, and east to Creekmouth & Bexley, there are in excess of 115 as at publishing date 1993. More added since then, no doubt. Anyone want a lookup for Oswestry 1901 or Chester for 1898. Whoops, nearly forgot, also have Bishop's Castle & Clun for 1901. cheers Graham Melbourne Oz (the place where green-eyed Celtic wizards lurk!)