A radar screen
...Radcliffe North in 1908 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. In this title: the map covers a semi-rural area north of Radcliffe. The hamlet of Black Lane, on the western side of the map, is the only significant community, but several transport features provide interest as they cross the map. These include a stretch of the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal; a stretch of the Bolton-Bury railway with Black Lane station, & stretches of the Clifton-Accrington & Whitefield-Radcliffe lines. Other features include Withins Mill, Warth Fold with Warth Mills, Healds, Black Lane Mills, tramways, Red Bank Mills, cemetery, Coney Green Colliery. On the reverse is a 1918 commercial directory of Radcliffe, entries A-K. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25