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Exploring the history of the Huddersfield area. Tweets by @daveyp
Jan 7, 2022 • 27 tweets • 11 min read
This just came up in a discussion on a FB group, so thought I might be worth sharing. On old O.S. maps there are several symbols that can be useful to know. First up, the elongated "S" (circled in red) which is a "brace" or "field tie"... The O.S. surveyors carefully recorded each parcel of land and gave them a unique field ID number and an acreage. Here's field number 42 in the Township of Austonley which was 1.947 acres.
Apr 23, 2018 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
All 604 pages of the 1900 Huddersfield & District Postal Directory scanned and deskewed :-) I'm guesstimating a further 50 hours work (~5 mins per page) to get to the final PDF version. Time to stick the kettle on... Just in case anyone's interested in the workflow...

Step 1) Scan the pages! I use a specialist book scanner (Plustek OpticBook 4600) which lets me lay the page completely flat and scans right up to the edge. Scans are done at 600 DPI. It took about 10 hours to scan the book.