Man with pointy stick

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[grahame]

NOT a "where is this?" quiz because all the pictures in the series give themselves away

A Man with a Stick! (1950s Ordnance Survey Revision Point Photographs)
by Local Studies, Swindon Central Library
A fantastic set of photographic images scanned from a set of extremely rare Ordnance Survey "Revison Point" books in our collection. Mostly from 1953 and 1954, these previously unseen and unpublished photographs have been of great interest to local historians and the subject of a fascinating talk by Andy Binks (Chair, The Swindon Society).

https://www.flickr.com/photos/swindonlocal/albums/72157672893763035/with/15379229363

[CyclingSid]

There must have been thousands of these across the country when the Ordnance Survey did the post war revision. What has survived and where is a moot point. OS^▸ (Ordnance Survey) appears to have been quite "careless" in preservation of their paper records in their moves of headquarters. I asked recently about the location of an aerial photograph, date, flight number & frame number supplied. No sensible reply, look on the internet? It is the only photograph I have without a flight list, most annoying. Somewhere round Reading in the late 1990's. No doubt another case like the "what is roll film".

[Witham Bobby]

And all these pictures going into a proper cartography office and being used to hand draw beautiful OS^▸ (Ordnance Survey) maps.  Today's maps may be very fractionally more accurate, but they do not match the beauty of what the OS achieved, back in the day