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No.24 Hants 83.8.16
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This is a WD-only version of Hants 83.8.16 printed September 1879.
Much effort has gone into depicting the new Victoria Park, opened 1878 - see printed sales edition at https://maps.nls.uk/view/231279450. As elsewhere, there is a difference of opinion over names: the Urinals, discreetly hidden in the copses, are yet more discreet on the printed map, being unnamed; whereas the Drinking Fountain on the printed map is a mere D.F. on the MS. The Summer House is named on both but is regarded as a roofed building on the printed map only; the Band Stand is roofless on both, The very grand residence for the Commanding Royal Engineer was allowed to appear on the sales edition. Covetous eyes were cast upon it and by 1896 the site had been taken over by vulgar commercial development. South of this, next to the Dockyard Railway, a large rectangle has been marked in pencil and detail has been extended into the margin, but what this represents is a mystery. Finally, at the junction of Flathouse Road and Edinburgh Road a building is named in pencil Clerk of Works' Quarters. This does not appear on the printed map; it was presumably added after 1879.