Digital Images Archive
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No.32 Hants 83.16.3
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The base map is the sales version of Hants 83.16.3.
This sheet - in its 1873 form - was produced by zincography, and we have here the hand-coloured form of it. Potentially, this introduces confusion between the red used for hand-colouring and the red ink used for drawing additions; but from (5) we may presume that the only addition is the New South Parade Pier and the raising of the adjoining footway by the sea wall. The pier has been drawn on an accurately cut paste-over to cover up the shingle ornament on the beach and the blue colour-wash at the edge of the water.
At this scale, understanding the rules for colouring takes some thought. Thus, on Eastern Villas Road, Netley Villa and Roslyn Villa have verandahs wrapped round a corner. They are presumably supported on wooden posts and insofar as there are side walls they are presumably of wood, so the verandah is coloured grey. A little to the east, Eastern Cottages also have verandahs, but these are recessed into the front of the house. They probably look much the same as their grander cousins to the west, but they are deemed to have three walls of brick so are coloured carmine.
The printed version of this sheet is at https://maps.nls.uk/view/231279537. Recall that, away from the pier, nothing has changed, so what we have is an 1887 zincographing from the same master drawing that was used for the base map for (32). (That this is an uncoloured version is of no particular significance.) What is worth noting is the deliberate simplification. The internal divisions within the Coastguard Station have been omitted, as have the posts - presumably for washing lines - at the rear of the houses. Immediately to the east, Northbrook Terrace is still named, but not the individual houses. A little to the north, the houses in St Helen's Park Crescent all have individual Tanks - presumably collecting rainwater from their roofs for the garden. On the 1887 zincograph they have become nondescript squares. Finally, to the north of St Helen's Park Crescent is a laundry with a wall fronting Granada Road. On the 1887 zincograph, the eastern corner of the wall is strengthened with a corner pillar; there is no sign of this on (32). Something like this must have been on the master drawing all along, but the tracer in 1874 failed to spot it. The moral here is that when using nineteenth-century zincographed maps it is worth consulting multiple zincographings (when they exist) to extract the greatest possible information.