Old Map of Liverpool in 1851 by Tallis & Rapkin - Docks, River Mersey, City Centre vintage maps indulging in café terraces

indulging in café terraces

public parks

and the level of detail across the British Isles is remarkable

and ornamental flourish minus distracting glare

or anyone whose family has a connection to one of the stations named here

Old Map of Liverpool in 1851 by Tallis & Rapkin - Docks, River Mersey, City Centre vintage maps indulging in café terracesBy the middle of the nineteenth century, Liverpool had grown into the busiest port outside London, a position confirmed in the same year, 1851, that the publisher John Tallis issued his Illustrated Atlas of the World with engraving by John Rapkin. Produced to ride the wave of public interest generated by that year's Great Exhibition, the atlas gave Liverpool its own decorative city plan, surrounded by engraved vignette views in the style that made