RedLionLad Posted May 1, 2023 Report Share Posted May 1, 2023 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppyDAZE Posted May 1, 2023 Report Share Posted May 1, 2023 (edited) Clifton suspension bridge is named, but it ain't there! Weird map, and where is Bristol's legendary fruit market? Edited May 1, 2023 by AppyDAZE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickytimes Posted May 1, 2023 Report Share Posted May 1, 2023 I must be missing something here. This map must be after 1970 because of the SS Great Britain reference. Or am I being whooshed? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slacker Posted May 1, 2023 Report Share Posted May 1, 2023 Good Lord that must be old.I can see a player in a red shirt stood over the penalty spot! I know.A month too late. 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedLionLad Posted May 1, 2023 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2023 48 minutes ago, trickytimes said: I must be missing something here. This map must be after 1970 because of the SS Great Britain reference. Or am I being whooshed? This was before it set sail 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 1, 2023 Report Share Posted May 1, 2023 Novers Park is where IKB used to go for a stroll and to clear his head over the bridge being lower on one side than the other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thornbury Red Posted May 1, 2023 Report Share Posted May 1, 2023 Looks like an etsy map in the style of lord of the rings to me 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted May 1, 2023 Report Share Posted May 1, 2023 Must be from the future. It`s got Steve`s houses at Ashton Vale on there............................................. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Open End Numb Legs Posted May 1, 2023 Report Share Posted May 1, 2023 Looks like there should be some buried treasure on it somewhere. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gornagain Posted May 1, 2023 Report Share Posted May 1, 2023 This one's from 1905 https://maps.nls.uk/view/101460286 It shows both grounds 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spudski Posted May 1, 2023 Report Share Posted May 1, 2023 Sad thing is, this sort of thing is going to become more common. AI chat has been a real eye opener as to what's possible and believable. We're pretty much stuffed with' reality' online. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted May 1, 2023 Report Share Posted May 1, 2023 4 hours ago, gornagain said: This one's from 1905 https://maps.nls.uk/view/101460286 It shows both grounds "They'll never build houses down on the Ducky Moor, they'll flood" said my great-grandma some time around the early 1920s. Nonetheless, they did and in 1968 she was proved right! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingswood Robin Posted May 1, 2023 Report Share Posted May 1, 2023 4 hours ago, gornagain said: This one's from 1905 https://maps.nls.uk/view/101460286 It shows both grounds St Johns Lane looks a bit more substantial on that map. It could just be a quirk of the map, but Ashton Gate looks like it's in a slightly different location to what we have today, though the stand indicated on the map looks like the same a shape as the one that pre-dated the Dolman. If it was also a cricket ground it was presumably 3 sided ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo88 Posted May 2, 2023 Report Share Posted May 2, 2023 This is a very poor attempt at making an old map. It seems to show one of the bonded tobacco warehouses or a tobacco factory in North Street which were built 1900 ish and at the same time the SS Great Britain which left in the mid 1800s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted May 2, 2023 Report Share Posted May 2, 2023 3 hours ago, pongo88 said: This is a very poor attempt at making an old map. It seems to show one of the bonded tobacco warehouses or a tobacco factory in North Street which were built 1900 ish and at the same time the SS Great Britain which left in the mid 1800s. I think it's a deliberate joke, Pogo. A number of the suburbs named on the map didn't exist when maps looked like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erithacus Posted May 2, 2023 Report Share Posted May 2, 2023 It's obviously a fake as the Bristol Underground isn't marked. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erithacus Posted May 2, 2023 Report Share Posted May 2, 2023 14 hours ago, Kingswood Robin said: a slightly different location to what we have today The cricket pavilion is about where the road in front of Southbow House is now. (Get's in another plug for Know Your Place website: https://maps.bristol.gov.uk/kyp/?edition=&ma ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse With No Name Posted May 9, 2023 Report Share Posted May 9, 2023 This has just come up on my Facebook feed. Someone is doing a project making a Lord of the Rings style map of Bristol, and as it is unfinished is asking for any unusual landmarks that can go on it. So it is totally new. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midred Posted May 9, 2023 Report Share Posted May 9, 2023 Didn't realise that Shakespeare also "played" there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedLionLad Posted May 9, 2023 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2023 1 hour ago, CrackingCheeseGromit said: This has just come up on my Facebook feed. Someone is doing a project making a Lord of the Rings style map of Bristol, and as it is unfinished is asking for any unusual landmarks that can go on it. So it is totally new. It was posted here for a laugh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse With No Name Posted May 9, 2023 Report Share Posted May 9, 2023 5 minutes ago, RedLionLad said: It was posted here for a laugh I know, but some of the comments were taking it seriously Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midred Posted May 9, 2023 Report Share Posted May 9, 2023 3 hours ago, Midred said: Didn't realise that Shakespeare also "played" there! Did wonder why Ashton Gate reminded me of the Globe theatre! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unan Posted May 9, 2023 Report Share Posted May 9, 2023 To clarify, it is a modern map ‘Lord of the Rings style’ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downendcity Posted May 10, 2023 Report Share Posted May 10, 2023 (edited) 15 hours ago, Marcus Aurelius said: To clarify, it is a modern map ‘Lord of the Rings style’ Are you sure? I'm sure I can just make out( very faintly because it's worn away over the centuries) "ye olde village green" at Ashton Vale with a dog walking path thereto. Edited May 10, 2023 by downendcity 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handsofclay Posted May 10, 2023 Report Share Posted May 10, 2023 It is definitely the oldest map of Ashton Gate. It was knocked up by Nostradamus in a geography lesson in 1516. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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