Leaf 217 – Reflections
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| John Carey's Map of Harrow (1786) |
History has always fascinated
me. Along with my university studies, I spent many years working in museums and
on archaeological digs. Long before that though, when I was very young, we did
a school project on the architectural history of “our village,” where I grew up
(a village which had long before been swallowed up by suburban London). And
ever since that time, I’ve always busied myself with little side projects of
this kind. Forever burying myself in books, maps and old photographs. But
researching my family tree was probably one of the most fascinating of them all.
Poring over old maps,
unfolding layers of
history and home.
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| John Cowley's Improved Map of Middlesex (c.1740s) |
