Metropolitan Railway & Connections Passenger Map, British Empire Exhibition Issue War of the Spanish Succession County Atlases

County Atlases

each sheet carries pasted labels of Charles Picquet

the sheets are also identified by a vellum tab with the title ‘Carte de la France’ and a number from 1 to 6

One can read a great deal into a map such as this

It was sold to the Turks in 1792

Metropolitan Railway & Connections Passenger Map, British Empire Exhibition Issue War of the Spanish Succession County AtlasesIn 1933 the Met became part of the LPTB. Here though, the Tube and other railways fade into the background. The emphasis is on work life balance, commuting from Metro land (a term coined by the railway companys Publicity Department) with its golf courses, rapidly diminishing countryside and beauty spots such as Pinner and Ruislip, a fragment of that older and more beautiful world. A panel on the verso extols the virtues of living in Metro land, by