| Where do QPR play...? For map geeks! 12:07 - Aug 19 with 2868 views | slmrstid |
Obviously not as dumb a question as it appears...a friend of mine has found a function on the OS website where you can have a split screen of historic maps against current ones and see how they've changed over time. The one she sent has a 1888-1913 map on one side, and modern day satellite imagery on the other.
I find stuff like this absolutely fascinating, and have already looked loads around Leicester, especially as the estate where I currently live was once the mainline for the Great Central Railway approx. half a mile south of Leicester Central station - all now long gone of course!
Anyway, I've scrolled down to our little lovely corner of West London, and whilst there is a football pitch shaped rectangle where Loftus Road is, there's no label for "Football Ground". Nor does South Africa Road, or anything between South Africa Road and Wormwood Scrubs other than farmland appear to exist! The Hammersmith & City Line is on the map, but the Central Line doesn't appear to be.
I know we have the history of a large number of grounds in our history, so on the map on the left where were we playing at this time? Can you find QPR FC? I genuinely have no idea where we were then so I'd love to find out!
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/?fbclid=IwAR3094qEUz95DedL3Eijkz_AV [Post edited 19 Aug 2020 12:08]
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| Where do QPR play...? For map geeks! on 12:11 - Aug 19 with 2841 views | SonofNorfolt |
We played in Park Royal until our ground was requisitioned during WW1 and we moved to Shepherd's Bush.
So as your maps are only up to 1913 there's your answer. |  | | |
| Where do QPR play...? For map geeks! on 12:12 - Aug 19 with 2832 views | Mick_S |
Brilliant!
Not you, Mel. [Post edited 19 Aug 2020 12:12]
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| Where do QPR play...? For map geeks! on 12:17 - Aug 19 with 2810 views | Northernr |
Favourite bit of map geekery seen lately...
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| Where do QPR play...? For map geeks! on 12:21 - Aug 19 with 2786 views | BrianMcCarthy |
Love old maps. |  |
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| Where do QPR play...? For map geeks! on 12:32 - Aug 19 with 2737 views | DavieQPR |
We also played in Kensal Rise prior to 1904-5 when we moved to the Agricultural Society's land. The landlord at Kensal Rise wanted to double our rent. |  | | |
| Where do QPR play...? For map geeks! on 12:33 - Aug 19 with 2730 views | SonofNorfolt |
As Arthur Daley accurately states in an episode of 'Minder'
'South London?'
Other bits of info that one may not be aware of are that the White City flats were the Olympic Village for the 1948 Games.
The Central Line was extended out to West Ruislip just after WW2. They planned to carry on to Denham but ran out of money. | | | |
| Where do QPR play...? For map geeks! on 12:45 - Aug 19 with 2679 views | francisbowles |
| Where do QPR play...? For map geeks! on 12:17 - Aug 19 by Northernr |
Favourite bit of map geekery seen lately...
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Christ, how long would it take to get from Bexleyheath to Woking on the District Line? |  | | |
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| Where do QPR play...? For map geeks! on 13:05 - Aug 19 with 2597 views | NorthantsHoop |
| Where do QPR play...? For map geeks! on 12:12 - Aug 19 by Mick_S |
Brilliant!
Not you, Mel. [Post edited 19 Aug 2020 12:12]
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I think he nearly got an A level in History, but they are still checking 38 years later, if he actually took the exam. [Post edited 19 Aug 2020 13:08]
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| Where do QPR play...? For map geeks! on 14:29 - Aug 19 with 2431 views | Rs_Holy |
love all the old maps too... really interesting.
Amazing that London didn't seem to have any proper grounds back then?.. It appeared to be really well established up North tho…?. |  | | |
| Where do QPR play...? For map geeks! on 15:23 - Aug 19 with 2339 views | Boston |
| Where do QPR play...? For map geeks! on 12:33 - Aug 19 by SonofNorfolt |
As Arthur Daley accurately states in an episode of 'Minder'
'South London?'
Other bits of info that one may not be aware of are that the White City flats were the Olympic Village for the 1948 Games.
The Central Line was extended out to West Ruislip just after WW2. They planned to carry on to Denham but ran out of money. |
White City ‘flats’, y’mean the WCE? It existed prior to 1948, occupied by regular working class people, a V2 went into one of the buildings in ‘44.
The rectangle with the entrance from Loftus Rd, as many know, home of Shepherds Bush FC back then. | |
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| Where do QPR play...? For map geeks! on 15:31 - Aug 19 with 2305 views | W7Ranger |
| Where do QPR play...? For map geeks! on 12:33 - Aug 19 by SonofNorfolt |
As Arthur Daley accurately states in an episode of 'Minder'
'South London?'
Other bits of info that one may not be aware of are that the White City flats were the Olympic Village for the 1948 Games.
The Central Line was extended out to West Ruislip just after WW2. They planned to carry on to Denham but ran out of money. |
That's interesting to know Mel, as I always thought that when the 1908 games were held at White City, was when the Olympic Village was located where the White City flats are now. |  | | |
| Where do QPR play...? For map geeks! on 15:38 - Aug 19 with 2287 views | Mick_S |
| Where do QPR play...? For map geeks! on 12:33 - Aug 19 by SonofNorfolt |
As Arthur Daley accurately states in an episode of 'Minder'
'South London?'
Other bits of info that one may not be aware of are that the White City flats were the Olympic Village for the 1948 Games.
The Central Line was extended out to West Ruislip just after WW2. They planned to carry on to Denham but ran out of money. |
Well I never! Just had a little read up and the plan included a stop in Uxbridge which would have been just the ticket. | |
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| Where do QPR play...? For map geeks! on 18:20 - Aug 19 with 2120 views | londonscottish |
I used to live on College Rd in Kensal Rise and my old back garden was where that ground used to be.
Just double checked it on that map site and there it is.
Posting pics to this site is a PITA, though, so I've given up. |  |
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| Where do QPR play...? For map geeks! on 18:26 - Aug 19 with 2114 views | SonofNorfolt |
| Where do QPR play...? For map geeks! on 15:23 - Aug 19 by Boston |
White City ‘flats’, y’mean the WCE? It existed prior to 1948, occupied by regular working class people, a V2 went into one of the buildings in ‘44.
The rectangle with the entrance from Loftus Rd, as many know, home of Shepherds Bush FC back then. |
The V2 landed on the Flower Estate Ian, my dad was thrown across the room by it. | | | |
| Where do QPR play...? For map geeks! on 22:42 - Aug 19 with 1908 views | LythamR |
| Where do QPR play...? For map geeks! on 12:33 - Aug 19 by SonofNorfolt |
As Arthur Daley accurately states in an episode of 'Minder'
'South London?'
Other bits of info that one may not be aware of are that the White City flats were the Olympic Village for the 1948 Games.
The Central Line was extended out to West Ruislip just after WW2. They planned to carry on to Denham but ran out of money. |
My family moved into Abercrombie House on WCE in 1938 and were the first residents in their flat as it had just been completed ay the time my Grandmother told me that much of the estate was yet to be finished at the time. |  | | |
| Where do QPR play...? For map geeks! on 01:34 - Aug 20 with 1838 views | Boston |
| Where do QPR play...? For map geeks! on 18:26 - Aug 19 by SonofNorfolt |
The V2 landed on the Flower Estate Ian, my dad was thrown across the room by it. |
So that feeling of being a bit German is actually shrapnel! | |
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