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Most of my research has been online via Hansard or local authority archive websites - it's surprising what nuggets will turn up. I have so far paid a few visits to the National Archives at Kew to get my hands on some more "offline" things.
Occasional ''El Presidente'' of SABRE and infrequent visitor to TNA. Likes files with lots and lots of photos of roads. Hates boring lists of pointless minutae.


==Pet Project==
==Pet Project==
Document the history of every single classified road in Great Britain from 1922 to date.  
Document the history of every single classified road in Great Britain from 1922 to date. Currently poking my way through six inch maps at TNA and old MOT or George Philips maps to find that obscure 4 digit B road that might well be described as "Link In Crinkley Bottom" that existed between 1926 and 1929 before upgraded to a slightly less obscure A road that disappeared in 1935.
 
Next task is to identify when changes took place between 1922 and 1932, and to test the theory that during this time period, with only a handful of exceptions, no A roads were downgraded and all upgraded or new ones took the next number in the list. eg: A1079 in July 1924 ( from A1064), A4123 in November 1927 (from A4087), A3090 in or slightly before 1940 (from A3048).  


==What I already have==
==What I already have==
I have partial camera copies of
I have lots of things, most of which are not properly documented, and need to be filed an organised. In short, I need a secretary. Fortunately, SABRE already has one ;-)
<ul>
<li>[[MT 39/147]]</li>
<li>[[MT 39/241]] (including its sister publication, [[MFQ 1/708]]</li>
<li>[[MT 39/245]]</li>
<li>[[MT 39/246]]</li>
<li>[[MT 39/774]]</li>
</ul>


==What I want==
==What I want==
[[Ritchie's shopping list]]
[[Ritchie's shopping list]]

Latest revision as of 09:18, 20 July 2011

Occasional El Presidente of SABRE and infrequent visitor to TNA. Likes files with lots and lots of photos of roads. Hates boring lists of pointless minutae.

Pet Project

Document the history of every single classified road in Great Britain from 1922 to date. Currently poking my way through six inch maps at TNA and old MOT or George Philips maps to find that obscure 4 digit B road that might well be described as "Link In Crinkley Bottom" that existed between 1926 and 1929 before upgraded to a slightly less obscure A road that disappeared in 1935.

What I already have

I have lots of things, most of which are not properly documented, and need to be filed an organised. In short, I need a secretary. Fortunately, SABRE already has one ;-)

What I want

Ritchie's shopping list