Beeston Vertical Heritage Map

Another work in progress (maps always are). I have a few other things I want to add.

If you compare this vertical map to my other two Beeston vertical maps you will see how I have shifted vertical and horizontal street lines to accommodate the information I include. I could reduce the height of this map because of the space I have created by excluding most pubs and cafés, but for now I am leaving it as it is. I like the white space.

As with all my maps I try to pull in the Trent and University. Perhaps it has suited some to ignore them (an observation I will return to when I write about a book, The River Trent by J H Ingram, published in 1955, which I bought in Oxfam for £3 last week).

Just click on the map to enlarge.

A few photographs of Beeston's everyday heritage, which few notice. 

Beeston Nights — a work in progress

My new style Beeston 'vertical map' has the advantage of being easily adaptable, of which the Beeston Nights map below is an example. I am also working on a Beeston Heritage version based on the town's numerous blue plaques. Having been given time I did not expect to have this side of 2017, I am going to complete these two versions and that will be it. Beeston Nights will show what shops are open, the supermarkets taken as given, so I will show launderettes etc. I will also try and take some night-time photographs of the town (I have included the few I have to give a feel of Beeston after dark).

Some eateries are not open every night, so I need to check out opening hours when I do my evening walk. In the meantime, gaze upon a very different Beeston to the one many of us know much better.

Usual rule. Click on map to enlarge.

Beeston Loyalty Map draft no.2 looking for a sponsor

I did a post a few days ago of my first draft of this map. This is my second draft. Slowly it progresses! My aim is to find a sponsor so the map can be published in January, before I go off the scene for a few months whilst I recover from open heart surgery.

Usual rule applies. Click on image to enlarge.

The following bus and tram information will appear on the reverse side of the map.

Beeston goes vertical — a new kind of map

This map is a first of its kind. The idea comes from a Beeston Bus Connections Map I created at the end of 2013. If you follow the link you will see that is also a vertical map, but was a less than satisfactory solution to the challenge I had set myself at the time — the creation of a pocket bus map centred on Beeston.

I thought the idea might be better applied to a map promoting Beeston's pubs and cafés, since a landscape map results in text being set at 90 degrees. A vertical map overcomes this problem, but at the end of the day it is all about scale and proportions, so that the map can be folded and opened in a way which does not distract from what the map is trying to share. I believe that with my draft version 2, I have met the challenge. 

At some point, I hope to see the map published. In the meantime this is your opportunity to make comments and suggestions about how it might be improved. So here it is, Beeston as you have never seen it before!

To see a larger version, click on the map: