Pratts High Test Plan of Ireland, Eire, 1933 - Dublin, Belfast, Ulster - Old Vintage Motoring Car Map - Esso, Standard Oil surrey I use super-clear museum-grade acrylic

I use super-clear museum-grade acrylic (perspex/acrylite) in my frames - it's less reflective than glass and better for transport

work leaving or housewarming gift for someone from Scotland and has a keen interest in geology

Westminster and Southwark

Highgate and Richmond

It was compiled at an intriguing point of history as Europe looked upon the Ottomans as an economic and territorial threat

Pratts High Test Plan of Ireland, Eire, 1933 - Dublin, Belfast, Ulster - Old Vintage Motoring Car Map - Esso, Standard Oil surrey I use super-clear museum-grade acrylicThis rather fascinating pictorial map of Ireland was created by A. E. Taylor and published in 1933 by Pratts Oil which was known as Standard Oil in the US and only a few months later as Esso in the UK. Taylor was commissioned to create a series of maps of the United Kingdom and Ireland to encourage people to drive around the country in their new fangled motor carriages (aka cars) which, of course, would consume Esso oil! Almost all of the towns and