[Talk-GB] Blue Plaques and others

2012-01-29 Thread Robert Norris
Seeing as it's Charles Dicken's 200th Birthday soon, http://www.charlesdickensbirthplace.co.uk/charles-dickens/charles-dickens-200 I thought I should get around to mapping the Blue and other Coloured Plaques in my area of Portsmouth, especially as there's one at his birthplace. However OSM

Re: [Talk-GB] Blue Plaques and others

2012-01-29 Thread Lester Caine
Robert Norris wrote: Seeing as it's Charles Dicken's 200th Birthday soon, http://www.charlesdickensbirthplace.co.uk/charles-dickens/charles-dickens-200 I thought I should get around to mapping the Blue and other Coloured Plaques in my area of Portsmouth, especially as there's one at his

Re: [Talk-GB] Blue Plaques and others

2012-01-29 Thread Chris Hill
Robert Norris rw_nor...@hotmail.com wrote: Seeing as it's Charles Dicken's 200th Birthday soon, http://www.charlesdickensbirthplace.co.uk/charles-dickens/charles-dickens-200 I thought I should get around to mapping the Blue and other Coloured Plaques in my area of Portsmouth, especially as

Re: [Talk-GB] Blue Plaques and others

2012-01-29 Thread Robert Norris
I have stated to map the 60ish p laques (mostly blue) in Hull and update the openplaques site too. I wrote a blog about it earlier this month http://chris-osm.blogspot.com/2012/01/plaques-blue-or-not.html . It seems there is a plaque to Dickens here too, though I haven't checked it

[Talk-GB] Turner's Island, Hickling Broad, Norfolk

2012-01-29 Thread Andy Mabbett
Does anyone know the location of Turner's Island, Hickling Broad, Norfolk, referred to in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Turner_(photographer)? Another source has it in the south-east of Hickling Broad, next to Rush Hill, still known by local fishermen as Turner Island as late as the 1960s.