See It On A Postcard's Thursday Postcard Hunt is in search of pictorial maps
A postcard map for a literary pilgrimage to Bronte Country
and to find your way a larger map may be needed although the
Pennine Way, on the spine of England, bypasses the sisters home,
Haworth Parsonage so no tea shop stop there if walking the route.
Alternatively relax into a scenic railway journey through Yorkshire. The 19th Century Ribblehead Viaduct at the bottom is the most impressive of them all on the Settle to Carlisle Line and beloved by photographers, especially if there is a steam train crossing.
Perhaps as it is winter take a city break in Antwerp, the railway station will impress and a cornucopia of postcards are for sale at the Plantin-Moretus printing museum.
7 comments:
These are great, I love the 'nerdy' and oddly specific rail bridge map
Interesting viaduct one! I like the one of Antwerp best, the colors and more simplicity to it, and street names you can actually read!
A great collection you have here. I love th Bronte Country card. And I really like the look of the Antwerp one....
Oh, very interesting maps! The Brönte Country is the kind of trips I would like. But, actually, where I have been to in in Antwerpen. The Plantin-Moretus is one of the best museums in the world!
I find the town names so interesting! Like Finnbadger, I also like the "oddly specific" viaducts card (and looking it up, it's also odd that the lengths are measured in yards, while the height is in feet)
True, the museum has stayed long in my memory.
I think it was traditional that distance being long was measured in yards and so in contrast height is in feet. That is before we went metric but still kept miles (1760 yards). We run a mix and match metric/imperial system nowadays! Human height is usually referred to in feet and inches unless you are in the medical profession then it is metric. Confused, we all are.
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