I get a lot of pleasure from 'reading' OS maps - they are such works of art. And it amazes me how much intricate detail is captured on the paper maps - or now on the digital forms on phones and laptops.
I sometimes wonder why they used such extraordinarily beautiful [light] music to accompany these films - and most documentary type footage back then. I suppose they could have used any [then current] pop or jazz. Maybe cost came into it; library music and so on. More modern [post 60's] films and docs seem to use what I would say is 'one dimensional' music and background sounds - dominated by folk or pop styles. Whatever the reason they used what they did, I'm very grateful for it. I find this sort of music moving, atmospheric and it instantly puts me into a wistful [or deeper] mood. I become nostalgic - not only for the period depicted, but also for the plaintive approach taken in such filmed records. What it may have actually been like to be there at time is for me somewhat irrelevant - when faced with this level of recorded art.
From around aged 10 when my friends were reading comics, childrens adventure books and the classics, I was reading world atlases, large and small scale maps and, best of all, ordinance survey. I was hooked on countries I knew I'd never be able to visit, but through their maps I was there, exploring. Later on in life I became a lorry driver in Europe, driving in all the European countries using just a map, even today I don't have, want or need a satnav, maps only. Now retired, I will sometimes get a map out to trace a journey I once did, just for the fun if it.. I sometimes think that if the satellites fell out the sky, half the population couldn't find their way home..
@@chubeye1187 Actually, far from it - at least for urban maps. The best ever were the Victorian 60" to 1 mile - you don't get detail like that anymore. A lot of the urban stuff you purchase now for use in AutoCAD is, to put it tactfully, extremely disappointing.
@@ontheisland11 you do realise it is the same data (the old 50 inch is the 1:1250 data that was been digitised int he late 1990s) - and in many areas positional accuracy has been improved.
I wouldn't trust a Satnav as far as I could throw it. It makes people lazy and also does not take into account the fact that it has caused more problems than it's worth. Too many bells and whistles. Learn to read a map!
Sat Navs are a bloody rip off. I've had my Tom Tom, 5 years and now they won't let me update it. So I'll buy a modern A-Z of Britain map. I can still read a map as I was brought up with them.
I get a lot of pleasure from 'reading' OS maps - they are such works of art. And it amazes me how much intricate detail is captured on the paper maps - or now on the digital forms on phones and laptops.
I'd be lost without them! 😂❤
I sometimes wonder why they used such extraordinarily beautiful [light] music to accompany these films - and most documentary type footage back then. I suppose they could have used any [then current] pop or jazz. Maybe cost came into it; library music and so on. More modern [post 60's] films and docs seem to use what I would say is 'one dimensional' music and background sounds - dominated by folk or pop styles.
Whatever the reason they used what they did, I'm very grateful for it. I find this sort of music moving, atmospheric and it instantly puts me into a wistful [or deeper] mood. I become nostalgic - not only for the period depicted, but also for the plaintive approach taken in such filmed records.
What it may have actually been like to be there at time is for me somewhat irrelevant - when faced with this level of recorded art.
We have the most accurate and best mapping in the world. Well done OS!
From around aged 10 when my friends were reading comics, childrens adventure books and the classics, I was reading world atlases, large and small scale maps and, best of all, ordinance survey. I was hooked on countries I knew I'd never be able to visit, but through their maps I was there, exploring. Later on in life I became a lorry driver in Europe, driving in all the European countries using just a map, even today I don't have, want or need a satnav, maps only. Now retired, I will sometimes get a map out to trace a journey I once did, just for the fun if it.. I sometimes think that if the satellites fell out the sky, half the population couldn't find their way home..
Good stuff. Interesting to see that back in the day HMSO had retail shops.
A much simpler nicer time in the UK.
Hiking in collar and tie. Marvellous.
some people today seem to think games kit is acceptable for everyday wear even for work, a definite decline in standards
@@Satters A decline in spelling as well.
@@paulbaker654 mea culpa, apologies, now corrected
@@Satters probably smokes a pipe whilst walking up Ben Nevis .
@@paulbaker654I would say , more like a decline in written English generally : poor punctuation, terrible grammar and diabolical syntax.😂😂
Wonderful film. I lost all my OS Maps when I moved in 2011. I had quite a few dating back to the 1930's. I can't think where the hell they went.
Brilliant!
Thanks for posting.
I’d give anything to go back to the 1950’s and 1960’s for an easier/better/different life.
Me too, my wife keeps saying I live in the past, maybe I do, but its a better place than today
@@gsxrinfrance5827 Trouble was we can’t go back, have to go forward, if only I could buy a Time Machine or BBC TARDIS that could take me back.
All retro+ British lovely
Very good !
Quite historic. It's all digital now, and the manpower has been slashed by about 90%.
And more accurate
@@chubeye1187 Actually, far from it - at least for urban maps. The best ever were the Victorian 60" to 1 mile - you don't get detail like that anymore. A lot of the urban stuff you purchase now for use in AutoCAD is, to put it tactfully, extremely disappointing.
@@ontheisland11 you do realise it is the same data (the old 50 inch is the 1:1250 data that was been digitised int he late 1990s) - and in many areas positional accuracy has been improved.
I wouldn't trust a Satnav as far as I could throw it. It makes people lazy and also does not take into account the fact that it has caused more problems than it's worth. Too many bells and whistles. Learn to read a map!
Accept these men missed a large housing estate on the outskirts of Nottingham for at least two series
I cannot accept that. This must be a conspiracy.
No sat nav just printed paper but we managed..
Sat Navs are a bloody rip off. I've had my Tom Tom, 5 years and now they won't let me update it. So I'll buy a modern A-Z of Britain map. I can still read a map as I was brought up with them.
Never appreciated how good we had it did we? vigilance is an eternal condition of freedom.
'The OS comes under the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food'. What else?
Silly Walks.
it had been part of the War Office
It was a civil service department. The Tory govt has made it a govt business. Not quite privatised but almost.
What do you think ordnance means?
@@chubeye1187 Military hardware and stores. Why, what do you think it means?
Lifetime.