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  1. rjw

    oldmaps site to shut.

    As title. The oldmaps.co.uk site will close permanently on 31st October. No reason given. Probably due to people like me who spent hours on the site but never bought anything  :-[ I'll miss all the stuff from the 50s and 60s especially. Love the cartography and fonts from those eras.
  2. rjw

    Goaf, gob and ogof.

    Browsing through a technical report on mine water rebound and there is a footnote that says: ?Goaf and ?gob? are both derived from the Welsh word ?ogof?, meaning a cave. can anyone confirm or deny? Various online dictionaries say origin unknown for goaf. The word goaf seems to be the common...
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