Mapping the extant historic urban street furniture found in Lancaster. Boot scrapers, corner guards, ghost signs, mosaic doorways, fire insurance plaques, early sewer grids, drinking fountains, benches from the cotton famine employment scheme and all other unique Lancastrian features in the built environment.

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To mark Lancashire Day 2025, I’m please to launch another unique map resource of Lancaster- this time allowing the user to explore, layer by layer remaining unique features in Lancaster’s historic urban environment. I am very grateful for the the assistance of my friend, colleague and fellow historian Daniel Greene in the research, photography and plotting of the locations. This map also includes the previous work I did with Phil Martin (HistoryGeek26) on the ghost signs layer.

Each layer/feature type is colour coded with its own symbol; tick or un-tick each layer to see only the feature type that you wish to see.

For any errors or places you think are missing, let me know and I’ll correct or add them.