Mayson's Ordnance model of the Lake District : exhibited daily during the year at the Lake District Repository, Lake Road, Keswick...
Mayson (Firm).
Great Britain.Ordnance Survey.
Keswick : Mayson,
[ca. 1873]
Approximate date from sale catalogue (Michael Moon, Cumbria, 1992).
Note in sale catalogue: "Mayson's - Keswick's first photographers and postcard sellers had a huge plastic model of the Lakes built from the OS map by an Italian sculptor, which they displayed in their vast studio in Lake Road. When folding maps were uncommon and people were unused to climbing, they studied routes on the model and went off for a day's climb afterwards. It was still there about ten years ago [ie. ca. 1982], leaning against a wall, rainwater running down it from a hole in the roof. Where is it now?"