Comparing maps

You need two maps, from 1929 and 2005

1929

2005

Reproduced from Landranger^® 1:50 000 scale map 154 by permission of Ordnance Survey^® on behalf of The Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office. ©Crown copyright 1997. All rights reserved. Licence number WL9725.

1. On the old map find Abington Hall. Can you describe the area around the Hall?

2. The area around Abington Hall is now called Granta Park. What can you find in Granta Park in 2005?

3. Can you find the railway on each map? What do you notice?

4. Look at the roads on each map. What big difference do you notice on the map from 2005?

5. Which map shows the most buildings?

What is Abington Hall used for today?

This is a photograph of Abington Hall taken in 2005.
What two things in the picture tell you that it is now used as a place where people work instead of the home of a family?

List the 3 main uses of Abington hall today.

The Entrance Hall Then and now


Year of photograph __________	Year of photograph __________

One family lived in the hall in 1929.
One photograph is how it looked when they sold it.
In 2005 the hall was used for many different things

Meetings
Offices for a publisher
Weddings

Write down 3 things that were in the entrance hall when it was a home in 1929.

What 3 things do you find in the entrance hall today?

Drawing Room Abington Hall 1929

This room was called the drawing room.
Today we would call it a sitting room, front room or lounge.
It is a very large room.
It measures 25 feet 6 inches (7 metres 77 centimetres) by 18 feet (5 metres 49 centimetres).

Make a list of what you can see in this room.

Compare this to a list of what you find in your lounge at home.
Measure the size of your lounge.
How much bigger is the lounge in Abington Hall?

Why does the hall have an arched window?

This photograph is the view out of the arched window. It allowed the owners to look at the river, the church in Great Abington and the church in Little Abington.

Old or New?

What do you think this room is used for today?

What do you think the family who owned the Hall used this room for?

Make a list of the things in the room that you think are old and which are new.

Old

New

How Big is Abington Hall?

Use a trundle wheel, tape measure or ruler to measure the length of Abington Hall.

Go to one end and measure the width of Abington Hall.

Stand back and estimate how tall the hall is. Remember the porch is 2.5 metres tall.