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"Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee" <[log in to unmask]>
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Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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Thu, 12 Dec 2013 06:54:23 -0600
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This is pretty neat - I'm forwarding an email from the road map
collector group ...

Angie


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Subject:        RM: Road maps - the musical!
Date:   Wed, 11 Dec 2013 22:44:48 -0000
From:   Ian Byrne <[log in to unmask]>
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Note quite, but the Southwark Playhouse, a theatre in South London is
putting on a musical early next year called "The A-Z of Mrs P".  It's
based on the autobiography of Phyllis Pearsall the eccentric founder of
the Geographers' A-Z Map Company.

On the linked page you can even here a preview of one of the songs, which
explains how Mrs P walked around the city getting to know it intimately -
it was this personal attention to detail that made the A-Z street maps the
ones that became the default choice of Londoners for the last 75 years.

http://southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/the-large/the-a-z-of-mrs-p/

Ian

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