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Richard Webb
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Knackered ex orienteer and map collector- now on a bike much of the time. Hill bagger.
East Lothian.

Unfortunately due to some authoritarian overreach from our neighbours and overlords and over enthusiastic compliance, I am unable to easily access DMs.
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Titterstone Clee Hill 1984. 1980s Harlequins maps had a very distinctive look. Fast grassland with mining and quarrying heritage. #Orienteering #OldOrienteeringMaps #Maps #Shropshire #Harlequins
Orienteering map of a quarried open area rising to 533m. Yellow screen used for the open grassland. No green screen used, nor needed. An overprinted M19/M35 course.
November 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Blea Tarn 1980. Northern Championships. I was lucky enough to run on this map again, many years later. A superb area with runnable grassland and lovely scenery. Finish was in a big garden. #OldOrienteeringMaps #LakeDistrict #Maps #Orienteering #WCOC
www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3618732
A large five colour 1:10000 orienteering map of the north side of Eskdale, Cumberland. Mostly open and a pale yellow is used for this. There are extensive marshes and I had to pull myself out of one. A M19 course is marked up, finishing in a garden at the west end of the map. A very steep slope runs the length of the southern edge with a gently sloping marshy plateau above,
November 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Heading north - Cargo ship in the fjords of Patagonia, a few hours out from Puerto Natales
Calm sea with a Scottish sized hill in the background, mostly rocky with snow on a rounded summit. A large and obviously not fully laden cargo vessel with high slab sides is moving away from the camera. White and lower down blue hull with GLOVIS in large letters. There is a vehicle ramp at the squared off stern suggesting it may be a lorry ferry
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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How many years will Authoritarian Labour demand for this "illegal" demonstration?
November 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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East Monaughty 1980. Clearfelling soon took this forest off the fixture list. I would have spent a lot of time on an EUOC bus to get there. Premarked maps were a well loved luxury at this time.
#OldOrienteeringMaps #Maps #Orienteering #Moray #MoravianOrienteers

www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3249538
A 1:15000 scribed orienteering map of the forest behind Pluscarden Abbey, Morayshire. The forest is runnable with a lot of clear felled coupes. The clear fell symbol used is a yellow and white diagonal striping screen which was used a fair bit at this time. A small sheet and a very attractive map. M19 - M35 course overprint.
November 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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For the first time for many years I had a go. Getting around the Orange course without mishap.
Sunny day in woodland. There is a big path on the left with two walkers whilst a runner in blue orienteering kit approaches a control flag below a small crag. Winter light, low sun and no leaves on trees.
November 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Blackford Hill event today on a 1:5000 map. Nearly 50 years ago the maps had smaller scales - 1:15,000
#OldOrienteeringMaps #Map #ESOC
1:15000 drawn five colour map of a campus and three parks in the suburbs of southern Edinburgh, Most of the yellow was grazed by dairy cattle then.
November 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Moorland near Selkirk. Looking east from the edge of Elibank Forest with self seeded Sitka everywhere. Grazed by sheep and their tracks made walking here unbelievably easy.
Snow covered heather. There is a burn with a shallow descent into the picture and lots of small spruce trees scattered over the moor. Everywhere into the distant view is snow covered.
November 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Autumn turns to Winter - a handover shot with the last of the colour on the larches vrs the first of the snow. Elibank Forest, Tweeddale today.
A forest road running through larch woods, now almost without needles. Sunshine with a dusting of snow on the road which curves gently down the centre, first left and then right. There are two red tyre tracks coloured by fallen needles. Background sky is cloudy.
November 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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By the time you get to 20th November, Autumn is long gone. No longer mists and mellow fruitfulness. Farm thing I suppose.
Wonderful weather - I was out in Tweeddale today and really enjoyed the fluffy snow and watching the big snow clouds passing the east coast.
Snow covered moorland in sunshine. A dyke runs down the left of the shot with felled forestry on the other side. In the distance there are clouds, bringing snow to northeast England.
November 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Out in #Berwickshire today - snow fell wet unfortunately and the roads were skating rinks. Kept to the fields when possible. Descent from this modest hill (Haliburton Hill) through the snow was rather fun. #Fatbike #Lammermuirs
November 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Last goal chalked off - outside the shooting area! #VAR image below. 3-2

#Scotland #Denmark #Subbuteo #WorldCup
Subbuteo action shot. Colour of player uncertain but it could be all dark blue. Green base though. A shot is about to be taken from just over the half way line. Very much a recreation of Scotland's fourth goal. In Subbuteo long range shots don't count for scaling reasons.
November 19, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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More sodding balloon litter-this time above Tyndrum on what I suspect is a little visited hill(Meall Buidhe)
A right pain to carry off due to it being full of ice so could not go in my pack.Tied it on the outside.
How much of this shite is lying out there on the hills or washed up on the shoreline?
Grassy sunny hillside - grass yellow dun Winter colour. There is a wire square mesh fence and below it a blue party balloon - the helium is probably lost to space by now but the plasticy stuff remains.
November 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Auchtertyre #viaduct, #Perthshire. Carrying the West Highland #Railway between Tyndrum Upper and Crianlarich.
Gravel road passing under a high railway bridge. The viaduct is made of green girders supported by stone pillars. On the right of the road there is a steep descent into a gorge so the track is high above the burn. It is a bright sunny day with a blue sky. Trees bare at the start of Winter.
November 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Poplars, #Herefordshire. There were cattle grazing here as well.
Field with poplars planted in it, the trees are coming into leaf providing a very green image.
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Pickering Forest 1980. British Relay Championships. #NorthYorkMoors, #EBOR #Orienteering #Maps #OldOrienteeringMaps
1:10000 scribed orienteering map of a runnable forest on a steep slope overlooking a railway. There is striking line of crags shown with a sawtooth symbol rather than the usual crag symbol. Very clear map with the shade of green associated with EBOR maps of the time.
November 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Castle Malwood 1980. #NewForest.
Scene of the killing of the Norman king William II. This is the southern edge of the 1980s British Championships area and used as a warm up event.
#OldOrienteeringMaps #Maps #Orienteering #SouthamptonOrienteeringClub #Regicide ?
A very long (East west) orienteering map of runnable New Forest terrain with the usual bright yellow bits where the pony grazing lawns are. 5 colours with lots of controls, there were suggested combinations. Not a competitive event.
November 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Connel Bridge, #Argyll, #Scotland
Built as a railway bridge and for a while was used by road traffic as well as the railway. Below are the Falls of Lora where the apron at the mouth of a fjord is at sea level, so a waterfall in the sea can form at certain stages at certain stages of the tide.
Road bridge, viewed from the deck. One lane for traffic and a pavement on the left (east). The sea below is not visible in the picture. There are many grey girders beside and above the roadway.
November 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Wrekin 1979. E. half of the map which included some very brambly industrial ground on limestone as well as the Uriconian ridge itself. 1st use was for the Midland Championships. This map was for a use up the map stock badge event #OldOrienteeringMaps #Orienteering #Maps #WrekinOrienteers #Shropshire
An extract - eastern half of a five colour 1:15000 orienteering map of a steep ridge and nearby limestone woodland which has been quarried and mined. Surrounding farmland is also shown giving an overall yellow appearance but the competition area was entirely forest. Dave Gittus, Wrekin Orienteers.
November 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Stob Coire a' Chearcaill, a 770m hill opposite Fort William. #Ardgour #Argyll #Hills #Scotland.
Taken in 1991, scanned from a slide.
A moorland glen with some native woodland. There are sheep in the middle distance The background is a long level ridge with snow covered crags and sheltered bowls full of snow. Blue sky and a very brown appearance.
November 4, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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King's Garn Gutter #NewForest 1980
British Championships M19 course. Very hot, very runnable.
#OldOrienteeringMaps #Orienteering #Maps #SouthamptonOrienteeringClub
1:15000 orienteering map - very runnable forest and a very white looking map. Good condition as maps were not returned after your run and you got a clean one once everyone had started,
November 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Woodland, Craig a Barns, #Perthshire Nov 2nd. Much of the forest above the Cave Pass has been felled. Some survivors here.
Sunlit woodland. Foreground open with a few young trees. Mostly Scots pine with straight trunks, understory of Autumn coloured larch.
November 3, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Cramond, 1980 Cramond to Silverknowes with a photocopied map for an evening event. Mapped by Carol McNeil and others from Dunfermline College, the big black buildings on the west of the area (now houses). #OldOrienteeringMaps #OMaps #Orienteering #ESOC
www.geograph.org.uk/photo/10101
Black and white 1:10000 map of Cramond from the Almond to Muirhouse including Silverknowes golf course Woodland in Winter with a burn disappearing into a culvert. Two rhododendron bushes either side of the water add a little green.
November 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Lago Todos Los Santos, Chile
House in the traditional local style, shingle walls and roof but built upon a raft in a still lake. There is a wooded background with a symmetrical conical volcano beyond. The volcano is snowcapped against a blue sky.
November 1, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Happendon 1978. Another from the golden age of scribing. I was familiar with the map from Harvey's JK stands. Now only the eastern part is used, it is not possible to cross the motorway that has been built since. #OldOrienteeringMaps, #Orienteering #Lanarkshire
A very fine scribed map by Harveys Map Services, then of Dunblane. A rather green area with a dual carriageway running through it. Then it was possible to cross the road via a disused railway but a few years later a motorway was built with no crossings. 1:15,000 five colour. Runnable Sitka spruce plantation. Flat with little in the way of ground vegetation or brashings.
October 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM