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on Winchester 1871 Left to right: Dr Mark Allen, Giles Darkes
and Prof Martin Biddle, outside the Guildhall which dates from
1871 INTEREST in history is alive and kicking in Winchester
judging by the lack of empty seats in the Guildhall. In the week
that the discovery of King Richard III was confirmed and
national newspapers caught up four months late on the Chronicle
story that the bones of King Alfred could be exhumed, a sell-out
audience enjoyed 1871 And All That… or The Way We Were, hearing
an archaeologist, historian and cartographer make sense of the
rich seam that is Winchester history. Prof Martin Biddle spoke
about the impending publication of the ‘map that never existed’
a reproduction of what the city looked like in 1800. So how do
you reproduce a map that never existed? Simple: “The basis was
the 1871 Ordnance Survey map but we wanted to show the city in
1800 so all the elemen