Maps - Kent

Kent

Carr reported in his History of the QTP (1987) that there were four editions of maps of Kent. What I thought was the first map turns out to be the second, and someone has kindly sent me a photo of the proof of the third map, so I have recorded them all. If you have a coloured proof of the third map please let me know. I will acknowledge your contribution.

(Last updated on 21/7/2026)

MAP-KEN1: First edition

Publisher: J.L. Carr, 27 Mill Dale Road, Kettering

Year: 1967?

ISBN: none

Limitation: none stated, just the number

Size: 303 x 432 mm

Paper: thin white card

Colophon: sun face with address in lower right edge

Signed: Yes, pencil

Proofs where: AH

Notes: This map has no date and no limitation, just 'No 6' written in pencil to the right of the full colophon with Carr's address, which first appeared in about 1967, hence the presumed date of this map. In the lower left corner is a poem dated Manston and Swingfield 1944, which is probably by J.L. Carr as he was stationed there soon after he joined the R.A.F. (see next version)

The camp is still, the dying fire

Flickers across your painted shire

This map we made with brush & pen

Memorial to some Englishmen.

They went their way: at rest they lie.

We dared not let their memory die,

For, in some fierce extremity,

We must match our destiny.

Image of map (click to enlarge)

Detail of limitation (click to enlarge)

MAP-KEN2: Second edition

Publisher: J.L. Carr, 27 Mill Dale Road, Kettering

Year: [September 1969 according to ISBN]

ISBN: 0900847018

Limitation: 507 sheets

Size: 434 x 418 mm (the sheet may have been trimmed)

Paper: thin grey card

Colophon: sun face with address in lower right hand corner

Signed: Not seen

Proofs where: Kettering Public Library (proof); AH (unsigned map)

Notes: In the lower left corner is the same poem by Carr that was reproduced on the first edition, but it is dated R.A.F Manston October 1941, which is probably right as he was stationed there when he joined the R.A.F.

The green edge is the background on which the map was photographed. The map may have been trimmed unevenly to the edge and bits could be lost if I trimmed the image to create straight edges.