| Section 5 - Landscape change - past to future
This Section uses the maps and images of the urban area to examine how those areas have changed. It is possible to trace the development of the urban areas from the eighteenth century to present in some locations where estate maps exist. The following series of maps show parts of the Longfleet and Parkstone areas of Poole . They are given here to exemplify the materials available. The same approach could be used for other locations, although the estate maps are only available covering the old Parish of Canford Magna, the Lulworth area and smaller areas in West Dorset.
This map shows part of an estate map of Longfleet and Parkstone from the period around 1770. The road patterns are the easiest component of the map to compare with the present day.
Sample Learning Activity 5.1
Dating the streets
Activity
Using Map Viewer, identify which parts of the present day urban structure can be traced back to these patterns of 200 years ago.
Analysis
Using a modern day street map, identify which streets are identifiable on the older maps. Classify streets according to their age
Outcome 1
From this information, produce a map which classifies the age of the street according to the earliest map on which it appears. 
The following images allow you first to compare alongside each other the estate map and the tithe map. This provides evidence for the changes between the 1770s and 1840s Parkstone Tithe and Estate map 1770s .
Sample Learning Activity 5.2
Dating the buildings as well
Activity
This next image allows you to compare the street and building patterns in the 1840s with the 1880s. The Tithe Apportionment also allows you to identify the ownership and occupancy of the landholdings. Old Street Directories and Telephone Directories which are not in this archive would allow you to add detail to this comparison. In addition, as the Census details for this period have become more accessible, it is now possible to use that information in conjunction with the maps to identify the occupants and their activities in great detail.
Parkstone Tithe and OS 1 st Ed 6 inch 1880s
Outcome
From this information, produce a map which classifies the age of the street and buildings according to the earliest map on which they appear.
Sample Learning Activity 5.3
The changing land-use mapped
Background
In the 1930s a nationwide Land Utilisation Survey was carried out which identified the usage of every plot. The following map is the only one in this archive. It shows the patterns of land use in the area of Poole and Purbeck.
The original is held in the Bournemouth Borough archives.
The next map covers part of the same area as the Estate and Tithe Maps and is typical of the field sheets on which the detailed survey information was compiled. The original is in the Dorset County Museum .
Activity
Carry out the analysis and map comparison outlined in 5.2.
Analysis
Describe the main changes which have taken place:
- Are there any distinct patterns of change?
- Does the Tithe Apportionment provide clues to the changes?
- Using the Tithe Apportionment, Tithe Map and a modern map, can you identify and map areas, streets and buildings which remain from the earlier period?
- Do they have particular functions? The building may still exist but its function may have changed.
Outcome
A report which outlines a spatial history of this area's land use
Sample Learning Activity 5.4
The effects of infrastructure change
Background
In many of the small coastal towns the biggest change in their form and function took place after the arrival of the railways. This image compares the area around Swanage railway station before the arrival of the railway and 40 years later when the railway was in place and Swanage had begun to develop as a seaside resort.
Activity
Students take copies of the map (if appropriate, on laptops) into the area and annotate the features which still exist, identifying their age.
Analysis
They can be asked questions about any changes which have taken place in the use of the buildings as well as how the changes to the town may have affected the urban landscape. There are photographic images in the Image Library .
Outcome
Discussion of the effects which future changes might have. For example, consider the issue in this case of access to the renovated Durlston Castle.
USING MAPS IN FILMS, MUSICALS AND DRAMA TO EXPLORE MODERN ISSUES
The New Smugglers suggests that performances could be based upon smuggling themes using archival material as a stimulus and content. For example, the Canadian Calgary Opera's ‘ Filumena ' is based on the true story of one of the few women to be hanged in Canada . http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/ A similar story could be developed for modern drug or people smugglers.
Old newspaper reports, maps and archival images might be used in any number of different docu-dramas to provide information about the landscape, clothing, actions and attitudes of a past period which then in turn provides a context for interpretation of modern dilemmas
An ACTIVITY for Citizenship, Drama, Music, Art, Geography and History might draw upon the stories of smugglers, such as Harriet Tubman or Isaac Gulliver, and produce a short play or musical which brings the story into the present time.
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