Not to be confused with the original Cambridge
Explorer CD the Cambridgeshire Explorer CD-ROM is nearing completion.
Release date is expected to be 1st October 2002. Hugo Brown is now
taking advance orders. If you want any details please visit his web site; any other questions
should be addressed to him at: hugob@wyverncrest.co.uk.
It's been a mammoth project which covers "Old"
Cambridgeshire. There will be approximately 1,700 photographs (1,000
from the Cambridgeshire Collection) with much better indexing than
with the Cambridge Explorer as there has also been added the "photo-album"
which allows you to look at all the photographs in order without
having to go back and forth from the indexes.
There are 189 different locations listed on the
CD covering all but the smallest hamlets. There are photos of nearly
every church in the old county and there are a large selection of
schools, public houses, railway stations and village signs, plus
many other well known land marks.
There will be at least 4 different maps. The main
one being the Kelly's 1904 map that has been fully hyper linked
from the map to the individual locations of which there are 189
listed on the CD. There are also 2 railway maps and a Cambridge
Street map.
Finally there is an index of the Kelly's 1904 Directory
with each entry linking direct to the original page that will eventually
contain approximately 20,000 names as listed.
For the Cambridgeshire Family Historian it is doubtful
if there has been such a comprehensive source of information.
The expectation is to sell the CD-ROM on a similar
basis as with the Cambridge Explorer. Price is expected to be £20
plus P&P. Hugo is offering £2 discount for advance
orders by 31st August 2002. All known users of the original Cambridge
Explorer will be contacted individually and will be offered an extra
£2 discount for advance orders. His web-site has further details
- see link.
NOTE: The site for The
Cambridge Explorer and The Cambridgeshire Explorer has changed
as per the link here.