This is a fascinating black and white reprint of an old Ordnance Survey map. On the reverse there are some introductory notes and a place name index.

The maps each cover the same area, stretching from Portland Street eastward to Galley Wall Road and Bramcote Road, from Southwark Park Road southward to Bird-in-Bush Road. A long stretch of the Old Kent Road runs diagonally through this busy map, which covers the area between Southwark, Bermondsey and Peckham. The map is dominated by streets of housing, although a few empty areas still survive on the 1871 map. Other features include the Surrey Canal, Bricklayers Arms railway branch and Goods Depot, Glengall Works, Newington Institution, South Metropolitan Gas Works, Lock's Field, tramways, small factories along the canal. The 1914 map mentions the following wards: St Peter's, Coburg, Addington, St George's, Marlborough, North Peckham and No.4 Bermondsey Wards. Streets include Old Kent Road, Albany Road, Southwark Park Road, Lynton Road and countless others. Each map includes extracts from directories; 1871 map has a directory for Old Kent Road itself. The 1914 map includes information about the OS by Richard Oliver.