A tactile map is mounted on this display table, it highlights a few of the notable heritage locations found around the borough of Merton, it also shows some of the heritage assets featured in our current exhibition, including our local contributions to industry such as Liberty print works and Connolly’s leather works, our links to women’s suffrage and Merton Place, the only home Nelson ever owned and lived in. The table is split into two large sections, the map itself on the left and a key on the right. The map includes prominent local landmarks, points of interest, braille and raised text. The left column of the key denotes the meaning of symbols and the right column lists the names of points of interest around the map, denoted my raised capital initials and braille below. The map features various textures to indicate different elements shown, such as small cogs on a black background, to denote sites of industrial significance, small shopping trollies on a yellow background,, to indicate retail areas and small leaves on a green background to denote parks and open spaces. Several well-known landmarks are also included, such as the River Wandle (to the right: depicted as a thin blue line, running vertically with raised edges and Wimbledon Station to the top left (depicted by the British Rail logo, two short horizontal lines with a third crossing right to left at 45 degrees), and Dorset Hall, towards the middle and to the left. The black line with alternate dashes and dots, running from top left diagonally towards bottom right, shows the Tramlink, the light railway joining Wimbledon to Croydon, following the disused branch railway which itself joined the line of the old Surrey Iron Railway in Mitcham.

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