About

Welcome to Time Travels! I love looking at old maps, and I hope you do too. This site makes it super easy to navigate through different map pages and compate the same area acrcoss different years.

The site is free to use and free from ads, but if you want to show your appreciation, you can buy me a coffee at Ko-Fi.

If you have any of your own out-of-copyright maps you'd like to contribute, you can contact me at timetravels.au@outlook.com.

Credits and Attributions

Sydney maps on this site are from Gregory's street directory of Sydney and suburbs. The maps were sourced from the State Library of NSW, with some missing pages added from other sources.

1st edition, published 1935 (Out of copyright, public domain)
11th edition, published 1942 (Out of copyright, public domain)
20th edition, published 1954 (Out of copyright, public domain)

Melbourne maps on this site are from Morgan's street directory of Melbourne and suburbs. The maps were sourced from the State Library of Victoria, with some missing pages added from other sources.

1935 edition (Out of copyright, public domain)
1942 edition (Out of copyright, public domain)
1952 edition (Out of copyright, public domain)

Brisbane maps on this site are from Refidex Directory Maps, Greater Brisbane Area.

1926 edition (Out of copyright, public domain)
1949 edition (Out of copyright, public domain)

Adelaide maps on this site are from Gregory's street directory of Adelaide and suburbs. The maps were sourced from the State Library of South Australia.

1st edition, published 1936 (Out of copyright, public domain)

Current day maps are provided by Google.

Other sites

For other old maps of Sydney, check out these sites:

Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney - maps of various parts of Sydney from the 1880s
Wilson's Authentic Director - includes some crazy hand-drawn maps from 1902
OpenHistoricalMap - A fork of OpenStreetMap that anyone can edit, showing how our world has changed over time