Have you ever met a globemaker?

But Bellerby & Co is not a quaint old family business or dusty relic — it was founded in 2008, in a tucked-away corner of Stoke Newington. Bellerby is Peter Bellerby, who started it all partly out of frustration. Wanting to buy a globe for his father's 80th birthday, he could find only antique versions, at astonishing prices, or the feeble kind used by students before Google Maps. The answer was to make his own, and so he did. Two, the plan was — one for him, one for his dad. How hard could it be? He reasoned a few months of labour and a few thousand pounds in cost. His reasoning was wrong: in the end, it took two years and, he says, his life savings. What had seemed easy was anything but: finding a sphere proved almost impossible, an accurate map even harder.

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But Bellerby & Co is not a quaint old family business or dusty relic — it was founded in 2008, in a tucked-away corner of Stoke Newington. Bellerby is Peter Bellerby, who started it all partly out of frustration. Wanting to buy a globe for his father's 80th birthday, he could find only antique versions, at astonishing prices, or the feeble kind used by students before Google Maps. The answer was to make his own, and so he did. Two, the plan was — one for him, one for his dad. How hard could it be? He reasoned a few months of labour and a few thousand pounds in cost. His reasoning was wrong: in the end, it took two years and, he says, his life savings. What had seemed easy was anything but: finding a sphere proved almost impossible, an accurate map even harder.

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