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Swinging Sixties London, building by building. These working copies of Charles Goad’s fire insurance plans were updated with pasted-on slips up to 1971, recording the city as the Sixties ended: every shop, workshop, warehouse and club, with its trade written in. Their fascination is a London since vanished: Bankside Power Station is now Tate Modern, Fleet Street’s newspaper presses left for Wapping and Docklands, and Camden’s timber yard has become Camden Market. Shoreditch’s furniture factories and the meat and fish merchants of Leadenhall Market, of Harry Potter fame, record trades that have moved on, and the Old Street printers’ quarter has morphed into today’s Silicon Roundabout. Soho’s legendary lost music haunts of the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Hendrix and Bowie are all here, while MI6 hides in plain sight.

Swinging Sixties London, building by building. These working copies of Charles Goad’s fire insurance plans were updated with pasted-on slips up to 1971, recording the city as the Sixties ended: every shop, workshop, warehouse and club, with its trade written in. Their fascination is a London since vanished: Bankside Power Station is now Tate Modern, Fleet Street’s newspaper presses left for Wapping and Docklands, and Camden’s timber yard has become Camden Market. Shoreditch’s furniture factories and the meat and fish merchants of Leadenhall Market, of Harry Potter fame, record trades that have moved on, and the Old Street printers’ quarter has morphed into today’s Silicon Roundabout. Soho’s legendary lost music haunts of the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Hendrix and Bowie are all here, while MI6 hides in plain sight.

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