{"title":"Archer Street","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"goad-london-214-w1-sw1-piccadilly-circus-shaftesbury-avenue-1950-1970-map-p-9-001082","title":"Goad London 214—W1\/SW1—Piccadilly Circus—Shaftesbury Avenue 1950 (1970) map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eCharles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 214 [Piccadilly Circus, Shaftesbury Avenue, Coventry Street and the London Pavilion]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eGoad's fire insurance plan of London, sheet 214, covers Piccadilly Circus and Shaftesbury Avenue (W1 and SW1), where the Lyric, Apollo, Piccadilly and Criterion Theatres all still play. The Lyric of 1888 is the avenue's oldest survivor. The London Pavilion, by then a cinema, closed in 1981 and was gutted in 1986 behind its façade of 1885, and it now holds a Zedwell hotel that opened in September 2025. On Great Windmill Street, the Cameo News Theatre closed in 1990 and is a restaurant today. At No. 41, the basement cinema-club label identifies the premises of the Scene, the mod club of 1963–66 where the Rolling Stones and the Who played. The Who appeared on 26 August 1964, during their brief spell as the High Numbers; the Scene itself had closed before the sheet's final revision. Behind the theatres, in the sheet's day, National Car Parks occupied valuable ground around Ham Yard, where the Ham Yard Hotel of 2014 brought accommodation, shops and restaurants, a striking change from vehicle storage to the visitor economy. Goad's working plans were made to assess property and fire risk, and they were kept current with pasted overlays recording new uses, altered layouts, demolition and rebuilding. The latest dated correction is October 1970, on a large overlay marking an area vacant. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in October 1950, with a 1950 copyright date, and the key plan acquired with this group records corrections to October 1970. Other streets on the sheet include Coventry Street, Piccadilly, Regent Street, Haymarket, Jermyn Street, Rupert Street, Sherwood Street, Archer Street, Denman Street and Oxendon Street.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371690807643,"sku":"P-9-001082","price":280.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-9-001082a_8002d1c3-a24f-4e55-8aa1-007b8bcab3e3.jpg?v=1792148974"},{"product_id":"goad-london-219-w1-soho-wardour-berwick-old-compton-streets-1958-1970-map-p-9-001087","title":"Goad London 219—W1—Soho—Wardour, Berwick \u0026 Old Compton Streets 1958 (1970) map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eCharles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 219 [Soho: Wardour Street, Berwick Street, Old Compton Street and Shaftesbury Avenue]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eGoad's fire insurance plan of London, sheet 219, covers Soho around Wardour Street and Berwick Street (W1). The film laboratories and studios, cutting rooms and photo-engraving premises it records make the work behind the entertainment industry tangible. Wardour Street was the centre of the British film trade through the twentieth century, but by the century's end the big companies had gone, leaving independent post-production houses. The sheet also explicitly names the Marquee Club at 90 Wardour Street, its home from 1964 to 1988. The Who began their Tuesday residency on 24 November 1964, Pink Floyd played the Spontaneous Underground from 13 March 1966, and Led Zeppelin appeared on 18 October 1968 while still billed as the Yardbirds; Jimi Hendrix and David Bowie also played here. The club was operating when the sheet was last corrected, and its site later became Soho Lofts. At 59 Old Compton Street, the club-and-restaurant label marks the 2i's Coffee Bar, where Tommy Steele, Cliff Richard and musicians who became the Shadows helped launch British rock 'n' roll. It operated from 1956 to 1970, closing in the year of the final revision. The Wardour Garage car park beside Richmond Buildings, operated by Parking Managements Ltd in the sheet's day, became the Soho Hotel of 2004, which has its restaurant entrance on Flaxman Court. In this way a service site was given over to visitor accommodation. The sheet also names the Eros Hotel, the Swiss Hotel and the Police Offices, while Berwick Street's market, founded in 1778, still fills the street. Goad's plans were drawn to assess property and fire risk, and they were kept current with pasted overlays recording new uses, altered layouts, demolition and rebuilding. On this sheet a vacancy annotation carries the latest date, October 1970. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in November 1958, with a 1958 copyright date, and the key plan acquired with this group records corrections to October 1970. Other streets on the sheet include Broadwick Street, Hopkins Street, Peter Street, Brewer Street, Old Compton Street, Great Windmill Street, Archer Street, Bourchier Street, Winnett Street, Rupert Street and Shaftesbury Avenue.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371691692379,"sku":"P-9-001087","price":230.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-9-001087a_4eba4540-afa7-4cb9-8c8a-823de2d11448.jpg?v=1792148976"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/collections\/archer-street.oembed","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}