{"title":"Bloomsbury Square","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"goad-london-201-wc1-bloomsbury-sq-st-george-s-great-russell-st-1944-1970-map-p-9-001163","title":"Goad London 201—WC1—Bloomsbury Sq—St George's—Great Russell St 1944 (1970) map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eCharles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 201 [Bloomsbury Square, Bloomsbury Way, Great Russell Street and St George's Bloomsbury]\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 201, covers Bloomsbury Square and St George's Church Bloomsbury (WC1), Hawksmoor's church of 1716–31, which was restored and reopened in 2006. The sheet catches the area on the brink of change, as the Co-op Permanent Building Society offices it marks belonged to a society that was renamed Nationwide in 1970, the year of the last corrections. It also marks the YWCA premises, and change soon reached Bloomsbury Square itself, which was dug up for an underground car park in 1971–73. The White Hall Hotel is shown occupying James Burton's Montague Street terrace of 1803–06, and the sheet also names Bloomsbury Mansions and the British Museum frontage on Great Russell Street. Goad's working plans were compiled to rate property and fire risk, and they carry pasted overlays recording changed uses, altered layouts, demolition and new construction. On this sheet, vacancy annotations are dated October 1968, and the latest dated correction, of September 1970, is a vacancy note at 131–132 High Holborn. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in August 1944, with a 1950 copyright date, and the key plans acquired with the group were corrected as late as October 1970 and March 1971. Other streets on the sheet include Bedford Place, Bloomsbury Way, Museum Street, Little Russell Street, Bury Place, New Oxford Street, Barter Street and Southampton Place.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371748249947,"sku":"P-9-001163","price":190.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-9-001163a_985d5ff7-641f-4b14-9fdf-ee93e58d5b7d.jpg?v=1792149130"},{"product_id":"goad-london-202-wc1-wc2-high-holborn-kingsway-southampton-row-1944-1970-map-p-9-001164","title":"Goad London 202—WC1\/WC2—High Holborn—Kingsway—Southampton Row 1944 (1970) map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eCharles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 202 [Holborn: High Holborn, Kingsway, Southampton Row and the Central School of Arts and Crafts]\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 202, covers Holborn where Kingsway meets High Holborn and Southampton Row (WC1 and WC2). The Central School of Arts and Crafts appears here under a name that was dropped in 1966, in the Southampton Row building that its successor, Central Saint Martins, left for King's Cross in 2011. Holy Trinity Church of 1909–11 had closed by 1991 and became the Aviation House offices behind its retained front, whereas the Church of St Anselm and St Cecilia remains a working parish. The Midland Bank is labelled with a name that HSBC retired in 1999, and the sheet also names the London Electricity Board substation and Holborn Underground Station. Goad's sheets were working plans for assessing property and fire risk, and they were kept current with pasted overlays recording changes of use, altered layouts, demolition and new building. On this sheet the latest dated corrections are vacancy annotations of September 1970. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in August 1944, with a 1950 copyright date, and it belongs to a group whose key plans were still being corrected in October 1970 and March 1971. Other streets on the sheet include Bloomsbury Square, Sicilian Avenue, Vernon Place, Fisher Street, Catton Street, Newton Street, Parker Street, Great Queen Street, Gate Street, New Turnstile and Remnant Street.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371748413787,"sku":"P-9-001164","price":190.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-9-001164a_3e0458b1-9c51-4b6b-a694-dcaaaa430616.jpg?v=1792149130"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/collections\/bloomsbury-square.oembed","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}