{"title":"Eastcastle Street","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"goad-london-231-w1-fitzrovia-wells-oxford-streets-all-saints-1956-1970-map-p-9-001100","title":"Goad London 231—W1—Fitzrovia—Wells \u0026 Oxford Streets—All Saints 1956 (1970) map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eCharles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 231 [Fitzrovia: Oxford Street, Wells Street, All Saints Margaret Street and Bourne \u0026amp; Hollingsworth]\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 231, covers Fitzrovia, Oxford Street and All Saints Margaret Street (W1), where gown and costume factories then crowded the streets behind the department stores, particularly around Margaret Street and Eastcastle Street. The sheet is a revealing record of the West End clothing trade of its day, with shops below and workrooms above. All Saints, Butterfield's Grade I masterpiece, was consecrated in 1859 and remains an Anglo-Catholic church. Bourne \u0026amp; Hollingsworth, which had been on the Berners Street corner since 1902, closed in 1983 and became the Plaza, and the building has been Next's flagship since 2018. Waring \u0026amp; Gillow's building of 1906 survives today as shops with offices above, and it is Grade II listed. The sheet also names F. W. Woolworth and the Polytechnic School of Management Studies, which was part of what is now the University of Westminster. Goad's plans were made for assessing property and fire risk, and they were corrected with pasted overlays recording new uses, altered layouts, demolition and rebuilding. The latest dated correction on this sheet is October 1970. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in October 1956, with a 1956 copyright date, and a key plan covering this area, acquired with the same group of maps, records corrections to October 1970. Other streets on the sheet include Great Titchfield Street, Mortimer Street, Wells Street and Winsley Street.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371696607579,"sku":"P-9-001100","price":180.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-9-001100a_1d1a34b7-9d5b-4825-afc5-48eae2e2bd6f.jpg?v=1792148988"},{"product_id":"goad-london-232-w1-fitzrovia-newman-berners-oxford-streets-1956-1970-map-p-9-001101","title":"Goad London 232—W1—Fitzrovia—Newman, Berners \u0026 Oxford Streets 1956 (1970) map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eCharles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 232 [Fitzrovia: Oxford Street, Berners Street, Newman Street and Rathbone Place]\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 232, covers Fitzrovia, Berners Street and Rathbone Place (W1), where the Post Office's Western District sorting and delivery office then filled a substantial block off Rathbone Place. The sorting office has since been replaced by Rathbone Square, completed in 2017, whose offices, homes and shops now stand around a garden. This marks a clear change from handling mail to commercial and residential use. The basement club marked at 100–102 Oxford Street is the 100 Club, which was already operating and still hosts live music today. Its Punk Special of 20–21 September 1976 came after the map's final revision, bringing the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Damned, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Buzzcocks, Subway Sect, Stinky Toys and Chris Spedding with the Vibrators to the same small stage. The Berners Hotel reopened in September 2013 as The London Edition. The Middlesex Hospital Nurses' Home served a hospital that closed in 2005 and whose site is now Fitzroy Place. The nurses' home shown here survives as York House, converted into flats in 1997. The North Thames Gas Board was absorbed into the British Gas Corporation in 1973, and the sheet also names the International Business Machines school and offices and the National Society for Handicapped Children. Clothing factories and gown, knitwear, wool and leather premises around Newman Street, Berners Street and Eastcastle Street reveal Fitzrovia's concentration of garment production and wholesale trade. Fashion remains visible in Eastcastle Street's shops, including Folk, but these now sit within a district also known for design, advertising and digital media. Goad's plans were produced to assess property and fire risk, and they were revised with pasted overlays recording changes of use, altered layouts, demolition and new building. The latest dated corrections on this sheet are vacancy annotations of October 1970. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in October 1956, with a 1956 copyright date, and a key plan covering this area, acquired with the same group of maps, records corrections to October 1970. Other streets on the sheet include Oxford Street, Newman Street, Eastcastle Street, Charlotte Street and Percy Street.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371697525083,"sku":"P-9-001101","price":170.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-9-001101a_bac18f12-e5d5-4d89-b1e6-6a1ceba01a08.jpg?v=1792148990"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/collections\/eastcastle-street.oembed","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}