{"title":"Gough Square","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"goad-london-34-ec4-fleet-street-fetter-lane-gough-sq-dr-johnson-1952-1969-map-p-9-001202","title":"Goad London 34—EC4—Fleet Street—Fetter Lane—Gough Sq—Dr Johnson 1952 (1969) map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eCharles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 34 [Fleet Street, Fetter Lane, New Street Square and Gough Square]\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 34, covers Fleet Street and Gough Square (EC4), where Dr Johnson's House then stood among the trades serving the newspapers. The house, at 17 Gough Square, is shown but not named on the sheet, and it has been a museum since 1914. Around New Street Square, the sheet shows bookbinding, paper storage and printing premises, revealing the support trades behind Fleet Street's newspapers. The square was rebuilt in 2008 and now holds professional-service offices, including Deloitte, with print manufacture replaced by office-based employment. In the sheet's day, Extel House housed the Exchange Telegraph news agency, which was founded in 1872. The sheet also names the Central London Institute, Newspaper House, Pemberton House, the Crane offices and Gough House. These working plans were compiled for property and fire-risk assessment, and they carried pasted overlays recording new uses, altered layouts, demolition and new building. The latest dated correction on this sheet is a large vacancy label of September 1969 in Crane Court. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in February 1952, with a 1952 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 Fetter Lane, New Fetter Lane, Great New Street, East Harding Street, West Harding Street and Pemberton Row.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371759784283,"sku":"P-9-001202","price":200.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-9-001202a_123d6b9b-a431-4db4-8a51-515398cc7997.jpg?v=1792090629"},{"product_id":"goad-london-35-ec4-fleet-street-daily-express-daily-telegraph-1940-1969-map-p-9-001203","title":"Goad London 35—EC4—Fleet Street—Daily Express—Daily Telegraph 1940 (1969) map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eCharles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 35 [Fleet Street, Shoe Lane, the Daily Express building and the new Daily Telegraph site]\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 35, covers Fleet Street and St Bride Street (EC4) and takes in two newspaper palaces. At the time, these were the Daily Telegraph premises, with its proposed new building site, and the Daily Express premises. Behind their frontages lay printing machine rooms and reel stores. The Telegraph left in 1987, and its site became Goldman Sachs' Peterborough Court headquarters in 1991 as newspaper manufacture gave way to banking. The Express, in its black-glass building of 1932, was the last paper printed in Fleet Street, in November 1989. The sheet also names Gordon House and Ludgate House. These working plans were made for property and fire-risk assessment, and they carried pasted overlays recording new uses, altered layouts, demolition and new building. The latest dated correction is the Daily Express reel-store and mezzanine development, labelled under construction in September 1969, which comes later than the January 1968 vacancy annotation in St Bride Street. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in February 1940, 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 Ludgate Circus, Farringdon Street, Stonecutter Street, Little New Street, Printers Street, New Street Hill, Shoe Lane and Gough Square.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371760537947,"sku":"P-9-001203","price":220.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-9-001203a.jpg?v=1792090636"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/collections\/gough-square.oembed","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}