{"title":"Great Castle Street","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"goad-london-229-w1-mayfair-oxford-circus-regent-oxford-streets-1952-1970-map-p-9-001098","title":"Goad London 229—W1—Mayfair—Oxford Circus—Regent \u0026 Oxford Streets 1952 (1970) map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eCharles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 229 [Oxford Circus, Oxford Street, Regent Street and British Home Stores]\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 229, covers Oxford Circus and Hanover Square (W1), and shows the London College of Fashion still on John Prince's Street beside the Circus. There it was close to the garment trade it served, before its move in September 2023 to the new cultural and educational district at East Bank, Stratford. British Home Stores' chain collapsed in 2016, while Regent Hall, the skating rink that William Booth bought in 1882, is still a Salvation Army centre. National Provincial Bank's name had merged into National Westminster Bank on 1 January 1970, before the final corrections were made. In October 2022 Hanover Square gained the Elizabeth line's Bond Street ticket hall. Goad's plans were compiled for property and fire-risk assessment and updated with pasted overlays recording changes of use, altered layouts, demolition and new building. The latest dated correction on this sheet is October 1970. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in September 1952, with a 1952 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, Regent Street, Hanover Street, Cavendish Square, Holles Street, Great Castle Street, Margaret Street, Princes Street, Harewood Place, Argyll Street and Little Argyll Street.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371695526235,"sku":"P-9-001098","price":200.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-9-001098a_129654b1-65d3-4dfe-b3ae-f02b33844f00.jpg?v=1792148987"},{"product_id":"goad-london-230-w1-marylebone-oxford-circus-regent-st-oxford-st-1952-1968-map-p-9-001099","title":"Goad London 230—W1—Marylebone—Oxford Circus—Regent St—Oxford St 1952 (1968) map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eCharles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 230 [Oxford Circus, Oxford Street, Regent Street and Peter Robinson]\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 230, covers Oxford Circus (W1), where Peter Robinson's department store then held the corner that Topshop's flagship later occupied. The flagship was there from 1994 until early 2021, and IKEA followed from 1 May 2025. That succession shows the changing forms of mass-market shopping, while the gown factories and cloth warehouses that then stood behind Oxford Street reveal its less visible manufacturing and wholesale economy. At 48 Margaret Street, however, the map's clothing-trade labels conceal the Speakeasy, the musicians' club of 1966–78 where the Jimi Hendrix Experience performed on 19 January 1967. Its address is identifiable, but the club itself is not named or recorded as such. C\u0026amp;A Modes, which had been in Britain since 1922, closed all 109 of its British stores in 2000–01, and the Midland Bank was renamed HSBC in June 1999. These working sheets were compiled to assess property and fire risk, and they were kept current with pasted overlays recording changes of use, altered layouts, demolition and new building. The latest dated correction identified here is a vacancy note behind 233–235 Oxford Street, dated November 1968. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in September 1952, with a 1952 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 Regent Street, Great Portland Street, Great Titchfield Street, Margaret Street, Great Castle Street, Market Place, Argyll Street, Little Argyll Street, Hills Place, Ramillies Street and Ramillies Place.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371695722843,"sku":"P-9-001099","price":200.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-9-001099a_022d8667-240d-422a-a7b0-b03b4dd17d0f.jpg?v=1792148988"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/collections\/great-castle-street.oembed","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}