{"title":"Ironmonger Passage","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"goad-london-140-ec1-finsbury-bath-old-streets-bunhill-row-1948-1970-map-p-9-001146","title":"Goad London 140—EC1—Finsbury—Bath \u0026 Old Streets—Bunhill Row 1948 (1970) map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eCharles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 140 [Old Street, Bunhill Row, Bath Street and Bartholomew 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 140, covers Old Street, Bartholomew Square and Bunhill Row (EC1), a quarter whose names carry two lost landmarks. Bath Street and Peerless Street recall Peerless Pool, London's first outdoor public swimming bath, which was opened by the jeweller William Kemp in 1743 and built over after 1850. Quaker Court, meanwhile, recalls the Quaker burial ground off Banner Street. The ground was used from 1661 to 1855 and has held George Fox's grave since 1691. Its Memorial Buildings were largely destroyed in 1944, and in 1965 the ground was laid out within the GLC's Banner Street estate as today's Quaker Gardens. The sheet also names Godfrey House, Paterson Court and Newland Court, together with a child welfare centre and a surgical-instrument works. Typesetters, printers, clothing factories and engravers around Old Street, Banner Street and Bartholomew Square reveal a wider concentration of skilled manufacture. The later growth of design studios and digital businesses across Clerkenwell and Old Street marks a change from producing physical goods towards designing products and handling information. Compiled so that insurers could rate property and fire risk, the plan carries pasted slips recording changed uses, new layouts, demolition and building, and its latest dated correction is March 1970. Resurveyed and reissued in June 1948, with a 1950 copyright date, the sheet belongs to a group whose key plans were still being corrected in October 1970 and March 1971. Other streets on the sheet include Mitchell Street, Lizard Street, Caslon Street and Leage Street.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371737174363,"sku":"P-9-001146","price":170.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-9-001146a_980ad8bc-cee4-4d48-b660-62ed89a50587.jpg?v=1792149085"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/collections\/ironmonger-passage.oembed","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}