{"title":"Museum Street","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"goad-london-200-wc1-wc2-bloomsbury-british-museum-new-oxford-st-1940-1970-map-p-9-001162","title":"Goad London 200—WC1\/WC2—Bloomsbury—British Museum—New Oxford St 1940 (1970) map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eCharles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 200 [New Oxford Street, Shaftesbury Avenue, Bloomsbury Street and the British Museum]\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 200, covers Museum Street and Shaftesbury Avenue (WC1 and WC2), and it catches the Shaftesbury Theatre during the run of Hair. The show opened in September 1968, the night after stage censorship ended, and it was still running when the sheet received its last corrections. After the run, the theatre was threatened with demolition, but it was listed in 1974 and is still a working theatre. Elsewhere the sheet marks Cranstons Ivanhoe Hotel on Bloomsbury Street, which is still a hotel, and Bloomsbury Central Church, which is still in use. By contrast, Selkirk House and the Trust Houses offices, the hotel group's block of 1968, were demolished in 2025–26. The sheet also names the British Museum frontage on Great Russell Street, the Bloomsbury Dispensary and the Harris furniture and antique premises. Goad's plans were kept to assess property and fire risk, and they were updated with pasted slips recording changed uses, altered layouts, demolition and rebuilding. On this sheet the latest dated corrections are vacancy annotations of September 1970. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in August 1940, with a 1950 copyright date, and the key plans acquired with it carry corrections as late as October 1970 and March 1971. Other streets on the sheet include Little Russell Street, Streatham Street, Willoughby Street, New Oxford Street, Dyott Street, Bucknall Street, West Central Street and High Holborn.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371748184411,"sku":"P-9-001162","price":200.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-9-001162a_d9bfab5f-5893-46a6-8d32-d5c99f2140ce.jpg?v=1792149125"},{"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"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/collections\/museum-street.oembed","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}