{"title":"North Road","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"plymouth-retrofuturistic-redevelopment-plan-abercrombie-watson-1944-old-map-p-7-028567","title":"Plymouth retrofuturistic redevelopment plan—Abercrombie \u0026 Watson 1944 old map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'City of Plymouth—New City Centre'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe centrepiece of Abercrombie and Paton Watson's Plan for Plymouth, this vivid map imagines a city of the future rising from the ruins of the 1941 Blitz. A grand garden axis runs from North Road station to the Hoe, crossed by broad shopping avenues, with civic and theatre, shopping and government office groups arranged around formal gardens and circular places. With its sweeping symmetry, roundabouts and parkland boulevards, the design has an unmistakably retro-futurist look: a 1940s vision of the city of tomorrow. It was one of the most radical of Britain's wartime reconstruction plans, and much of it was built: the grid of Royal Parade and Armada Way still defines central Plymouth, although the architecture changed and the old Guildhall survived. From the second edition of the plan, it is one of the most striking and decorative images of Britain's wartime vision of rebuilding.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371667640667,"sku":"P-7-028567","price":120.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-028567a_c27f0b92-8ceb-440c-b651-6a99305f1cde.jpg?v=1792148881"},{"product_id":"plymouth-traffic-centre-north-road-cobourg-st-reconstruction-plan-harvey-1944-p-7-028576","title":"Plymouth Traffic Centre—North Road \u0026 Cobourg St—reconstruction plan—Harvey 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'The Traffic Centre at North Road and Coburg Street'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePalm trees, gardens and a stately new station hotel turn a traffic junction into a grand civic gateway in J. D. M. Harvey's bird's-eye view of the proposed traffic centre at North Road and Cobourg Street, Plymouth. Buses and cars circle a landscaped square below flag-topped towers, with North Road, Sherwell and the Cobourg Street Schools labelled beyond and the inner ring road running out of the foreground. Reality was very different: the station was rebuilt with an office block in 1962, and the North Cross roundabout of the early 1970s cut it off from the city centre. A colourful and appealing perspective from A Plan for Plymouth, showing the gateway the city never got.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371670229339,"sku":"P-7-028576","price":23.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-028576a_0fc61aed-07d7-49a1-9c11-ecce505edf4a.jpg?v=1792148894"},{"product_id":"plymouth-bomb-damage-proposed-central-layout-abercrombie-watson-1944-map-p-7-028578","title":"Plymouth bomb damage \u0026 proposed central layout—Abercrombie \u0026 Watson 1944 map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Proposed central layout—Showing properties existing 1943'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe planners' new city centre is drawn in bold red over the old street plan of Plymouth in this dramatic map, so that you can see exactly which streets the reconstruction would sweep away. Orange marks the property destroyed or damaged in the Blitz of 1941, and a lighter mid-grey the older property judged obsolete; the printed key groups the two together as sites available for reconstruction, and the distinction follows the report's discussion of war-damaged and obsolete areas and the matching red and blue of its companion Derelict Areas map. Darker greys show the buildings still standing in 1943, and the palest tone sites already cleared. Across them run the new axis of Armada Way, Royal Parade and the ring roads, in formal geometric lines that ignore the medieval pattern beneath. It is the clearest single image of the scale of Plymouth's post-war rebuilding, and one of the most striking maps in Abercrombie and Paton Watson's Plan for Plymouth.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371670425947,"sku":"P-7-028578","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-028578a_5baec2cb-34b7-4ec9-9800-2c088a89f5e2.jpg?v=1792148897"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/collections\/north-road.oembed","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}