{"title":"Old Compton Street","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"goad-london-219-w1-soho-wardour-berwick-old-compton-streets-1958-1970-map-p-9-001087","title":"Goad London 219—W1—Soho—Wardour, Berwick \u0026 Old Compton Streets 1958 (1970) map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eCharles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 219 [Soho: Wardour Street, Berwick Street, Old Compton Street and Shaftesbury Avenue]\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 219, covers Soho around Wardour Street and Berwick Street (W1). The film laboratories and studios, cutting rooms and photo-engraving premises it records make the work behind the entertainment industry tangible. Wardour Street was the centre of the British film trade through the twentieth century, but by the century's end the big companies had gone, leaving independent post-production houses. The sheet also explicitly names the Marquee Club at 90 Wardour Street, its home from 1964 to 1988. The Who began their Tuesday residency on 24 November 1964, Pink Floyd played the Spontaneous Underground from 13 March 1966, and Led Zeppelin appeared on 18 October 1968 while still billed as the Yardbirds; Jimi Hendrix and David Bowie also played here. The club was operating when the sheet was last corrected, and its site later became Soho Lofts. At 59 Old Compton Street, the club-and-restaurant label marks the 2i's Coffee Bar, where Tommy Steele, Cliff Richard and musicians who became the Shadows helped launch British rock 'n' roll. It operated from 1956 to 1970, closing in the year of the final revision. The Wardour Garage car park beside Richmond Buildings, operated by Parking Managements Ltd in the sheet's day, became the Soho Hotel of 2004, which has its restaurant entrance on Flaxman Court. In this way a service site was given over to visitor accommodation. The sheet also names the Eros Hotel, the Swiss Hotel and the Police Offices, while Berwick Street's market, founded in 1778, still fills the street. Goad's plans were drawn to assess property and fire risk, and they were kept current with pasted overlays recording new uses, altered layouts, demolition and rebuilding. On this sheet a vacancy annotation carries the latest date, October 1970. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in November 1958, with a 1958 copyright date, and the key plan acquired with this group records corrections to October 1970. Other streets on the sheet include Broadwick Street, Hopkins Street, Peter Street, Brewer Street, Old Compton Street, Great Windmill Street, Archer Street, Bourchier Street, Winnett Street, Rupert Street and Shaftesbury Avenue.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371691692379,"sku":"P-9-001087","price":230.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-9-001087a_4eba4540-afa7-4cb9-8c8a-823de2d11448.jpg?v=1792148976"},{"product_id":"goad-london-226-w1-wc2-soho-cambridge-circus-palace-theatre-1944-1970-map-p-9-001095","title":"Goad London 226—W1\/WC2—Soho—Cambridge Circus—Palace Theatre 1944 (1970) map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eCharles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 226 [Soho: Cambridge Circus, Shaftesbury Avenue, Old Compton Street and the Palace Theatre]\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 226, covers Soho from Old Compton Street to Cambridge Circus (W1 and WC2), the theatreland beside Chinatown. Collcutt's Palace Theatre of 1891 commands the Circus and has housed Harry Potter and the Cursed Child since 2016. On Old Compton Street, the Casino Theatre was a Cinerama house in the sheet's day, and it took back its original name, the Prince Edward, for the premiere of Evita in 1978. The Jacey Cinema on Charing Cross Road at Cambridge Circus, which by then was showing Continental films, closed in 1987 and became the Marquee Club's third home in 1988, hosting early appearances by Oasis and PJ Harvey before closing in the mid-1990s; it is now a pub. That musical phase lay ahead, while two folk venues were already operating nearby. The restaurant-and-clubs label at 49 Greek Street marks Les Cousins, the folk club which opened in 1965 and closed in April 1972, where Nick Drake, Bert Jansch, Paul Simon, John Martyn and Sandy Denny played; its booking diary records Van Morrison on 26 April 1966. At 27 Litchfield Street, the basement restaurant label identifies Bunjies, where Al Stewart held a residency in 1965 and which continued until 1999. No. 22 Frith Street housed John Logie Baird’s laboratory, where he demonstrated working television to members of the Royal Institution on 26 January 1926. Across the street, Ronnie Scott’s at No. 47 was the setting for Jimi Hendrix’s final public performance, when he joined Eric Burdon and War on 16 September 1970. Gerrard Street, home to a settled Chinese community by 1970, became the pedestrianised heart of Chinatown in the late 1980s, and the Fire Station on Shaftesbury Avenue was rebuilt alongside in 1983. Goad's plans were drawn up for fire-risk assessment, and they were maintained with pasted overlays as uses and buildings changed; the latest dated correction on this sheet is October 1970. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in October 1944, with a 1950 copyright date, and the key plan acquired with the group records corrections to October 1970. Other streets on the sheet include Manette Street, Bateman Street, Dean Street, Frith Street, Greek Street, Romilly Street, Moor Street, Gerrard Place, Newport Place and Litchfield Street.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371692806491,"sku":"P-9-001095","price":230.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-9-001095a_138e0146-0eb2-4107-8c3d-a116694f238b.jpg?v=1792148987"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/collections\/old-compton-street.oembed","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}