{"title":"Whitefriars Street","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"goad-london-31-ec4-bouverie-fleet-streets-hoare-s-bank-1954-1968-old-map-p-9-001199","title":"Goad London 31—EC4—Bouverie \u0026 Fleet Streets—Hoare's Bank 1954 (1968) old map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eCharles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 31 [Fleet Street, Bouverie Street, Whitefriars Street and Hoare's Bank]\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 31, covers Fleet Street and Whitefriars (EC4), showing the newspaper quarter while the presses still ran. At the time, linotype casting and newsprint stores made Fleet Street a place of manufacture. The News of the World left its premises on Bouverie Street for Wapping in January 1986, and Associated Newspapers' Northcliffe House works on Tudor Street is now offices behind its retained facade. Hoare's Bank, founded in 1672 and owned by Sir Richard Hoare's descendants, still trades from the Fleet Street banking house rebuilt in 1829. The Inner Temple Library, burnt out in May 1941, reopened in April 1958, and the sheet shows the United Society for Christian Literature nearby. The plan was drawn for insurers pricing fire risk and maintained with pasted slips recording changed uses, altered layouts, demolition and new building. The latest dated corrections are from January 1968, when the Fleet Street frontage of block 287 was marked vacant. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in February 1954, with a 1954 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 Whitefriars Street, Temple Lane, Lombard Lane, Pleydell Street, Serjeants' Inn and King's Bench Walk.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371757261147,"sku":"P-9-001199","price":220.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-9-001199a_cdae1f63-5e24-4041-b36a-c85f3ad5d1d5.jpg?v=1792149222"},{"product_id":"goad-london-32-ec4-fleet-street-st-bride-s-church-salisbury-sq-1954-1969-map-p-9-001200","title":"Goad London 32—EC4—Fleet Street—St Bride's Church—Salisbury Sq 1954 (1969) map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eCharles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 32 [Fleet Street, New Bridge Street, Salisbury Square and St Bride's Church]\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 32, covers Fleet Street and Salisbury Square (EC4), where printers and newspaper premises then clustered around St Bride's Church. The Press Association, Times Newspapers and the Observer, whose premises appear on the sheet, have all since left. St Bride's is shown in its restored, roofed form, which records the reconstruction rededicated in December 1957. The Foundation building, where the sheet records printing instruction and social facilities, survives as St Bride Foundation, whose library and print workshops preserve this vanished trade. Chronicle House has been demolished to make way for the new City law courts and police headquarters in Salisbury Square. The sheet also names the Unilever offices, the London Electricity Board substation and St Bridget's House. These working plans were made for property and fire-risk assessment, and they carried pasted overlays recording new uses, altered layouts, demolition and new building. The latest dated correction on this sheet is a vacancy note of September 1969, east of Hanging Sword Alley. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in February 1954, with a 1954 copyright date, and it belongs to a group whose key plans were still being corrected in October 1970 and March 1971. Other streets on the sheet include Ludgate Circus, New Bridge Street, Tudor Street, Whitefriars Street, St Bride's Avenue, Bride Lane, Dorset Rise, Hutton Street and Primrose Hill.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371757883739,"sku":"P-9-001200","price":220.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-9-001200a_cbc385c2-1a60-4925-99e4-7a26def17dde.jpg?v=1792149223"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/collections\/whitefriars-street.oembed","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}