{"title":"Wood Street","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"goad-london-15-ec2-cheapside-goldsmiths-hall-foster-lane-1958-1970-map-p-9-001185","title":"Goad London 15—EC2—Cheapside—Goldsmiths' Hall—Foster Lane 1958 (1970) map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eCharles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 15 [Cheapside, Gresham Street, Foster Lane and Goldsmiths' Hall]\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 15, covers Cheapside, Foster Lane and Goldsmiths' Hall (EC2). Hardwick's hall of 1835 includes working assay facilities as well as ceremonial rooms. The Assay Office has worked here since 1478, giving us the word hallmark, and today it keeps the testing and hallmarking of precious metals alive amid the surrounding office district. St Vedast Church was gutted in 1941 and restored from 1953, and Saddlers' Hall, destroyed in 1940, was rebuilt by 1958. St Peter Cheap churchyard, with its plane tree and its shops of 1687, survives at the Wood Street corner. The sheet also names Wax Chandlers' Hall, Cheapside House, and the M.O.W. and government offices with electronics laboratories and a computer centre. The plan was compiled for fire-risk assessment and kept current with pasted overlays recording changes of use, altered layouts, demolition and new building. Its latest dated correction is a basement and first-floor vacancy note at 11–12 Foster Lane, dated November 1970. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in December 1958, with a 1958 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 St Martin's-le-Grand, Gresham Street, Carey Lane, Gutter Lane and Goldsmith Street.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371754180955,"sku":"P-9-001185","price":190.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-9-001185a_386d62bf-7071-4833-99d1-3ef62fda8b1c.jpg?v=1792149186"},{"product_id":"goad-london-16-ec2-cheapside-wood-milk-gresham-street-sun-life-1958-1970-map-p-9-001186","title":"Goad London 16—EC2—Cheapside—Wood, Milk, Gresham Street—Sun Life 1958 (1970) map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eCharles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 16 [Cheapside, Milk Street, Wood Street and Gresham Street]\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 16, covers Cheapside and Milk Street (EC2), with the offices of the Sun Life Assurance Society as its centrepiece. Founded in 1810, the Society moved its head office to Bristol in 1976 and passed wholly to AXA in 2000. The sheet also names the Stock Exchange checking room, Lawrence House, Clements House and Mitre House. The quarter was devastated on 29 December 1940 and rebuilt after the war, and it has largely been rebuilt again. Today the north side of Russia Row and Trump Street lies under 30 Gresham Street, Land Securities' block of 2002–03, which was the largest speculative office scheme in the capital when it was built. The plan was drawn so that insurers could assess property and fire risk, and it was kept current with pasted slips recording changes of use, altered layouts, demolition and rebuilding. The latest dated corrections, from November 1970, include premises at 7 Milk Street, in block 177, marked vacant on the upper floors. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in December 1958, with a 1958 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 Wood Street, Gresham Street, Lawrence Lane and King Street.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371754246491,"sku":"P-9-001186","price":190.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-9-001186a_9a2b797e-70be-4207-8f7a-7dce1b5263d9.jpg?v=1792149186"},{"product_id":"goad-london-18-ec2-london-wall-aldersgate-wood-st-barbers-hall-1932-1959-map-p-9-001188","title":"Goad London 18—EC2—London Wall—Aldersgate—Wood St—Barbers' Hall 1932 (1959) map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eCharles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 18 [London Wall, Aldersgate Street, Wood Street and Gresham Street — obsolete copy]\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 18, covers London Wall and Aldersgate Street (EC2). This is the \"obsolete\" edition, which records the new London Wall road and car park under construction in November 1959 through an older warehouse district. The sheet shows Battersby's hat warehouse, cotton-yarn premises and a railway goods shed north of the new road. These details evoke the trading and distribution quarter that was then being swept away around Silver Street, Monkwell Street, Castle Street, Fell Street, Nicholl Square and Wood Street Square. Barbers' Hall, burnt out in 1940, reopened on Monkwell Square in 1969, and St Anne and St Agnes church is now the VOCES8 Centre. The sheet also names Haberdashers' Hall, the Metropolitan Telephone Exchange, the Nestle offices, St Mary Staining churchyard and Northern House. The plan was made for fire-risk assessment and updated with pasted overlays recording changes of use, altered layouts, demolition and new building. This sheet was reissued in November 1932, with a 1949 copyright date, and its latest dated correction is from November 1959. The replacement edition of November 1960, which shows larger office blocks, Lee House, Monkwell Square and the rebuilt Barbers' Hall, places the end of this sheet's regular updating at about 1960. Other streets on the sheet include St Martin's-le-Grand, Gresham Street, Wood Street, Oat Lane and Staining Lane.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371754344795,"sku":"P-9-001188","price":190.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-9-001188a_083aa15d-d503-4584-8210-7e9ba66f0067.jpg?v=1792149192"},{"product_id":"goad-london-18-ec2-london-wall-aldersgate-wood-st-barbers-hall-1960-1967-map-p-9-001189","title":"Goad London 18—EC2—London Wall—Aldersgate—Wood St—Barbers' Hall 1960 (1967) map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eCharles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 18 [London Wall, Aldersgate Street, Wood Street and Gresham Street — later copy]\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 18, covers London Wall and Monkwell Square (EC2) in the November 1960 reissue, which superseded the \"obsolete\" edition of November 1932. The sheet shows office blocks such as Lee House replacing dense warehouse plots, Monkwell Square sitting over a basement car park beside the rebuilt Barber Surgeons' Hall, and a site awaiting the future Plaisterers' Hall. Barber Surgeons' Hall opened in 1969 and Plaisterers' Hall in 1972, while Lee House gave way to Alban Gate in 1990–92. The sheet also names St Anne and St Agnes church, Haberdashers' Hall, the Metropolitan and Monarch Telephone Exchange, Garrard House and the remains of the old London wall. The plan was made for fire-risk assessment and updated with pasted slips recording changes of use, altered layouts, demolition and new building. Its latest dated correction is a proposal note of December 1967 on the London Wall frontage, between the Barber Surgeons' Hall plot and Lee House. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in November 1960, with a 1960 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 Aldersgate Street, St Martin's-le-Grand, Gresham Street, Wood Street, Noble Street, Oat Lane and Staining Lane.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371754410331,"sku":"P-9-001189","price":150.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-9-001189a_66296613-07bc-4f87-8e99-45192d471a3b.jpg?v=1792149196"},{"product_id":"goad-london-19-ec2-guildhall-aldermanbury-london-wall-wood-st-1961-1970-map-p-9-001190","title":"Goad London 19—EC2—Guildhall—Aldermanbury—London Wall—Wood St 1961 (1970) map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eCharles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 19 [Guildhall, Aldermanbury, London Wall and Gresham Street]\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 19, covers Guildhall and Aldermanbury (EC2). It records the Guildhall extension, the West Wing of 1970–75, at foundation stage in November 1970, beside new civic offices, library and museum arrangements and proposed raised pedestrian circulation. The Guildhall Museum merged into the Museum of London in 1976. St Alphage House and the National Cash Register offices belonged to the first generation of post-war London Wall development. St Alphage House was cleared from 2013, and its site is now London Wall Place, where offices and gardens are arranged around surviving fragments of the Roman wall and medieval church. The sheet also names St Lawrence Jewry, Brewers' Hall, the New Art Gallery, the City of London Police headquarters, Royex House, Gillett House and Barrington House. The plan was compiled for fire-risk assessment and kept current with pasted overlays recording changes of use, altered layouts, demolition and new building, and its latest dated correction is from November 1970. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in November 1961, with a 1961 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 Wood Street, Aldermanbury Square, Addle Street, Love Lane, Basinghall Street, Basinghall Avenue, Gresham Street, King Street and St Alphage Garden.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371754803547,"sku":"P-9-001190","price":220.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-9-001190a_ca20e39a-ef53-48ef-a515-7a4a1030fafe.jpg?v=1792149199"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/collections\/wood-street.oembed","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}