City of London Charles Goad maps

Bank vaults, newspaper presses and riverside warehouses fill Charles Goad’s fire insurance maps of the City of London. These...

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Bank vaults, newspaper presses and riverside warehouses fill Charles Goad’s fire insurance maps of the City of London. These original plans record the Square Mile building by building, from St Paul’s, Fleet Street and Smithfield to the Bank, Liverpool Street and Aldgate. Livery halls and churches stand among commercial premises, while bomb-damaged plots and pasted corrections trace rebuilding and changing occupiers. Early- and mid-twentieth-century sheets, many updated into 1969–70, reveal the working City before today’s skyline.

Bank vaults, newspaper presses and riverside warehouses fill Charles Goad’s fire insurance maps of the City of London. These original plans record the Square Mile building by building, from St Paul’s, Fleet Street and Smithfield to the Bank, Liverpool Street and Aldgate. Livery halls and churches stand among commercial premises, while bomb-damaged plots and pasted corrections trace rebuilding and changing occupiers. Early- and mid-twentieth-century sheets, many updated into 1969–70, reveal the working City before today’s skyline.

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