Southwark & South Bank Charles Goad maps

Bankside’s power station, riverside wharves and printing works fill Charles Goad’s fire insurance maps of Southwark and the ...

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Bankside’s power station, riverside wharves and printing works fill Charles Goad’s fire insurance maps of Southwark and the South Bank. These original plans record London south of the river building by building, from Bankside Power Station, now Tate Modern, and the Royal Festival Hall to Waterloo Station, County Hall, the Old Vic and the Oxo Tower, and on through Borough High Street to the Elephant & Castle, Walworth Road and Doulton’s pottery on the Albert Embankment. Hospitals, almshouses and music halls stand among railway goods depots and riverside factories, while pasted corrections trace bomb damage, post-war rebuilding and the rise of the Shell Centre and the South Bank arts complex. Even MI6’s headquarters appears, labelled simply as offices. Sheets first printed in 1889 and corrected into 1971 show Southwark and Lambeth at the moment before regeneration transformed the riverside.

Bankside’s power station, riverside wharves and printing works fill Charles Goad’s fire insurance maps of Southwark and the South Bank. These original plans record London south of the river building by building, from Bankside Power Station, now Tate Modern, and the Royal Festival Hall to Waterloo Station, County Hall, the Old Vic and the Oxo Tower, and on through Borough High Street to the Elephant & Castle, Walworth Road and Doulton’s pottery on the Albert Embankment. Hospitals, almshouses and music halls stand among railway goods depots and riverside factories, while pasted corrections trace bomb damage, post-war rebuilding and the rise of the Shell Centre and the South Bank arts complex. Even MI6’s headquarters appears, labelled simply as offices. Sheets first printed in 1889 and corrected into 1971 show Southwark and Lambeth at the moment before regeneration transformed the riverside.

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