West End Charles Goad maps
Theatres, department stores, tailoring workshops and Soho’s film businesses crowd Charles Goad’s fire insurance maps of Lond...
Read MoreTheatres, department stores, tailoring workshops and Soho’s film businesses crowd Charles Goad’s fire insurance maps of London’s West End. These original plans cover Mayfair, St James’s, Soho and Covent Garden, with adjoining Marylebone, Fitzrovia, Bloomsbury and Holborn. Individual buildings, occupiers and fire risks appear in extraordinary detail, from Bond Street and Savile Row to Oxford Street and the theatre district. Sheets printed from the 1880s and corrected into 1970 record changing trades, wartime damage and post-war redevelopment.
Theatres, department stores, tailoring workshops and Soho’s film businesses crowd Charles Goad’s fire insurance maps of London’s West End. These original plans cover Mayfair, St James’s, Soho and Covent Garden, with adjoining Marylebone, Fitzrovia, Bloomsbury and Holborn. Individual buildings, occupiers and fire risks appear in extraordinary detail, from Bond Street and Savile Row to Oxford Street and the theatre district. Sheets printed from the 1880s and corrected into 1970 record changing trades, wartime damage and post-war redevelopment.