Goad London 11—EC4—Cheapside—Bank of England site—Watling Street 1933 (1955) map
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Charles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 11 [Cheapside, Friday Street, Watling Street and the Bank of England building site — obsolete copy]
Goad's fire insurance plan of London, sheet 11, covers Cheapside and Old Change (EC4) in the edition marked "obsolete", and it catches this ground in the midst of change. Beneath the clearance notices, the textile and clothing warehouses on the sheet preserve the trading character of Old Change and Friday Street. They were replaced by the Bank of England complex in a shift from merchandise to offices. That complex has itself gone, demolished in 2007 for One New Change, so this ground has been cleared twice over. The Church of St Augustine with St Faith was bombed in 1941 and never rebuilt, but its Wren tower survives in the St Paul's Cathedral Choir School of 1967. The sheet also names St Matthew's Churchyard, the Sun Life Assurance Society offices and the Information Bureau. It records the cleared Bank of England site under construction and Gateway House being built, while the replacement edition maps the consolidated New Change complex over these streets and plots. The plan was made to assess fire risk, and it carries pasted overlays recording new uses, altered layouts and rebuilding. The sheet was reissued in November 1933, with a 1949 copyright date. Its latest dated correction is November 1955, and the replacement's reissue in November 1956 places the end of its regular updating at about 1956. Other streets on the sheet include Bread Street, Watling Street and Cannon Street.
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Size 63 x 53 cm | 24.5 x 21.0 inches
Date Published: 1933 (1955)
Type: Vintage hand-coloured fire-insurance plan with later overpasted amendments
Author: Goad, Charles & Co
Publication: Charles Goad Fire Insurance Maps
Condition: Good |
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