Goad London 126—EC1—Clerkenwell—Hatton Garden—Saffron Hill 1956 (1970) old map

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Charles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 126 [Hatton Garden, Farringdon Road, Clerkenwell Road and Saffron Hill]


Goad's fire insurance plan of London, sheet 126, covers Hatton Garden and Saffron Hill (EC1), London's jewellery quarter. Johnson Matthey, refiners to the Bank of England, had been here since 1822 before moving its head office out in 1975 and selling up in 1998. Yet the trade stayed, and nearly 300 jewellery businesses work here today. When the sheet was in use, Omega watch workshops sat among substantial printing and engraving premises, including the Sun Engraving Company and the Bradbury Agnew printing works. Their neighbours then also included the Cable and Wireless workshops and laboratories and the post office in Global House. On Saffron Hill a 1930s print works became the Ziggurat, which has been flats since 1997, and its industrial floor space turned into sought-after homes, while Leather Lane still keeps its market. The plans were made to assess property and fire risk, and they were kept current with pasted slips recording new uses, altered layouts, demolition and rebuilding. The last dated correction on this sheet, from March 1970, notes a vacancy at 14 Hatton Wall. Resurveyed and reissued in June 1956, with a 1956 copyright date, the sheet belongs to a group whose key plans were still being corrected in October 1970 and March 1971. Other streets on the sheet include Clerkenwell Road, Farringdon Road, St Cross Street, Saffron Street and Kirby Street.

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Size 63 x 53 cm | 24.5 x 21.0 inches

Date Published: 1956 (1970)

June 1956 (resurveyed & reissued); copyright 1956. The latest explicitly dated correction we have identified on the sheet is March 1970. Key plans for other volumes acquired with this sheet record corrections up to March 1971, suggesting common working use until about that date.

Type: Vintage hand-coloured fire-insurance plan with later overpasted amendments

Author: Goad, Charles & Co

Publication: Charles Goad Fire Insurance Maps

Insurance Plan of London, Volume VI. Charles E. Goad, London.

Condition: Good |

Good; suitable for framing. A working sheet from one of the bound Goad volumes historically kept by fire-insurance offices, updated over decades with pasted correction slips. The build-up of correction slips has left the sheet stiff and gently undulating rather than flat, a characteristic of these working plans. There is age toning and light surface soiling, consistent with its long use as a working map. Please check the scan for any blemishes prior to making your purchase. Please contact us if you would like to arrange to view this map. The reverse side is plain, with nothing printed on it.

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