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Goad London 132—EC1—Clerkenwell—St John's Gate—St John's Square 1936 (1970) map

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Charles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 132 [Clerkenwell Road, St John Street, St John's Square and St John's Gate]


Goad's fire insurance plan of London, sheet 132, covers St John's Square and Clerkenwell (EC1), with St John's Gate, the priory gatehouse of 1504, at its centre. The Gate has been the headquarters of the Order of St John since the 1870s. It holds the Order's museum, which was renovated in 2010, while the St John Ambulance Brigade headquarters has been rebuilt on St John's Lane. St John's Church was burnt out in May 1941 and rebuilt by 1958 over its twelfth-century crypt, and it keeps the Cloister Gardens from that restoration. Nearby, the sheet records Unilever's maintenance works, GPO engineers' offices, lift engineers, printers and non-ferrous-metal storage, revealing what was then a practical industrial setting. Since the 1980s that setting has turned to offices, design studios and showrooms, a change of work in a district long known for skilled trades. The plans were compiled to assess fire risk, and they carry pasted slips recording new uses, altered layouts, demolition and rebuilding. The last dated correction on this sheet is March 1970. The sheet was reissued in July 1936, with a 1950 copyright date, and it belongs to a group whose key plans were still being corrected in October 1970 and March 1971. Other streets on the sheet include Clerkenwell Green, Aylesbury Street, Clerkenwell Road, St John Street, Britton Street, Albemarle Way, Briset Street and Great Sutton Street.

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Goad London 132—EC1—Clerkenwell—St John's Gate—St John's Square 1936 (1970) map

Size 63 x 53 cm | 24.5 x 21.0 inches

Date Published: 1936 (1970)

July 1936 (reissue); copyright 1950. 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. Small marginal tears; the binding holes are torn through to the outer edge. Size excludes the tab at the side. 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. Sheet 131 is printed on the reverse side. Each map is listed as a separate product, but the two maps share a single sheet, so whichever you buy, you receive both. If both maps are ordered together, we will send the sheet and refund the second purchase in full.

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