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Goad London 142—EC2/EC1—Wesley's Chapel—Finsbury Square—City Rd 1922 (1954) map

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Charles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 142 [City Road, Finsbury Square, Worship Street and Wesley's Chapel — obsolete copy]


Goad's fire insurance plan of London, sheet 142, covers Wesley's Chapel, Finsbury Square and City Road (EC2 and EC1) in the edition marked "obsolete". On a printed base headed July 1922, with a 1950 copyright date, this edition preserves smaller industrial plots and the works of the Ardath Tobacco Company, makers of State Express 555 cigarettes. Among its post-war amendments is a British Road Services garage. The surrounding printing, furniture, tobacco, paper and plastics premises reveal a broader manufacturing and warehousing district beyond Ardath's works. The later shift to offices and car parking changed the character of whole groups of small industrial plots, as the replacement edition described below makes clear. Wesley's Chapel of 1778 is still a working church, with Wesley's house and grave. The sheet also names Royal London House, Essex County Council offices and the City of London Territorial Regiment headquarters. It catches renamings in progress too, as Paradise Street became Clere Street, Castle Street became Epworth Street and Hill Street became Bonhill Street. Kept by insurers rating property and fire risk, the sheet carries pasted overlays recording changes of use, altered layouts, demolition and new building, and vacancy notes of June 1954 are its latest dated correction. The replacement edition, reissued in June 1956, reorganised these blocks as larger offices and car parking, with Standard House and changed uses on the former tobacco site. That reissue ended this sheet's regular updating in about 1956. Other streets on the sheet include Tabernacle Street, Paul Street, Worship Street, Wilson Street, Christopher Street and Platina Street.

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Goad London 142—EC2/EC1—Wesley's Chapel—Finsbury Square—City Rd 1922 (1954) map

Size 63 x 53 cm | 24.5 x 21.0 inches

Date Published: 1922 (1954)

July 1922 (printed base heading); copyright 1950. The latest explicitly dated correction we have identified on the sheet is June 1954. The replacement sheet was reissued in 1956, suggesting regular updating of this predecessor ceased around then. 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. Edge tears and small losses; the binding holes are torn through to the edge. A large pasted OBSOLETE label crosses the centre of the map. Size excludes the tab at the side. Please check the scan for any blemishes prior to making your purchase. Sheet 141 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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