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Goad London 214—W1/SW1—Piccadilly Circus—Shaftesbury Avenue 1950 (1970) map

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Charles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 214 [Piccadilly Circus, Shaftesbury Avenue, Coventry Street and the London Pavilion]


Goad's fire insurance plan of London, sheet 214, covers Piccadilly Circus and Shaftesbury Avenue (W1 and SW1), where the Lyric, Apollo, Piccadilly and Criterion Theatres all still play. The Lyric of 1888 is the avenue's oldest survivor. The London Pavilion, by then a cinema, closed in 1981 and was gutted in 1986 behind its façade of 1885, and it now holds a Zedwell hotel that opened in September 2025. On Great Windmill Street, the Cameo News Theatre closed in 1990 and is a restaurant today. At No. 41, the basement cinema-club label identifies the premises of the Scene, the mod club of 1963–66 where the Rolling Stones and the Who played. The Who appeared on 26 August 1964, during their brief spell as the High Numbers; the Scene itself had closed before the sheet's final revision. Behind the theatres, in the sheet's day, National Car Parks occupied valuable ground around Ham Yard, where the Ham Yard Hotel of 2014 brought accommodation, shops and restaurants, a striking change from vehicle storage to the visitor economy. Goad's working plans were made to assess property and fire risk, and they were kept current with pasted overlays recording new uses, altered layouts, demolition and rebuilding. The latest dated correction is October 1970, on a large overlay marking an area vacant. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in October 1950, with a 1950 copyright date, and the key plan acquired with this group records corrections to October 1970. Other streets on the sheet include Coventry Street, Piccadilly, Regent Street, Haymarket, Jermyn Street, Rupert Street, Sherwood Street, Archer Street, Denman Street and Oxendon Street.

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Goad London 213—W1—West End—Piccadilly Circus—Regent Street 1950 (1970) map
Goad London 214—W1/SW1—Piccadilly Circus—Shaftesbury Avenue 1950 (1970) map

Size 63 x 53 cm | 24.5 x 21.0 inches

Date Published: 1950 (1970)

October 1950 — resurveyed & reissued; copyright 1950. The latest explicitly dated correction we have identified on the sheet is October 1970. The key plan for Volume IX records corrections to October 1970.

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 IX. 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. Sheet 213 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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