Goad London 215—W1/WC2—Soho—Leicester Sq—Chinatown—Gerrard St 1954 (1970) map
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Charles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 215 [Leicester Square, Wardour Street, Gerrard Street (Chinatown) and the Empire Theatre]
Goad's fire insurance plan of London, sheet 215, covers Leicester Square and Chinatown (W1 and WC2), where Gerrard Street was already the heart of a Chinese community by 1970. The street was pedestrianised and given Chinese gates in the late 1980s. The Swiss Centre on the corner of Leicester Square and Wardour Street, a post-war landmark of 1966, was added to the sheet by correction. It was demolished in 2008 for the W London hotel development, which opened in 2011. The Empire Theatre, a cinema since 1928, and the Prince of Wales Theatre of 1937 both survive, and the Telephone Exchange is also named. At 33–37 Wardour Street, the basement club label marks the former Flamingo, whose celebrated 1957–67 period included Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames and the Jimi Hendrix Experience on 4 February 1967. By the final revision it had passed into other club identities, although basement club use remained on the map. When the square was remodelled in 2012, the Shakespeare Fountain of 1874 alone was kept. Goad's plans were drawn to assess property and fire risk, and they were corrected with pasted overlays recording new uses, altered layouts, demolition and rebuilding. Vacancy annotations among these overlays are dated October 1970, which is the latest date on the sheet. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in October 1954, with a 1954 copyright date, and the key plan acquired with this group records corrections to October 1970. Other streets on the sheet include Shaftesbury Avenue, Coventry Street, New Coventry Street, Lisle Street, Rupert Street, Macclesfield Street, Leicester Street, Whitcomb Street, Oxendon Street and Panton Street.
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Size 63 x 53 cm | 24.5 x 21.0 inches
Date Published: 1954 (1970)
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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