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Goad London 225—W1—Soho Sq—Charing Cross Road—Oxford St—Astoria 1944 (1970) map

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Charles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 225 [Soho Square, Charing Cross Road, Oxford Street and the Astoria]


Goad's fire insurance plan of London, sheet 225, covers Soho Square, Charing Cross Road and St Giles Circus (W1 and WC2), the corner where the Astoria then stood. On this sheet the Astoria is still a cinema and dance hall, not yet the concert venue Londoners remember. Its later rock history included Nirvana on 3 December 1989 and Radiohead's filmed concert of 27 May 1994, released as Live at the Astoria. It closed in 2009 and was demolished for the Crossrail works at Tottenham Court Road, which cleared neighbouring premises and reshaped this corner of Soho. The rebuilt Underground station gained Elizabeth line platforms in May 2022. The Hospital for Women, the world's first gynaecological hospital, closed in 1989, while St Patrick's Church remains in use. The House of St Barnabas, the homelessness charity that had been at 1 Greek Street since 1862, closed in January 2024, and Nascreno House is also marked. Film developing and printing, recording studios, gramophone-record premises and music publishers reveal the production trades behind Soho's entertainment venues. That role continues in a different form at Soho Square Studios, whose work now includes sound for film, television and games, as well as podcast production. Goad's plans were compiled 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, November 1970, is a vacancy note on premises north of Falconberg Court and east of Falconberg Mews. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in October 1944, with a 1950 copyright date, and the key plan acquired with the group records corrections to October 1970. Other streets on the sheet include Oxford Street, Frith Street, Bateman Street, Sutton Row and Manette Street.

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Goad London 225—W1—Soho Sq—Charing Cross Road—Oxford St—Astoria 1944 (1970) map

Size 63 x 53 cm | 24.5 x 21.0 inches

Date Published: 1944 (1970)

October 1944 — resurveyed & reissued; copyright 1950. The latest explicitly dated correction we have identified on the sheet is November 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. Small marginal tears. 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 226 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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