Goad London 226—W1/WC2—Soho—Cambridge Circus—Palace Theatre 1944 (1970) map
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Charles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 226 [Soho: Cambridge Circus, Shaftesbury Avenue, Old Compton Street and the Palace Theatre]
Goad's fire insurance plan of London, sheet 226, covers Soho from Old Compton Street to Cambridge Circus (W1 and WC2), the theatreland beside Chinatown. Collcutt's Palace Theatre of 1891 commands the Circus and has housed Harry Potter and the Cursed Child since 2016. On Old Compton Street, the Casino Theatre was a Cinerama house in the sheet's day, and it took back its original name, the Prince Edward, for the premiere of Evita in 1978. The Jacey Cinema on Charing Cross Road at Cambridge Circus, which by then was showing Continental films, closed in 1987 and became the Marquee Club's third home in 1988, hosting early appearances by Oasis and PJ Harvey before closing in the mid-1990s; it is now a pub. That musical phase lay ahead, while two folk venues were already operating nearby. The restaurant-and-clubs label at 49 Greek Street marks Les Cousins, the folk club which opened in 1965 and closed in April 1972, where Nick Drake, Bert Jansch, Paul Simon, John Martyn and Sandy Denny played; its booking diary records Van Morrison on 26 April 1966. At 27 Litchfield Street, the basement restaurant label identifies Bunjies, where Al Stewart held a residency in 1965 and which continued until 1999. No. 22 Frith Street housed John Logie Baird’s laboratory, where he demonstrated working television to members of the Royal Institution on 26 January 1926. Across the street, Ronnie Scott’s at No. 47 was the setting for Jimi Hendrix’s final public performance, when he joined Eric Burdon and War on 16 September 1970. Gerrard Street, home to a settled Chinese community by 1970, became the pedestrianised heart of Chinatown in the late 1980s, and the Fire Station on Shaftesbury Avenue was rebuilt alongside in 1983. Goad's plans were drawn up for fire-risk assessment, and they were maintained with pasted overlays as uses and buildings changed; the latest dated correction on this sheet is October 1970. 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 Manette Street, Bateman Street, Dean Street, Frith Street, Greek Street, Romilly Street, Moor Street, Gerrard Place, Newport Place and Litchfield Street.
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Size 63 x 53 cm | 24.5 x 21.0 inches
Date Published: 1944 (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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