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Goad London 232—W1—Fitzrovia—Newman, Berners & Oxford Streets 1956 (1970) map

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Charles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 232 [Fitzrovia: Oxford Street, Berners Street, Newman Street and Rathbone Place]


Goad's fire insurance plan of London, sheet 232, covers Fitzrovia, Berners Street and Rathbone Place (W1), where the Post Office's Western District sorting and delivery office then filled a substantial block off Rathbone Place. The sorting office has since been replaced by Rathbone Square, completed in 2017, whose offices, homes and shops now stand around a garden. This marks a clear change from handling mail to commercial and residential use. The basement club marked at 100–102 Oxford Street is the 100 Club, which was already operating and still hosts live music today. Its Punk Special of 20–21 September 1976 came after the map's final revision, bringing the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Damned, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Buzzcocks, Subway Sect, Stinky Toys and Chris Spedding with the Vibrators to the same small stage. The Berners Hotel reopened in September 2013 as The London Edition. The Middlesex Hospital Nurses' Home served a hospital that closed in 2005 and whose site is now Fitzroy Place. The nurses' home shown here survives as York House, converted into flats in 1997. The North Thames Gas Board was absorbed into the British Gas Corporation in 1973, and the sheet also names the International Business Machines school and offices and the National Society for Handicapped Children. Clothing factories and gown, knitwear, wool and leather premises around Newman Street, Berners Street and Eastcastle Street reveal Fitzrovia's concentration of garment production and wholesale trade. Fashion remains visible in Eastcastle Street's shops, including Folk, but these now sit within a district also known for design, advertising and digital media. Goad's plans were produced to assess property and fire risk, and they were revised with pasted overlays recording changes of use, altered layouts, demolition and new building. The latest dated corrections on this sheet are vacancy annotations of October 1970. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in October 1956, with a 1956 copyright date, and a key plan covering this area, acquired with the same group of maps, records corrections to October 1970. Other streets on the sheet include Oxford Street, Newman Street, Eastcastle Street, Charlotte Street and Percy Street.

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Goad London 232—W1—Fitzrovia—Newman, Berners & Oxford Streets 1956 (1970) map

Size 63 x 53 cm | 24.5 x 21.0 inches

Date Published: 1956 (1970)

October 1956 — resurveyed & reissued; copyright 1956. 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. Short split near the top of the binding-tab junction. 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 231 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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