Goad London 288—SE17—Walworth Road—Town Hall—Library—Coal depot 1901 (c1971) map

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Charles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 288 [Walworth Road, railway coal depot, Southwark municipal offices and Southwark Central Library]


Goad's fire insurance plan of London, sheet 288, covers Walworth Road (SE17) between the municipal buildings and a railway coal depot. The Southwark municipal offices shown here then occupied the former Newington Vestry Hall, which opened in 1865. Together with Southwark Central Library, that building forms what is now Walworth Town Hall. The town hall was badly damaged by a roof fire in March 2013, and it reopened at the turn of 2025 as workspace, a community centre and a café. Nearby, the sheet shows the Southwark Health Services Department, the Southern Region railway coal depot, the G.P.O. sorting office, cold stores, the Labour Hall and the Browning Settlement. Coal storage, sausage and cooked-meat manufacture, coachbuilding and vehicle repairs together reveal the businesses that kept the city supplied with fuel, food and transport. The South Central East and West housing developments subsequently introduced a substantial residential use along this working railway corridor. The settlement was founded in 1895, and its campaign helped win old-age pensions in 1908. Elsewhere, the sheet shows a former chapel plot that had become motor premises and cleared ground. These fire-risk plans took pasted overlays recording changes of use, demolition and rebuilding. The printed base heading is dated June 1901, with a 1952 copyright date. No correction carries a date, but the municipal-office label names the London Borough of Southwark, which was formed in 1965, so that amendment dates from 1965 or later. A key plan acquired with the group records corrections to March 1971. Other streets on the sheet include Steedman Street, Crampton Street, Wansey Street, Larcom Street, Ethel Street, Amelia Street, Manor Place, Browning Street and Colworth Grove.

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Size 63 x 53 cm | 24.5 x 21.0 inches

Date Published: 1901 (c1971)

June 1901 (base plan); copyright 1952. We have identified no explicitly dated later corrections on this sheet. The London Borough of Southwark municipal-office label suggests an amended state of 1965 or later. The key plan for Volume X records corrections to March 1971.

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 X. 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. Sheet 287 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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