Goad London 33—EC4/WC2—Fleet Street—Fetter & Chancery Lanes 1962 (1969) map
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Charles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 33 [Chancery Lane, Fleet Street, Fetter Lane and the Public Record Office]
Goad's fire insurance plan of London, sheet 33, covers Chancery Lane and the Public Record Office (EC4 and WC2). The Public Record Office, with its reading rooms and document storage, then dominated the block between Chancery Lane and Fetter Lane. Its records went to Kew, and since 2002 the building has been King's College London's Maughan Library, preserving a scholarly use as state records gave way to university study. The Bank of England Law Courts branch on Fleet Street closed in 1975 and has been The Old Bank of England pub since 1994, while the Law Society and St Dunstan-in-the-West remain. The sheet also names the Royal Insurance offices, Du Pont House and Rosebery House. Printers, bookbinders and law stationers around Carey Street, Bell Yard and Star Yard reveal the trades that supplied the legal quarter's paper-based work. The law remains here, but electronic filing at the Royal Courts of Justice has transferred part of that document traffic from printed bundles to digital files. These working plans were drawn for property and fire-risk assessment, and they carried pasted overlays recording new uses, altered layouts, demolition and new building. The latest dated correction here is a vacancy annotation of September 1969 beside St Dunstan-in-the-West. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in January 1962, with a 1962 copyright date, and the key plans acquired with it carry corrections as late as October 1970 and March 1971. Other streets on the sheet include Carey Street, Bell Yard, Star Yard, Chichester Rents, Breams Buildings and Clifford's Inn.
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Size 63 x 53 cm | 24.5 x 21.0 inches
Date Published: 1962 (1969)
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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