Goad London 66—EC2/EC3—Bishopsgate—Gresham House—St Ethelburga's 1941 (1969) map
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Charles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 66 [Bishopsgate, Old Broad Street, Gresham House and St Ethelburga's Church]
Goad's fire insurance plan of London, sheet 66, covers Bishopsgate and Old Broad Street (EC2 and EC3) on the eve of the NatWest Tower. Gresham House, Palmerston House and the National Provincial Bank's Old Broad Street offices were cleared from 1970 for the tower, while the bank itself became National Westminster Bank on 1 January 1970. The tower was Britain's tallest building when it opened in 1981, and it is now Tower 42. St Ethelburga's Church, a medieval survivor of the Great Fire and the Blitz, was half destroyed by the IRA bomb of 24 April 1993 and reopened in 2002 as the Centre for Reconciliation and Peace. Hambros Bank, which was at 41 Bishopsgate until 1988, passed to Société Générale in 1998, and Barclays Bank and Kempson House are also named. The plans were drawn for fire-risk assessment, and they were kept current with pasted overlays recording new uses, altered layouts, demolition and rebuilding. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in August 1941, with a 1949 copyright date, and its latest dated correction is August 1969. Key plans acquired with the group carry corrections as late as October 1970 and March 1971. Other streets on the sheet include Wormwood Street, Camomile Street, Houndsditch, Outwich Street, St Helen's Place, Union Court and Clark's Place.
Size 63 x 53 cm | 24.5 x 21.0 inches
Date Published: 1941 (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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