Goad London 11—EC4—Cheapside—Bank of England offices—New Change 1956 (c1970) map

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SKU: P-9-001179

Charles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 11 [Cheapside, New Change, Watling Street and the Bank of England offices — later copy]


Goad's fire insurance plan of London, sheet 11, covers Cheapside and New Change (EC4) and shows the Bank of England's extensive New Change offices filling the One New Change block. The Bank's offices came down in 2007, and Jean Nouvel's replacement, opened in 2010, combines offices with shops, restaurants and a public rooftop terrace beside St Paul's. The St Paul's Cathedral Choir School of 1967 incorporates the surviving Wren tower of St Augustine's. The Royal Exchange Assurance offices on the sheet recall an insurer of 1720 that was absorbed into Guardian Royal Exchange in 1968 and into AXA in 1999. The sheet also names Gateway House, Wiggins Teape and Lloyds Bank. This reissue supersedes the edition of November 1933, marked "obsolete", which records Bank of England buildings and Gateway House under construction in November 1955. Here the sheet shows the consolidated complex and altered streets in place of the earlier warehouses. The plan was produced to assess fire risk, and it carries pasted revisions recording changes of use, altered layouts, demolition and new building, although no individual correction carries a date. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in November 1956, with a 1956 copyright date, and it belongs to a group whose key plans were still being corrected in October 1970 and March 1971. Other streets on the sheet include Bread Street, Watling Street and Cannon Street.

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Size 63 x 53 cm | 24.5 x 21.0 inches

Date Published: 1956 (c1970)

November 1956 (resurveyed & reissued); copyright 1956. We have identified no explicitly dated later corrections on this sheet; pasted revisions are present. Key plans for other volumes acquired with this sheet record corrections up to March 1971, suggesting common working use until about that date.

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 I. 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. Adhesive staining at the right side. Please check the scan for any blemishes prior to making your purchase. The reverse side is plain, with nothing printed on it.

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