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Goad London 127—EC1—Clerkenwell Green—Booth's Gin—Turnmill St 1942 (1970) map

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SKU: P-9-001135

Charles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 127 [Clerkenwell Road, Clerkenwell Green, Turnmill Street and Booth's Gin Distillery]


Goad's fire insurance plan of London, sheet 127, covers Clerkenwell Green and Turnmill Street (EC1). The sheet shows Booth's distillery and the Tanqueray Gordon & Co. bonded warehouse, revealing what was then a centre of spirits production and storage beside the Metropolitan Railway. The distillery has gone, and its Turnmill Street offices came down in 1971, although the decorated façade was re-erected at 24 Britton Street in 1974–7. A former Booth's warehouse on the Clerkenwell Road corner, still shown here as bonded warehousing, later became the Turnmills nightclub. The Chemical Brothers were residents during its Heavenly years, and they and Fatboy Slim returned on 22 March 2008 during its closing weekend. The club closed in 2008 and the warehouse was replaced by offices. The Farringdon Street and High Holborn Station approaches shown on the sheet served the 1863 terminus of the world's first underground railway, which has been an Elizabeth line interchange since May 2022. St John's Public Gardens also appears on the sheet. The plans were drawn up for fire-risk assessment, and they carry pasted overlays recording new uses, altered layouts, demolition and rebuilding. The last dated correction on this sheet is March 1970. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in July 1942, with a 1950 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 Clerkenwell Road, Farringdon Road and Benjamin Street.

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Goad London 127—EC1—Clerkenwell Green—Booth's Gin—Turnmill St 1942 (1970) map

Size 63 x 53 cm | 24.5 x 21.0 inches

Date Published: 1942 (1970)

July 1942 (resurveyed & reissued); copyright 1950. The latest explicitly dated correction we have identified on the sheet is March 1970. 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 VI. 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 128 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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