Goad London 149—EC2—Shoreditch—Curtain Road—Great Eastern Street 1950 (1970) map
£180
SKU: P-9-001156
Charles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 149 [Shoreditch: Curtain Road, Great Eastern Street, Scrutton Street and Holywell Lane]
Goad's fire insurance plan of London, sheet 149, covers Great Eastern Street, Curtain Road and Holywell Lane (EC2) as they were when the district made, stocked and serviced goods, long before creative businesses and nightlife arrived. Its premises then included Brown Brothers' motor-trade warehouses, furniture and clothing factories, Brodies' ships' stores and the London Electricity Board's Hearn Street substation. The Security Express van park served the Shoreditch depot of the 1983 robbery, which was then Britain's biggest theft of cash. The London Midland railway viaduct lost its trains when Broad Street closed in 1986, and today it carries Village Underground's rooftop tube carriages above a venue that opened in 2007. In 2012 Hewett Street yielded the Curtain Theatre of 1577, Romeo and Juliet's playhouse. Kept current for fire-risk assessment with pasted overlays recording new uses and rebuilding, the sheet carries March 1970 vacancy annotations as its latest dated corrections. It was resurveyed and reissued in August 1950, 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 Leonard Street, Ravey Street, Phipp Street, Gatesborough Street, Luke Street, Christina Street, Scrutton Street and New Inn Broadway.
Size 63 x 53 cm | 24.5 x 21.0 inches
Date Published: 1950 (1970)
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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