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Goad London 16—EC2—Cheapside—Wood, Milk, Gresham Street—Sun Life 1958 (1970) map

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SKU: P-9-001186

Charles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 16 [Cheapside, Milk Street, Wood Street and Gresham Street]


Goad's fire insurance plan of London, sheet 16, covers Cheapside and Milk Street (EC2), with the offices of the Sun Life Assurance Society as its centrepiece. Founded in 1810, the Society moved its head office to Bristol in 1976 and passed wholly to AXA in 2000. The sheet also names the Stock Exchange checking room, Lawrence House, Clements House and Mitre House. The quarter was devastated on 29 December 1940 and rebuilt after the war, and it has largely been rebuilt again. Today the north side of Russia Row and Trump Street lies under 30 Gresham Street, Land Securities' block of 2002–03, which was the largest speculative office scheme in the capital when it was built. The plan was drawn so that insurers could assess property and fire risk, and it was kept current with pasted slips recording changes of use, altered layouts, demolition and rebuilding. The latest dated corrections, from November 1970, include premises at 7 Milk Street, in block 177, marked vacant on the upper floors. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in December 1958, with a 1958 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 Wood Street, Gresham Street, Lawrence Lane and King Street.

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Goad London 16—EC2—Cheapside—Wood, Milk, Gresham Street—Sun Life 1958 (1970) map

Size 63 x 53 cm | 24.5 x 21.0 inches

Date Published: 1958 (1970)

December 1958 (resurveyed & reissued); copyright 1958. The latest explicitly dated correction we have identified on the sheet is November 1970. Premises at 58–60 Milk Street, block 177, marked vacant November 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 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. Please check the scan for any blemishes prior to making your purchase. Please contact us if you would like to arrange to view this map. Sheet 15 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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