Goad London 200—WC1/WC2—Bloomsbury—British Museum—New Oxford St 1940 (1970) map
£200
SKU: P-9-001162
Charles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 200 [New Oxford Street, Shaftesbury Avenue, Bloomsbury Street and the British Museum]
Goad's fire insurance plan of London, sheet 200, covers Museum Street and Shaftesbury Avenue (WC1 and WC2), and it catches the Shaftesbury Theatre during the run of Hair. The show opened in September 1968, the night after stage censorship ended, and it was still running when the sheet received its last corrections. After the run, the theatre was threatened with demolition, but it was listed in 1974 and is still a working theatre. Elsewhere the sheet marks Cranstons Ivanhoe Hotel on Bloomsbury Street, which is still a hotel, and Bloomsbury Central Church, which is still in use. By contrast, Selkirk House and the Trust Houses offices, the hotel group's block of 1968, were demolished in 2025–26. The sheet also names the British Museum frontage on Great Russell Street, the Bloomsbury Dispensary and the Harris furniture and antique premises. Goad's plans were kept to assess property and fire risk, and they were updated with pasted slips recording changed uses, altered layouts, demolition and rebuilding. On this sheet the latest dated corrections are vacancy annotations of September 1970. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in August 1940, 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 Little Russell Street, Streatham Street, Willoughby Street, New Oxford Street, Dyott Street, Bucknall Street, West Central Street and High Holborn.
Size 63 x 53 cm | 24.5 x 21.0 inches
Date Published: 1940 (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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