Goad London 223B—W1—Soho—Noel, Berwick, Wardour & Oxford Streets 1960 (1970) map
£200
SKU: P-9-001092
Charles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 223B [Soho: Oxford Street, Berwick Street, Wardour Street and Noel Street]
Goad's fire insurance plan of London, sheet 223B, covers Soho's Oxford Street, Poland Street, Wardour Street and Berwick Street (W1), and it records the working Soho of rag trade and film. The sheet shows clothing factories and film vaults beside the Amalgamated Dental Company's dental-materials factory, so garments, film and specialist medical supplies all lay within a few blocks. Together they formed a productive economy far broader than today's shopping-and-restaurant Soho. Wardour Street, then the British film industry's headquarters street, has since lost its big companies, leaving post-production houses behind. Berwick Street market was founded in 1778 and still trades, and the street itself appeared on the cover of Oasis's (What's the Story) Morning Glory? in 1995. GPO offices and Waverley House are also marked. Goad's plans were kept for assessing property and fire risk, and they were amended with pasted overlays recording changes of use, altered layouts, demolition and new building. The latest dated correction, October 1970, records a building under construction at 10–11 D'Arblay Street, with gowns premises on the basement and first floor and flats above, showing new homes being fitted into the commercial district. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in November 1960, with a 1960 copyright date, and the key plan acquired with the group records corrections to October 1970. Other streets on the sheet include Noel Street, Livonia Street and Broadwick Street.
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Size 63 x 53 cm | 24.5 x 21.0 inches
Date Published: 1960 (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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