Goad London 231—W1—Fitzrovia—Wells & Oxford Streets—All Saints 1956 (1970) map
£180
SKU: P-9-001100
Charles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 231 [Fitzrovia: Oxford Street, Wells Street, All Saints Margaret Street and Bourne & Hollingsworth]
Goad's fire insurance plan of London, sheet 231, covers Fitzrovia, Oxford Street and All Saints Margaret Street (W1), where gown and costume factories then crowded the streets behind the department stores, particularly around Margaret Street and Eastcastle Street. The sheet is a revealing record of the West End clothing trade of its day, with shops below and workrooms above. All Saints, Butterfield's Grade I masterpiece, was consecrated in 1859 and remains an Anglo-Catholic church. Bourne & Hollingsworth, which had been on the Berners Street corner since 1902, closed in 1983 and became the Plaza, and the building has been Next's flagship since 2018. Waring & Gillow's building of 1906 survives today as shops with offices above, and it is Grade II listed. The sheet also names F. W. Woolworth and the Polytechnic School of Management Studies, which was part of what is now the University of Westminster. Goad's plans were made for assessing property and fire risk, and they were corrected with pasted overlays recording new uses, altered layouts, demolition and rebuilding. The latest dated correction on this sheet is October 1970. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in October 1956, with a 1956 copyright date, and a key plan covering this area, acquired with the same group of maps, records corrections to October 1970. Other streets on the sheet include Great Titchfield Street, Mortimer Street, Wells Street and Winsley Street.
Size 63 x 53 cm | 24.5 x 21.0 inches
Date Published: 1956 (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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