Goad London 238—SE1—South Bank—Shell Centre—Hungerford Bridge 1959 (c1971) map

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SKU: P-9-001213

Charles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 238 [South Bank: Shell Centre, Belvedere Road, York Road and Hungerford Bridge]


Goad's fire insurance plan of London, sheet 238, covers the South Bank at Hungerford Bridge (SE1), where it shows the Shell Centre as a self-contained corporate workplace of offices, a recreation hall, a swimming pool and a cinema. The complex was built in the early 1960s over wharves, stores and small streets. Today it keeps its tower, though the lower wings were demolished from 2015 for the offices and homes of Southbank Place, which bring a more varied use to this large site. The sheet also draws the Waterloo Underground Station escalators, the Hungerford Bridge railway viaduct, Royal Festival Hall stores in the railway arches, an ambulance station and G.L.C. Education offices on temporary huts. The G.L.C. Education label records the 1965 reorganisation that replaced the London County Council with the GLC and the London boroughs. It is the latest alteration identified, and it indicates an amendment of 1965 or later. The plan was made to assess property and fire risk, and it was updated with pasted overlays recording new uses, altered layouts, demolition and rebuilding. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in February 1959, with a 1959 copyright date, and no later correction on it carries a date. The key plan acquired with the same group records corrections to March 1971. Other streets on the sheet include Belvedere Road, York Road, Concert Hall Approach and Sutton Walk.

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Size 63 x 53 cm | 24.5 x 21.0 inches

Date Published: 1959 (c1971)

February 1959 (resurvey and reissue); copyright 1959. We have identified no explicitly dated later corrections on this sheet. The Greater London Council education label suggests an amended state of 1965 or later. The key plan for Volume X records corrections to March 1971.

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 X. 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 237 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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