Goad London 37—EC4—Holborn—Daily Mirror—Fetter Lane—W. H. Smith 1956 (1969) map
£190
SKU: P-9-001205
Charles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 37 [Holborn, Fetter Lane, New Fetter Lane and the Daily Mirror printing works]
Goad's fire insurance plan of London, sheet 37, covers Holborn and Fetter Lane (EC4), an area then dominated by the Daily Mirror newspaper printing works. The sheet shows the works' reel storage, machine spaces and engineering accommodation, exposing the factory behind the newspaper. Owen Williams's Mirror building overlooked Holborn Circus from 1961 until 1994. Its replacement by the 33 Holborn office development, which has been Sainsbury's headquarters since 2001, marks the loss of a major manufacturing workplace from the City fringe. On the sheet, Mirror House, the W. H. Smith & Sons premises and a computer centre appear alongside Buchanan House, Prestige House and Halton House. Field House, on Breams Buildings, is today an immigration and asylum tribunal hearing centre. These working plans were drawn for property and fire-risk assessment, and they carried pasted overlays recording new uses, altered layouts, demolition and new building. The latest dated correction on this sheet is an upper-floor vacancy note of September 1969 at 83 Fetter Lane. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in February 1956, with a 1956 copyright date, and the key plans acquired with the group were corrected as late as October 1970 and March 1971. Other streets on the sheet include Holborn Circus, Furnival Street, New Fetter Lane, Norwich Street and Cursitor Street.
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Size 63 x 53 cm | 24.5 x 21.0 inches
Date Published: 1956 (1969)
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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