Goad London 41—EC1—GPO—Postman's Park—Christ Church—Aldersgate 1958 (1969) map
£190
SKU: P-9-001105
Charles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 41 [St Martin's-le-Grand, Postman's Park, Christ Church Greyfriars (site) and the General Post Office]
Goad's fire insurance plan of London, sheet 41, covers Postman's Park and St Martin's-le-Grand (EC1), where GPO North and the GPO stores then dominated, a reminder that the City administered the postal system as well as finance. The headquarters building of 1894–95 served the Post Office until 1984 and is now Nomura House, with financial offices rebuilt within the historic exterior. Postman's Park takes its name from the postmen who rested there, and it holds Watts's Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice of 1900. On the sheet, the site of Christ Church Greyfriars with St Leonard Foster marks Wren's church, which was gutted in December 1940 and has been a public garden since 1989. By contrast, St Botolph without Aldersgate, rebuilt in 1788–91, remains in use. Goad's plans were made to assess property and fire risk, and they were kept current with pasted overlays recording new uses, altered layouts, demolition and rebuilding. The latest dated correction on this sheet is a basement vacancy at 5 Little Britain, dated September 1969. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in April 1958, with a 1958 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 Britain, Aldersgate Street, King Edward Street, Angel Street, Newgate Street, Roman Bath Street and Cross Key Square.
Size 63 x 53 cm | 24.5 x 21.0 inches
Date Published: 1958 (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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