Goad London 141—EC1—Finsbury—Bunhill Fields—Old Street—City Road 1962 (1970) map

Charles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 141 [Old Street, City Road, Bunhill Row and Bunhill Fields]

Goad's fire insurance plan of London, sheet 141, covers Bunhill Fields, Old Street and City Road (EC1), including the nonconformist burial ground of 1665–1854 where Bunyan, Defoe, Blake and Susanna Wesley lie. The burial ground is now a City of London Corporation garden. North of it, the gown factories, printers and engineering premises on the sheet record an economy that then made and moved goods around Old Street. That area later became Silicon Roundabout, the web cluster that gathered there from 2008 and that David Cameron launched as Tech City in November 2010. Here the Westminster Bank and its training centre carry a name that vanished on 1 January 1970, when the bank's merger with National Provincial made it National Westminster Bank. The sheet also names Bentima House, Moorfields Primary School and St Luke's Parochial Schools. Drawn for insurers weighing property and fire risk, the plan carries pasted overlays recording changed uses, altered layouts, demolition and new building, and its latest dated correction is March 1970. The sheet was resurveyed and reissued in May 1962, with a 1962 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 Bunhill Row, Featherstone Street and Mallow Street.

CAPTION BELOW PICTURE: 'Charles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 141 [Old Street, City Road, Bunhill Row and Bunhill Fields]'

IMAGE SIZE: Approx 62.5 x 53.0cm, 24.5 x 20.75 inches (Large)

ARTIST/CARTOGRAPHER/ENGRAVER: Charles Goad & Co

PROVENANCE: Insurance Plan of London, Volume VI. Charles E. Goad, London.

TYPE: Vintage hand-coloured fire-insurance plan with later overpasted amendments

AUTHENTICITY: This is an authentic historic print, published at the date stated above. I do not offer reproductions. It is not a modern copy. The term 'original' when applied to a print…