Maps of Tower Hamlets

Maps of Tower Hamlets

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Insurance Plan of London Vol. VII: sheet 170-4

1 : 480 This detailed 1887 plan of London is one of a series of twenty-six sheets in an atlas originally produced to aid insurance companies in assessing fire risks. The building footprints, their use (commercial, residential, educational, etc.), the number of floors and the height of the building, as well as construction materials (and thus risk of burning) and special fire hazards (chemicals, kilns, ovens) were documented in order to estimate premiums. Names of individual businesses, property lines, and addresses were also often recorded. Together these maps provide a rich historical shapshot of the commercial activity and urban landscape of towns and cities at the time. The British Library holds a comprehensive collection of fire insurance plans produced by the London-based firm Charles E. Goad Ltd. dating back to 1885. These plans were made for most important towns and cities of the British Isles at the scales of 1:480 (1 inch to 40 feet), as well as many foreign towns at 1:600 (1 inch to 50 feet). Chas E Goad Limited Chas E Goad Limited
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Insurance Plan of London Vol. VII: sheet 171-1

1 : 480 This detailed 1887 plan of London is one of a series of twenty-six sheets in an atlas originally produced to aid insurance companies in assessing fire risks. The building footprints, their use (commercial, residential, educational, etc.), the number of floors and the height of the building, as well as construction materials (and thus risk of burning) and special fire hazards (chemicals, kilns, ovens) were documented in order to estimate premiums. Names of individual businesses, property lines, and addresses were also often recorded. Together these maps provide a rich historical shapshot of the commercial activity and urban landscape of towns and cities at the time. The British Library holds a comprehensive collection of fire insurance plans produced by the London-based firm Charles E. Goad Ltd. dating back to 1885. These plans were made for most important towns and cities of the British Isles at the scales of 1:480 (1 inch to 40 feet), as well as many foreign towns at 1:600 (1 inch to 50 feet). Chas E Goad Limited Chas E Goad Limited
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London VII.90 - OS London Town Plan

1 : 1056 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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London (1915- Numbered sheets) V.16 (includes: Bermondsey; Poplar Borough) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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London (First Editions c1850s) XLVI (includes: Bermondsey; Poplar Borough) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Insurance Plan of London Vol. V: Key Plan 3

1 : 480 This detailed 1887 plan of London is one of a series of twenty-five sheets in an atlas originally produced to aid insurance companies in assessing fire risks. The building footprints, their use (commercial, residential, educational, etc.), the number of floors and the height of the building, as well as construction materials (and thus risk of burning) and special fire hazards (chemicals, kilns, ovens) were documented in order to estimate premiums. Names of individual businesses, property lines, and addresses were also often recorded. Together these maps provide a rich historical shapshot of the commercial activity and urban landscape of towns and cities at the time. The British Library holds a comprehensive collection of fire insurance plans produced by the London-based firm Charles E. Goad Ltd. dating back to 1885. These plans were made for most important towns and cities of the British Isles at the scales of 1:480 (1 inch to 40 feet), as well as many foreign towns at 1:600 (1 inch to 50 feet). Chas E Goad Limited Chas E Goad Limited
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Insurance Plan of London: sheet 4

This detailed 1889 plan of London is one of a series of six sheets in an atlas originally produced to aid insurance companies in assessing fire risks. The building footprints, their use (commercial, residential, educational, etc.), the number of floors and the height of the building, as well as construction materials (and thus risk of burning) and special fire hazards (chemicals, kilns, ovens) were documented in order to estimate premiums. Names of individual businesses, property lines, and addresses were also often recorded. Together these maps provide a rich historical shapshot of the commercial activity and urban landscape of towns and cities at the time. The British Library holds a comprehensive collection of fire insurance plans produced by the London-based firm Charles E. Goad Ltd. dating back to 1885. These plans were made for most important towns and cities of the British Isles at the scales of 1:480 (1 inch to 40 feet), as well as many foreign towns at 1:600 (1 inch to 50 feet). Chas E Goad Limited Chas E Goad Limited
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Vrbium Londini et West-Monasterii nec non suburbii Southwark accurata ichnographia, 3

1 Blatt : 53 x 57 cm Homännische Erben
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THE SURREY & KENT COMMERCIAL ROADS from the KINGS YARD DEPTFORD, EAST COUNTRY AND COMMERCIAL DOCKS to the Bricklayers Arms, Kent Road & TOOLEY STREET

1 : 7920 Plan for laying down new roads connecting the docks in Deptford to Tooley Street in Bermondsey. The plan is oriented with south at the top and features title and scale bar at lower left and key to colour at top left.
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London VII.SE - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Surrey III.NE - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Essex LXXXI.NW - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Kent I.NE - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Newcourt's 'Map of London', detail showing the East End

Richard Newcourt’s map, made in 1658, represents the first complete survey of London since the 1550s. It shows the City and its surrounding countryside in the closing years of the Commonwealth. Though most buildings are depicted in a conventionalised way, the map gives some idea of the actual appearance of more important places, such as churches and livery halls. The inclusion of their coats of arms in the map's decoration suggests the Livery Companies may have commissioned Newcourt's work. The map provides a fairly accurate picture of the development of the City's eastern suburbs, already spreading along the roads that reached out across the countryside towards the surrounding villages. As well as being the docklands of London, this was the area where the first native English school of chartmaking, the so-called 'Thames School', was getting underway at the very time this map was made. Newcourt, Richard
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LONDON 19

The title of this miniature map of London features along the river. The map's orientation is reversed horizontally so that the west is represented on the right of the map.
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Zielgebeit II London

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An Actuall Survey of the Parish of St Dunstan Stepney alias Stebunheath ... Taken ... 1703 by Ioel Gascoyne, engraven by Iohn Harris. A scale of 1320 yards[ = 9 inches]

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A PROPOSED PLAN FOR WET DOCKS IN WAPPING &c.

1 : 8175 Proposed plan for wet docks at Wapping, with title along the top, key at bottom right, tide table for Blackwall at bottom centre and inset plan of docking and storage facilities at bottom left. This was one of many large scale plans for new docking and shipping facilities for London submitted to Parliament after a Parliamentary Committee reported on the congestion and inadequacy of the London port in 1796. Walker, Ralph
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The LONDON DOCKS

1 : 14080 This is Daniel Alexanders original design for the London Docks and Cut. The plan's title and key are at lower left, with the site of the new docks highlighted in blue. Alexander's original design included a 20-acre St. Georges Dock to the west and a seven-acre Shadwell Dock to the east. Each would have their own basin, and be linked by a small Tobacco Dock. Opened in 1805, London Docks were the nearest to the city, and for 21 years all imported tobacco, rice, wine and brandy (except that from the East and West Indies) had to unload there. Alexander, Daniel
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Vrbium Londini et West-Monasterii, nec non suburbii Southwark

1 : 6600 Londýn (Anglie) edita curis Homannianorum Heredum
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Charles Booth's descriptive map of London poverty 1889

Charles Booth
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PLAN SHEWING THE PROPOSED LINE of the LONDON AND GREENWICH RAILWAY

1 : 7200 The title of this plan appears at bottom left, with an explanatory note and scale bar at bottom centre. An illustration of the general construction of the railway features at bottom right. The Greenwich line reached Bermondsey in 1836. A year later, it reached London Bridege, which became the first railway terminus in the capital. Wyld, James
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London

1 : 50000 Londýn (Anglie) Hollar, Václav Blome, Richard Ric. Blome
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LONDEN, WESTMUNSTER U: SOUDWARK

The title of this German map of London, Westminster and Southwark, appears between two ribbons at the top. A compass rose appears in the river, with prominent buildings shown pictorially instead of in plan and numbered for reference. Stridbeck, Johannes
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Insurance Plan of London East South East District Vol. H: Key Plan

1 : 10560 This "key plan" indicates coverage of the Goad 1897 series of fire insurance maps of London that were originally produced to aid insurance companies in assessing fire risks. The building footprints, their use (commercial, residential, educational, etc.), the number of floors and the height of the building, as well as construction materials (and thus risk of burning) and special fire hazards (chemicals, kilns, ovens) were documented in order to estimate premiums. Names of individual businesses, property lines, and addresses were also often recorded. Together these maps provide a rich historical shapshot of the commercial activity and urban landscape of towns and cities at the time. The British Library holds a comprehensive collection of fire insurance plans produced by the London-based firm Charles E. Goad Ltd. dating back to 1885. These plans were made for most important towns and cities of the British Isles at the scales of 1:480 (1 inch to 40 feet), as well as many foreign towns at 1:600 (1 inch to 50 feet). Chas E Goad Limited Chas E Goad Limited
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FAIRBURN'S PLAN of the proposed WET-DOCKS AND CUT from NEW GRAVEL LANE to BLACKWALL

1 : 16896 The plan's title and publisher's imprint appear at bottom left, with a compass star, key and scale bar at bottom centre.The boundary of the area to be developed is highlighted in red. After a Parliamentary Select Committee in 1796 condemned the congestion at the Port of London, a number of large-scale projects for new docking and shipping facilities were submitted to Parliament. Fairburn's plan illustrates the London merchants' scheme. It consists of an entrance dock that could accommodate 33 loaded ships, two main docks that would accommodate a total of 355 ships and a separate dock for lighters. The plan also included the creation of the 2" 3/4 mile long cut from Wapping to Blackwall. An improved version of this scheme would eventually materialise as the London Docks. Fairburn, John
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AN EXACT DELINEATION OF THE CITIES OF LONDON AND WESTMINSTER AND THE SUBURBS Thereof, Together Wth. Ye Burrough of SOUTHWARK

This is a copy of the 1658 Faithorne map made in 1857. It depicts London as it stood during the last two years of the Commonwealth, before the great fire. Dense clusters of houses appear very close together, separated only by narrow streets - an indication of the city's vulnerability to fire. Newcourt, Richard
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Rowe's map of London, westminster and Southwark, exhibiting the various improvements to the year 1804, detail showing the London and west india Docks

A canal and the two West India docks now cut across the neck of the Isle of Dogs to provide shipping with a shortcut across its marshy peninsular. A wall around its edge holds back the tidal Thames while windmills on the windy west side pump water from the marsh. As industry spreads, wealthy residents are lured away to the fashionable new suburbs rising to the west of London. Turnpikes appear, on the Hackney Road for example: an indication of the growing need for good roads and the money to maintain them. From the tangle of older streets, the line of the proposed new Commercial Road shoots straight across the open fields. Rowe
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THIS ACTUAL SURVEY OF LONDON, WESTMINSTER & SOUTHWARK IS HUMBLY DEDICATED TO Ye LD MAYOR & COURT OF ALDERMEN

This map is a reissue of a 1690 plan. It features the title in a banner along the top with a compass rose and the city arms. The key to public offices, wards, parishes, halls and companies appear in tables at the bottom and lower right. Prominent buildings shown in elevation. This updated edition includes the Cavendish Square development, which began in 1717. Covens& Mortier was a successful publishing business, including in its output re-issues of general atlases by Jaillot, Delisle, Vichsscher and de Wit, whose stock they had acquired. Covens, Jean & Mortier, Corneille
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This Actuale Survey of LONDON, WESTMINSTER & SOUTHWARK IS HUMBLY DEDICATED TO Y.e L.D LORD MAYOR & COURT OF ALDERMEN

This later edition of Morden and Lea's 1688 map was published by Covens & Mortier in Amsterdam in 1725. The title appears in English and French in a ribbon along the top. The key to churches, city wards, palaces, halls and companies features in a reference table at the foot of the plate. Jean Covens and Corneil Mortier founded the prestigious printing and publishing house that bears their names in Amsterdam in 1721. Over the years they published wall maps of countries and continents, reissuing many maps, town plans and general atlases by the likes of De Wit, Jaillot and De Lisle. Their heirs continued the business until the 1880s. Morden, Robert & Lea, Philip
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