Maps of Tower Hamlets
London South East Vol. J: sheet 37-2
1 : 480 This detailed 1897 plan of London is one of a series of twenty-seven 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
London XI.8 - OS London Town Plan
1 : 1056 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
London South East Vol. J: sheet 37-1
1 : 480 This detailed 1897 plan of London is one of a series of twenty-seven 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
London (1915- Numbered sheets) IX.3 (includes: Bermondsey; Camberwell; Southwark) - 25 Inch Map
1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
London (First Editions c1850s) LVI (includes: Bermondsey; Camberwell; Southwark) - 25 Inch Map
1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
A MAP OF THE PARISH OF ST. MARY MAGDALEN BERMONDSEY
1 : 5400 This parish plan was published in Strype's 1755 annotated edition of Stow's 'Survey of England'. The title appears along the top, with a key to streets, lanes, courts and alleys in tables at top left and lower right, compass rose in the centre, and scale bar at bottom right. Damaged by repeated flooding, the old medieval parish church of St. Mary was demolished at the beginning of the 18th Century. In 1715, a new parish church was erected on the site with funds raised by the parishioners themselves after the Commissioners of the Fifty New Churches Act turned down their request for money. Blome, Richard
Insurance Plan of London: sheet 3
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
London South East Vol. J: Key Plan
1 : 4800 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
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.
London XI.NE - OS Six-Inch Map
1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
Surrey III.SE - OS Six-Inch Map
1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
Essex LXXXI.NW - OS Six-Inch Map
1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
A new mapp of the city of London
1 : 7900 Londýn (Anglie) Overton, Henry John Overton
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
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
Charles Booth's descriptive map of London poverty 1889
Charles Booth
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
PLATTE GRONDT DER STADT LONDON MET NIEUW MODEL EN HOE DIE AFGEBRANDT IS
This later edition of the Frederick de Wit's 1666 plan features minor alterations to the title and some additions on the outskirts of the city. The map's title appears along the top, with the key to parish churches (in scrolls) at top left and top right and dividers at top right. An engraving depicting the city on fire is inset at bottom right. Below the plan, a description of the fire is reported in Dutch and French. This edition of the map shows cherubs holding the reference tables and a waterman with oars leaning against the view of the city. Wit, Frederick de
Urbium Londini et West-Monasterii nec non suburbii Southwark accurata ichnographia : in qua viae publicae omnes et singulae, plateae majores et minores, vici, angiporti, porticulae etc. una cum accessionibus aedificiorum, quibus urbs usque ad a. 1736, novissime locupletata est, reprasentantur : ad norman prototypi Londinensis edita curris Hommannianorum Heredum C.P.S.C.M
1 : 5280 Homann Erben (Firm) Homaennischen Erben
LONDON 206
This plan for a survey of London was published in Volume VIII of ‘Encyclopaedia Londinensis' in 1814. The plan's title appears above the plan, with a compass star at the top right. St. Paul's Cathedral and other prominent buildings are shown pictorially, with other places of interest indicated by numbers. Jones, George
A New Map of the Cities of London and Westminster and Ye Borough of Southwarke with the Suburbs
Large map of London with prospect view of the City from Bankside in a strip above the main plan. Entitled "Prospect of London as it was flourishing before the destruction by fire", the view is based on Hollar's celebrated view of London from Bankside of 1647 and shows London from Worcester House (just west of the Savoy) on the west to Wapping and St Catherine's Docks to the east. The view shows London before the fire being composed almost exclusively of Gothic buildings, Inigo Jones’s Banqueting Hall at Whitehall and the classical restoration of St. Paul’s cathedral being the only examples of Renaissance architecture. The map, with title in cartouche, reference tables at top right and top left and scale bar at bottom centre, is a very minute bird's eye view of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark and the suburbs showing London after the fire growing in area faster than ever before. Stepney Church, for example, marks a new point of growth east of the city. Hollar, Wenceslaus
PLATTE GRONDT DER STADT LONDON MET AENWYSINGHE HOE DIE AFGEBRANDT
This map was published in Amsterdam after the great fire of 1666. The title appears along the top of the manuscript, with the key to parish churches (in scrolls) at top left and top right, and dividers at top right. An engraving of the great fire is inset at bottom right, entitled "BRANDENT LONDON". Below the plan, the fire is described in Dutch and French. Wit, Frederick de
The LONDON GUIDE, or A POCKET PLAN of the CITIES OF LONDON & WESTMINSTER and BOROUGH of SOUTHWARK with the BEW BUILDINGS, &C to the present year
This map of Georgian London was published in John Entick's 1766'A New and Accurate History and Survey of London, Westminster and Southwark.' The title of the map appears in a panel below the plan along with the rates of hackney coaches and water ferries. It extends eastward to include Limehouse, then one of the main centres for shipbuilding in the capital. Bowles, Carington
PLATTE GRONDT Der Verbrande Stadt LONDON
This map was published in Amsterdam aftermath the great fire of 1666. The title in a banner at top right, flanked by City and Royal arms. The design for rebuilding the City is inset in a panel at top left, with an engraved view of the fire in a banner at bottom centre. Below the plan is a description of the fire in Dutch, French and English with a key to streets and buildings. Doornick, Marcus Willemsz
A new mapp of the city of London &c. : with the many additionall buildings and new streets anno 1723 in a playne
1 : 7300 Taylor, Thomas, fl. 1670-1730 Printed and sold by Thomas Taylor at the Golden Lyon in Fleet Street
An IMPROVED PLAN of the CITIES of LONDON and WESTMINSTER and BOROUGH of SOUTHWARK, including the NEW BUILDINGS, ROADS &C. to the Present Year 1765.
The title of this pocket map appears along the top, with built-up areas represented by stippling in the City of London, and crosshatching elsewhere. A table of reference appears in a panel below the plan. The map, a later edition of Kitching and Parker's 1765 plan, shows the new bridge and the approaches at Blackfriars. Designed by Robert Mylne, this third bridge spanning the Thames was built between 1760 and 69. The nine semi-elliptical Portland stone arches were replaced from 1860 to 69 by the present structure of five wrought-iron arches each faced with cast iron, and a granite pier designed by Cubitt and Carr. Kitching, Thomas and Parker, Henry
A NEW and Correct PLAN OF THE CITIES AND SUBURBS OF LONDON & WESTMINSTER & BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK with the COUNTRY adjacent, the NEW BUILDINGS, ROADS &c. to the Year 1766
The title of this map runs along the top of the plan, which shows the new bridge at Blackfriars as "Pitt's Bridge". Designed by Robert Mylne, this third bridge spanning the Thames was built between 1760 and 69. The nine semi-elliptical Portland stone arches were replaced in a hundred years later by the present structure of five wrought-iron arches faced with cast-iron, and a granite pier designed by Cubitt and Carr. Gibson, John
A NEW and Correct PLAN of LONDON WESTMINSTER and SOUTHWARK with the New Buildings to the Year 1770
This map was published in 'A new and complete history and survey of the cities of London and Westminster... revised by Henry Chamberlain.' Only one edition was published and some copies omit the name of the engraver, J. Flyn. The Chelsea Waterworks are shown in Hyde Park. This was the first water-plant to use slow sand filtration to purify the water it supplied. Flyn, J.
An IMPROVED PLAN of the CITIES of LONDON and WESTMINSTER and BOROUGH of SOUTHWARK, including the NEW BUILDINGS, ROADS &C.
This coloured map shows the built-up area of the City of London as a stippled pattern, with other built-up areas crosshatched. This map is a later edition of Kitching and Parker's 1765 plan, updated to include the new bridge and the approaches at Blackfriars as finally laid out. Designed by Robert Mylne, this third bridge spanning the Thames was built between 1760 and 69. The nine semi-elliptical Portland stone arches were replaced from 1860 to 69 by the present structure of five wrought-iron arches each faced with cast iron, and a granite pier designed by Cubitt and Carr. Kitching, Thomas and Parker, Henry
