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* Charles E. Goad began a fire insurance map-making company in Canada in 1875. Goad established a London office in 1885. <ref>[http://www.buildinghistory.org/maps.shtml] Researching Historic Buildings in the British Isles website </ref> | * Charles E. Goad began a fire insurance map-making company in Canada in 1875. Goad established a London office in 1885. <ref>[http://www.buildinghistory.org/maps.shtml] 'Researching Historic Buildings in the British Isles' website </ref> | ||
* Goad’s series of large scale Fire Insurance Plans of various towns and cities showed a quite remarkable amount of detail of value to insurance companies. Nowadays they provide an immensely useful source of historical information about the buildings in selected areas of cities. | * Goad’s series of large scale Fire Insurance Plans of various towns and cities showed a quite remarkable amount of detail of value to insurance companies. Nowadays they provide an immensely useful source of historical information about the buildings in selected areas of cities. | ||
Revision as of 19:32, 3 February 2012
- Charles E. Goad began a fire insurance map-making company in Canada in 1875. Goad established a London office in 1885. [1]
- Goad’s series of large scale Fire Insurance Plans of various towns and cities showed a quite remarkable amount of detail of value to insurance companies. Nowadays they provide an immensely useful source of historical information about the buildings in selected areas of cities.
- Over 100 of the Goad plans for Manchester, covering a variety of dates from the 1880s to the 1940s, have been scanned at high resolution, and are available on CD from the Digital Archives Association [2]
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