{"product_id":"old-street-map-of-london-1934-greenwich-royal-naval-college-blackheath-common-surrey-docks-rotherhithe-tunnel","title":"Old Street Map of London, 1934: Greenwich, Royal Naval College, Blackheath Common, Surrey Docks, Rotherhithe Tunnel","description":"\u003cp\u003eGREENWICH Blackheath Lewisham Deptford New Cross Rotherhithe, Sheet 18 from Bacon’s Large Scale Atlas of London (1934), is a masterclass in interwar urban cartography and a compelling portrait of southeast London at a moment of transition. Bacon’s authoritative hand captures the sweep of the Thames and the dense weave of neighborhoods across SE3, SE4, SE7, SE8, SE10, SE13, SE14, SE15, and SE16, with the clarity and color-coding that defined the firm’s London atlases. This is a city map of consequence: it shows how riverside industry, new housing estates, and venerable town centers cohered into a living metropolis. The enumerated SE postal districts give structure to the sprawl, while the precisely drawn street plan reveals the everyday routes—commercial, domestic, and maritime—that underpinned the area’s social and economic life in 1934.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe map’s riverine drama is irresistible. From Rotherhithe’s working quays along Rotherhithe Street to Deptford’s historic maritime frontage at Watergate Street and St. Margaret’s Street, the Thames is presented as engine and stage. Greenwich’s gracious curve is anchored by the Royal Naval College and the foot tunnel, while the East Greenwich riverfront—linked by Woolwich Road—shows the heavy industry that powered the capital. Across the inlets, the Surrey Commercial Docks and the Rotherhithe Tunnel articulate a freighted landscape of movement. The layering of shipyards, granaries, gasworks, and wharves, set beside terraced streets and parishes, makes this an unusually vivid city map: it conveys both the scale of London’s port economy and its proximity to everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInland, Bacon charts the green lungs and rising suburbs with equal finesse. Blackheath Common spreads like a great heathery plateau, edged by Blackheath Park, The Hill, and Kidbrooke Park Road; Greenwich Park rises toward the Observatory, a landmark boldly set within its avenues. The River Ravensbourne is traced from Lewisham—where Lewisham High Street and Loampit Hill converge—down to Deptford Creek at Greenwich, while the Quaggy’s meanders shape quieter residential pockets. Parks such as Southwark Park, Deptford Park, Hilly Fields, and Telegraph Hill Park appear as carefully preserved civic spaces amid Brockley’s terraces and New Cross’s academic quarter around Goldsmiths. Streets like Brockley Road, Pepys Road, and St. John’s Road stitch these neighborhoods into coherent districts, offering a rare, textured reading of social topography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sheet excels at showing connectivity—how London worked. Major arteries such as Old Kent Road and New Cross Road align with tram corridors and arterial schemes, while rail infrastructure of the Southern Railway is minutely depicted: New Cross and New Cross Gate, Brockley, St Johns, Deptford, Greenwich, and Lewisham stations, with viaducts stepping over Deptford Creek. Deptford High Street and Greenwich High Road, etched as commercial spines, reveal market life and services at the heart of older town centers. The enumerated SE districts, introduced in the early 20th century, are crisply labeled, aiding orientation across parish lines and new estates. It is a metropolitan diagram you can read at the scale of a wharf, a platform, or a park gate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBehind this clarity stands George W. Bacon \u0026amp; Co., whose interwar atlases set the standard for dependable, eminently readable city mapping. Bacon’s Large Scale Atlas of London balanced visual elegance with granular utility—color-coded neighborhoods, distinct typography, and scrupulous delineation of streets, railways, and open spaces. This sheet exemplifies that ethos: it captures the seam where riverine industry met modern suburb and where historic towns—Greenwich, Deptford, Lewisham—retained identity amid 1930s growth. For historians, urbanists, and anyone tracing family or street histories, the presence of thoroughfares such as Greenwich High Road, Deptford High Street, Woolwich Road, and New Cross Road provides fixed points in time—an authoritative, richly legible map of a city becoming itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStreets and roads on this map\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbbey Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlackheath Park\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrockley Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeptford High Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEliot Bank\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFleet Street Hill\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGreenwich High Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHall Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKidbrooke Park Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLewisham High Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLoampit Hill\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew Cross Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOld Kent Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePepys Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRotherhithe Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSt. John's Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSt. Margaret's Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Hill\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Strand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrenchard Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTurnham Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWatergate Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhitefoot Lane\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWoolwich Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYardley Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotable Features \u0026amp; Landmarks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThames River and associated waterfront areas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlackheath common\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublic parks and open spaces\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEnumerated postal districts (SE notation)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVarious landmarks and residential areas in each district\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical and design context\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublication Details: Sheet 18 from Bacon’s Large Scale Atlas of London (1934) by George W. Bacon \u0026amp; Co.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreation Date: 1934\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMapmaker\/Publisher: George W. Bacon \u0026amp; Co., noted for their authoritative mapping of London during the interwar period.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThemes: Focuses on urban layout, neighborhood connections, and Thames-side zones, emphasizing the development patterns of early 1930s southeast London.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCovered Areas: Districts include SE3 Blackheath, SE4 Brockley, SE7 Charlton, SE8 Deptford, SE10 Greenwich, SE13 Lewisham, SE14 New Cross, SE15 Peckham, and SE16 Rotherhithe.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDesign Style: Features a detailed street layout typical of interwar cartography, including colorful labeling and a clear depiction of neighborhoods.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHistorical Significance: Provides insight into the urban development and infrastructure of southeastern London during the 1930s, representing the social and economic landscape of the time.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlease double check the images to make sure that a specific town or place is shown on this map. You can also get in touch and ask us to check the map for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map looks great at every size, but I always recommend going for a larger size if you have space. That way you can easily make out all of the details. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map looks amazing at sizes all the way up to 50in (125cm). If you are looking for a larger map, please \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003eget in touch\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe model in the listing images is holding the 18x24in (45x60cm) version of this map.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fifth listing image shows an example of my map personalisation service.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you’re looking for something slightly different, check out my collection of the \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/collections\/all-old-vintage-antique-maps\"\u003ebest old maps\u003c\/a\u003e to see if something else catches your eye.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlease \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003econtact me\u003c\/a\u003e to check if a certain location, landmark or feature is shown on this map.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis would make a wonderful birthday, Christmas, Father's Day, work leaving, anniversary or housewarming gift for someone from the areas covered by this map.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map is available as a giclée print on acid free archival matte paper, or you can buy it framed. The frame is a nice, simple black frame that suits most aesthetics. Please get in touch if you'd like a different frame colour or material. My frames are glazed with super-clear museum-grade acrylic (perspex\/acrylite), which is significantly less reflective than glass, safer, and will always arrive in perfect condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Unique Maps Co.","offers":[{"title":"12x16in (30x40cm) \/ Map","offer_id":58247545127296,"sku":"UM00294387A","price":84.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12x16in (30x40cm) \/ Framed map","offer_id":58247545160064,"sku":"UM00294388A","price":225.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12x16in (30x40cm) \/ Framed canvas map","offer_id":58247545192832,"sku":"UM00294389A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3 (297x420mm) \/ Map","offer_id":58247545225600,"sku":"UM00294390A","price":84.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3 (297x420mm) \/ Framed map","offer_id":58247545258368,"sku":"UM00294391A","price":225.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3 (297x420mm) \/ Framed canvas 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