Block plan of University College, London
Colour plan of Gower Street showing the location of Darwin’s house at number 110, formerly 12 Upper Gower Street.
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Map of London comprising the estates of the Duke of Bedford, 1795
Much of the land comprising Bloomsbury came into the possession of the Dukes of Bedford in the 1660s. Initially only the southern part along Great Russell Street was developed. Behind that to the north there were fields and a dairy farm which remained undisturbed for much of the 18th century. From 1776 this area was developed, with first Bedford Square and then Gower Street being built. However, there remained significant areas of open ground including the future site of UCL, which can be seen at the bottom of this enlargement, marked as 'Land belonging to Mr Mortimer'.
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Map of London from an Actual Survey made in the Years 1824, 1825 and 1826 By C. and J. Greenwood
Greenwood’s map is scaled at eight inches to the mile, covers London and surroundings and stretches out to Earls Court in the West, to the River Lea and Greenwich in the East, Highgate to the North and to the South, Camberwell. This enlarged section shows how the remaining open fields of the Bloomsbury area have been covered in new streets and houses and includes the ground plan for Wilkins’s building for the new University of London that was in the process of construction at the northern end of Gower Street.
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A plan of the College as it was in 1887By this time, both wings had been built, but the South Wing was still housing the School, the fourth side of the Quadrangle was open except for the old lodges, and there was still no development outside the quadrangle itself.
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Simpson (1923)A plan of the College prepared by F M Simpson in 1923, after his term as Professor of Architecture; it shows the distribution of departments shortly before the Centenary, but is rather inconsistent in its dating of the various buildings.
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Daw Map of the Parish of St. Pancras in the county of Middlesex, 1880
This enlarged section shows Bloomsbury in the 1880s and the changes wrought to the north of the area by the coming of the railway and Euston Station, which was built in 1837 and enlarged in 1849.
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Original PlanThe original plan for the College designed by William Wilkins.
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