Last modified: 13 November 2026
The “Street Plan” from the report of the Royal Commission on London Traffic, printed by Stanford in 1905. Over a map of London from Wembley and Ealing to Hackney and Bermondsey, and from Highgate to Roehampton and Brixton, it marks in red the new streets and road widenings proposed by the Commission’s Advisory Board, lettered A to T: two great new avenues crossing at Holborn, one east to west and one north to south, and a string of widenings across west and south London. Route “O”, the widening of Wandsworth Road, runs from Vauxhall through Battersea and past Clapham Junction to Wandsworth.
The map. The Royal Commission on London Traffic sat from 1903 to 1905. This plan, “showing New Streets and Improvements referred to in the Report of the Advisory Board”, was printed by Stanford’s Geographical Establishment. The red lines are proposals, not roads that existed.
This copy. The Kensington Public Libraries copy (their stamp is under the title), as shown in the online viewer of Antique Maps & Prints, put together from the viewer’s tiles. Most of the map is sharp; a few parts, mainly in the top right, are a little softer.
See also. Stanford’s map of 1905, of the area around Wandsworth Common at a much larger scale, and the five-foot town plan of the 1890s.
Maps of this age are out of copyright. Prepared by Philip Boys, with Claude.
Build 1. Source: Antique Maps & Prints (Kensington Public Libraries copy).