Anglers Lane once ran down to a small bridge across the River Fleet at a spot that was popular with fishermen.
Anglers Lane had been "one of the loveliest sites imaginable" according to an old resident of Kentish Town, reminiscing in the local newspaper in 1909.
"Beside it, and then with a curve over it ran the Fleet River. Many a time, as a lad, I beheld the spectacle which gave it its name : a row of weary anglers, some in cloth caps and some in battered top hats".
A public house was recorded in Anglers Lane as the Compleat Angler in 1725 and later called the (Jolly) Anglers.
Anglers Lane - at first called Alma Road - was built up from the early 1850s onwards. The Fleet River was forced into sewer pipes in the 1860s as the area was developed.
For more than a hundred years, Anglers Lane was home to the largest false teeth factory in Europe - Claudius Ash & Company.
