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Islington grew as a sprawling Middlesex village along the line of the Great North Road, and has provided the name of the modern borough.

Some roads on the edge of the area, including Essex Road, were known as streets by the medieval period, possibly indicating a Roman origin, but little physical evidence remains. What is known is that the Great North Road from Aldersgate came into use in the 14th century, connecting with a new turnpike up Highgate Hill. This was along the line of modern Upper Street, with a toll gate at The Angel defining the extent of the village. The Back Road - modern Liverpool Road - was primarily a drovers’ road where cattle would be rested before the final leg of their journey to Smithfield. Pens and sheds were erected along this road to accommodate the animals.

The first recorded church, St Mary’s, was erected in the twelfth century and was replaced in the fifteenth century. Islington lay on the estates of the Bishop of London and the Dean and Chapter of St Pauls. There were substantial medieval moated manor houses in the area, principally at Canonbury and Highbury. In 1548, there were 440 communicants listed and the rural atmosphere, with access to the City and Westminster, made it a popular residence for the rich and eminent. The local inns, however, harboured many fugitives and recusants.

In the 17th and 18th centuries the availability of water made Islington a good place for growing vegetables to feed London. The manor became a popular excursion destination for Londoners, attracted to the area by its rural feel. Many public houses were therefore built to serve the needs of both the excursionists and travellers on the turnpike. By 1716, there were 56 ale-house keepers in Upper Street, also offering pleasure and tea gardens, and activities such as archery, skittle alleys and bowling. By the 18th century, music and dancing were offered, together with billiards, firework displays and balloon ascents. The King’s Head Tavern, now a Victorian building with a theatre, has remained on the same site, opposite the parish church, since 1543. The founder of the theatre, Dan Crawford, who died in 2005, disagreed with the introduction of decimal coinage. For twenty-plus years after decimalisation (on 15 February 1971), the bar continued to show prices and charge for drinks in ’old money’.

By the 19th century many music halls and theatres were established around Islington Green. One such was Collins’ Music Hall, the remains of which are now partly incorporated into a bookshop. The remainder of the Hall has been redeveloped into a new theatre, with its entrance at the bottom of Essex Road. It stood on the site of the Landsdowne Tavern, where the landlord had built an entertainment room for customers who wanted to sing (and later for professional entertainers). It was founded in 1862 by Samuel Thomas Collins Vagg and by 1897 had become a 1800-seat theatre with 10 bars. The theatre suffered damage in a fire in 1958 and has not reopened.

The Islington Literary and Scientific Society was established in 1833 and first met in Mr Edgeworth’s Academy on Upper Street. Its goal was to spread knowledge through lectures, discussions, and experiments - politics and theology being forbidden. A building, the Literary and Scientific Institution, was erected in 1837 in Wellington (later Almeida) Street, designed by Roumieu and Gough in a stuccoed Grecian style. It included a library (containing 3,300 volumes in 1839), reading room, museum, laboratory, and lecture theatre seating 500.

The Royal Agricultural Hall was built in 1862 on the Liverpool Road site of William Dixon’s Cattle Layers. It was built for the annual Smithfield Show in December of that year but was popular for other purposes, including recitals and the Royal Tournament. It was the primary exhibition site for London until the 20th century and the largest building of its kind, holding up to 50,000 people. It was requisitioned for use by the Mount Pleasant sorting office during World War II and never re-opened. The main hall has now been incorporated into the Business Design Centre.

The aerial bombing of World War II caused much damage to Islington’s housing stock, with 3,200 dwellings destroyed. Before the war a number of 1930s council housing blocks had been added to the stock. After the war, partly as a result of bomb site redevelopment, the council housing boom got into its stride, reaching its peak in the 1960s: several extensive estates were constructed, by both the Metropolitan Borough of Islington and the London County Council. Clearance of the worst terraced housing was undertaken, but Islington continued to be very densely populated, with a high level of overcrowding. The district has many council blocks, and the local authority has begun to replace some of them.

From the 1960s, the remaining Georgian terraces were rediscovered by middle-class families. Many of the houses were rehabilitated, and the area became newly fashionable. This displacement of the poor by the aspirational has become known as gentrification. Among the new residents were a number of figures who became central in the New Labour movement, including Tony Blair before his victory in the 1997 general election. According to The Guardian in 2006, "Islington is widely regarded as the spiritual home of Britain’s left-wing intelligentsia." The Granita Pact between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair is said to have been made at a now defunct restaurant on Upper Street.

The completion of the Victoria line and redevelopment of Angel tube station created the conditions for developers to renovate many of the early Victorian and Georgian townhouses. They also built new developments. Islington remains a district with diverse inhabitants, with its private houses and apartments not far from social housing in immediately neighbouring wards such as Finsbury and Clerkenwell to the south, Bloomsbury and King’s Cross to the west, and Highbury to the north west, and also the Hackney districts of De Beauvoir and Old Street to the north east.


Main source: Survey of London
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Lena    
Added: 18 Mar 2021 13:08 GMT   

White Conduit Street, N1
My mum, Rosina Wade of the Wade and Hannam family in the area of Chapel Street and Parkfield Street, bought her first “costume” at S Cohen’s in White Conduit Street. Would have probably been about 1936 or thereabouts. She said that he was a small man but an expert tailor. I hope that Islington Council preserve the shop front as it’s a piece of history of the area. Mum used to get her high heel shoes from an Italian shoe shop in Chapel Street. She had size 2 feet and they would let her know when a new consignment of size 2 shoes were in. I think she was a very good customer. She worked at Killingbacks artificial flower maker in Northampton Square and later at the Halifax bombers factory north of Edgware where she was a riveter.

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Jack Wilson   
Added: 21 Jun 2022 21:40 GMT   

Penfold Printers
I am seeking the location of Penfold Printers Offices in Dt Albans place - probably about 1870 or so

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Steve   
Added: 19 Mar 2024 08:42 GMT   

Road construction and houses completed
New Charleville Circus road layout shown on Stanford’s Library Map Of London And Its Suburbs 1879 with access via West Hill only.

Plans showing street numbering were recorded in 1888 so we can concluded the houses in Charleville Circus were built by this date.

Source: Charleville Circus, Sydenham, London

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Steve   
Added: 19 Mar 2024 08:04 GMT   

Charleville Circus, Sydenham: One Place Study (OPS)
One Place Study’s (OPS) are a recent innovation to research and record historical facts/events/people focused on a single place �’ building, street, town etc.

I have created an open access OPS of Charleville Circus on WikiTree that has over a million members across the globe working on a single family tree for everyone to enjoy, for free, forever.

Source: Charleville Circus, Sydenham, London

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Charles   
Added: 8 Mar 2024 20:45 GMT   

My House
I want to know who lived in my house in the 1860’s.

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NH   
Added: 7 Mar 2024 11:41 GMT   

Telephone House
Donald Hunter House, formerly Telephone House, was the BT Offices closed in 2000

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Paul Cox   
Added: 5 Mar 2024 22:18 GMT   

War damage reinstatement plans of No’s 11 & 13 Aldine Street
Whilst clearing my elderly Mothers house of general detritus, I’ve come across original plans (one on acetate) of No’s 11 & 13 Aldine Street. Might they be of interest or should I just dispose of them? There are 4 copies seemingly from the one single acetate example. Seems a shame to just junk them as the level of detail is exquisite. No worries if of no interest, but thought I’d put it out there.

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Diana   
Added: 28 Feb 2024 13:52 GMT   

New Inn Yard, E1
My great grandparents x 6 lived in New Inn Yard. On this date, their son was baptised in nearby St Leonard’s Church, Shoreditch

Source: BDM London, Cripplegate and Shoreditch registers written by church clerk.

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Vic Stanley   
Added: 24 Feb 2024 17:38 GMT   

Postcose
The postcode is SE15, NOT SE1

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Gillian   
Added: 17 Feb 2024 00:08 GMT   

No 36 Upper East Smithfield
My great great grandfather was born at No 36 Upper East Smithfield and spent his early years staring out at a "dead wall" of St Katharine’s Docks. His father was an outfitter and sold clothing for sailors. He describes the place as being backed by tenements in terrible condition and most of the people living there were Irish.

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NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE
Collins’ Music Hall Collins’ Music Hall was a notable Islington venue.
Islington Islington grew as a sprawling Middlesex village along the line of the Great North Road, and has provided the name of the modern borough.
White Conduit Fields White Conduit Fields in Islington was an early venue for cricket and several major matches are known to have been played there in the 18th century.
White Conduit Street (1950s) A line of children hold hands as they walk along the middle of White Conduit Street towards the junction with Chapel Market in Islington in the 1950s.

NEARBY STREETS
, N1 Dagmar Terrace is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Aberystwyth Terrace, N1 Aberystwyth Terrace was a named terrace at the junction of New North Road and Shepperton Road (Islington)
Adrian House, N1 Adrian House is a block on Jays Street (Islington)
Albion Mews, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Barnsbury)
Allingham Mews, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Allingham Street, N1 Allingham Street is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Alma Terrace, N1 Alma Terrace was later Brayfield Terrace (Barnsbury)
Almeida Street, N1 Almeida Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Amey Hill House, N1 Amey Hill House is a building on Barnsbury Street
Anderson Square, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Ann Street, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Arlington Avenue, N1 Arlington Avenue is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Arlington Square, N1 Arlington Square is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Arundel House, N1 Arundel House is a block on Halton Road (Islington)
Asman House, N1 Asman House is a block on Colebrooke Row (Islington)
Aztec Row, N1 Aztec Row is part of Berners Street, Islington (Islington)
Baldwin Terrace, N1 Baldwin Terrace is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Bampton House, N1 Bampton House is a block on Pleasant Place (Essex Road)
Barford Street, N1 Barford Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Baring Court, N1 Baring Court is sited on Baring Street (Islington)
Baring Street, N1 Baring Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Barnsbury Road, N1 Barnsbury Road is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Barnsbury Street, N1 Barnsbury Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area
Barnston Walk, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Basier Street, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Basire Street, N1 Basire Street is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Batchelor Street, N1 Batchelor Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Battishill Street, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Bemerton Street, N1 Bemerton Street is a street of terraced houses to the west of the Caledonian Road (Islington)
Bennet Mews, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Berners House, N1 Berners House is a block on Barnsbury Road (Islington)
Berners Road, N1 Berners Road is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Angel)
Bevan Street, N1 Bevan Street is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Birdbrook House, N1 Birdbrook House can be found on Maldon Close
Bishop Street, N1 Bishop Street is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Blackmore House, N1 Blackmore House is a block on Copenhagen Street (Islington)
Boadicea Street, N1 Boadicea Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Bonington House, N1 Bonington House is a block on Killick Street (Islington)
Bouton Court, N1 Bouton Court is a block on Bouton Place
Bouton Place, N1 A street within the N1 postcode
Boxworth Grove, N1 Boxworth Grove is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Bradleys Close, N1 Bradleys Close is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Brampton House, N1 Residential block (Essex Road)
Brayfield Terrace, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Barnsbury)
Bridel Mews, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Angel)
Britannia Row, N1 Britannia Row is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Britannia Wharf, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Hoxton)
Bromfield Street, N1 Bromfield Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Angel)
Bryan Street, N1 The modern line of Bryan Street lies somewhat to the west of the original pre-Second World War line of the street (Islington)
Brydon Walk, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Burgh Street, N1 This is a street in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Business Design Centre, N1 The Business Design Centre is a Grade II listed building located between Upper Street and Liverpool Road (Islington)
Caithness House, N1 Caithness House is a block on Twyford Street (Islington)
Caledonian Road, N1 Caledonian Road runs north from King’s Cross (Islington)
Calshot House, N1 Calshot House is a building on Priory Green (Islington)
Calshot Street, N1 Calshot Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Camden Passage, N1 Camden Passage was built as Cumberland Row in 1767 (Angel)
Camden Street, N1 Camden Street once laid at the northern end of Camden Passage (Angel)
Camden Walk, N1 Camden Walk is one of the streets of the N1 postal area (Angel)
Campbell Walk, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Canalside Square, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Canon Street, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Canonbury Business Centre, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Canonbury Villas, N1 Canonbury Villas is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area
Carleton House, N1 Carleton House is a block on Cross Street (Islington)
Carnegie Street, N1 Carnegie Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Catton House, N1 Catton House is a block on Pleasant Place (Essex Road)
Chalbury Walk, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Chantry Street, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Chapel Market, N1 Chapel Market is a daily street market in Islington (Islington)
Chapel Place, N1 Chapel Place lies off the north side of Chapel Market towards Liverpool Road (Islington)
Chaplin House, N1 Chaplin House is a block on Shepperton Road (Islington)
Charles Lamb Court, N1 Charles Lamb Court is a block on Gerrard Road (Islington)
Charlotte Terrace, N1 Charlotte Terrace is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Charlton Place, N1 Charlton Place runs east from Upper Street (Islington)
Chelsea Court, N1 Chelsea Court is located on Melville Place (Essex Road)
Clayton Crescent, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Clock Tower Mews, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Cloudesley Place, N1 Cloudesley Place is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Cloudesley Road, N1 Cloudesley Road is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Cloudesley Square, N1 Cloudesley Square is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Cloudesley Street, N1 Cloudesley Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Colebrook Row, N1 Colebrooke Row is a street of late 18th and early 19th century terraced houses (Islington)
Colebrooke Place, N1 Colebrooke Place is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Coleman Fields, N1 Coleman Fields is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Collier Street, N1 Collier Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Collins Yard, N1 Collins Yard is so-named as it ran alongside the Collins’ Music Hall giving access to the rear of the hall (Islington)
Copenhagen House, N1 Copenhagen House is a block on Charlotte Terrace (Islington)
Copenhagen Street, N1 Copenhagen Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Copford Walk, N1 Copford Walk is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Corbet House, N1 Corbet House is a block on Maygood Street (Islington)
Cowdenbeath Path, N1 Cowdenbeath Path is a walkway on the Bemerton Estate (Islington)
Cross Street, N1 Cross Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Cruden Street, N1 Cruden Street is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Dagmar Passage, N1 Dagmar Passage is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Dame Street, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Danbury Road, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Danbury Street, N1 Danbury Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Dawlish House, N1 Dawlish House is a block on Pleasant Place
De Beauvoir House, N1 De Beauvoir House is a block on Shepperton Road (Islington)
Delhi Street, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Dengie Walk, N1 A street within the N1 postcode
Denmark Grove, N1 Denmark Grove is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Devon House, N1 Devon House is a block on Upper Street (Angel)
Devonia Road, N1 Devonia Road is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Devonshire House, N1 Devonshire House can be found on Cross Street (Islington)
Dewey Road, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Dibden Street, N1 Dibden Street is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Dignum Street, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Donegal Street, N1 Donegal Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Doves Yard, N1 Doves Yard is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Dowrey Street, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Draper Place, N1 Draper Place is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Duncan Street, N1 Duncan Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Angel)
Duncan Terrace, N1 Duncan Terrace is named after Admiral Duncan the commander of the Naval Fleet at the Battle of Camperdown against the Dutch in 1797 (Islington)
Dunoon House, N1 Dunoon House is a block on Edward Square (Islington)
Eckford Street, N1 Eckford Street is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Edward Square, N1 Edward Square is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Elder Walk, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Elsinore House, N1 Elsinore House is a block on Barnsbury Road (Islington)
Elystan Walk, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Essex Road, N1 Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, had a country house here in the sixteenth century where he often entertained Queen Elizabeth I (Essex Road)
Esther Anne Place, N1 Esther Anne Place is a location in London (Islington)
Everilda Street, N1 Everilda Street is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Ewen House, N1 Ewen House is a block on Caledonian Road (Islington)
Fairstead Walk, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Fife Terrace, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Finnemore House, N1 Finnemore House is sited on Britannia Row (Islington)
Fisher House, N1 Fisher House is a building on Barnsbury Road (Islington)
Florence Court, N1 Florence Court is a block on Florence Street
Florence Street, N1 Florence Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Fowler Road, N1 Fowler Road is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Francis Walk, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Frome Street, N1 Frome Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Gaskin Street, N1 Gaskin Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Gerrard Road, N1 Gerrard Road is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Gibson Square, N1 Gibson Square is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Godson Street, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Gough House, N1 Gough House is a block on Essex Road (Islington)
Grant Street, N1 The present Grant Street is the remnant of Warren Street, an L-shaped road running between Chapel Market and White Conduit Street, renamed Grant Street in 1936 (Islington)
Grantbridge Street, N1 Grantbridge Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Greenman Street, N1 Greenman Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area
Grendon House, N1 Grendon House is located on Collier Street (Islington)
Half Moon Crescent, N1 Half Moon Crescent is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Halton Cross Street, N1 Halton Cross Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Halton Road, N1 Halton Road is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area
Hanbury Mews, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Hanbury Mews, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Hanover Yard, N1 Hanover Yard is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Harvest Lodge, N1 Harvest Lodge a plain brick, four-storey block of flats was built in 1962 (Islington)
Haslam House, N1 Haslam House is located on Canonbury Road (Essex Road)
Havelock Street, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Hawes Street, N1 Hawes Street is a road in the N1 postcode area
Hawkwell Walk, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Hayward House, N1 Hayward House is a four-storey block of flats immediately north of St Silas’s Church (Islington)
Hedingham Close, N1 A street within the N1 postcode
Henry Place, N1 Henry Place predated the Barnsbury Estate (Islington)
Hermitage House, N1 Hermitage House is a block on Gerrard Road (Islington)
Holden House, N1 Holden House is a block on Popham Road (Islington)
Holland Passage, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Horse Yard, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Imber Street, N1 Imber Street is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Inwood House, N1 Inwood House is located on Elliott’s Place (Islington)
Island Apartments, N1 Island Apartments is a block on Prebend Street (Islington)
Isleden House, N1 Isleden House is a block on Prebend Street (Islington)
Islington Green, N1 Islington Green is both a small green and a series of roads which surround it (Angel)
James Morgan Mews, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
James’s Gardens, N1 James’s Gardens was established in the 1810s. (Angel)
Jays Street, N1 Jays Street dates from the 1950s reconfiguration of the area (Islington)
Jocelin House, N1 Jocelin House is located on Leirum Street (Islington)
John’s Place, N1 John’s Place lead through an archway to Charles Street (Islington)
Julius Nyerere Close, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Kenwrick House, N1 Kenwrick House is a block on Leirum Street (Islington)
Killick Street, N1 Killick Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Kings Quarter Apartments, N1 Kings Quarter Apartments is a block on Copenhagen Street (Islington)
Lambs Mews, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Laundry Lane, N1 A street within the N1 postcode
Lawrence Place, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Leirum Street, N1 The name of Leirum Street is the result of Muriel Street being split in half post-war (Islington)
Lincoln House, N1 Lincoln House is a block on Astey’s Row (Essex Road)
Linton Street, N1 Linton Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Liverpool Road, N1 Liverpool Road is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Lofting Road, N1 Lofting Road is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Barnsbury)
Lonsdale Place, N1 Lonsdale Place is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Barnsbury)
Lonsdale Square, N1 Lonsdale Square was built between 1838 and 1845, and was designed in Gothic Revival style by R. C. Carpenter (Barnsbury)
Lower Carriage Drive, N1 Lower Carriage Drive is a road in the W4 postcode area (Islington)
Malvern Terrace, N1 Malvern Terrace is a road in the N1 postcode area (Barnsbury)
Mandeville Houses, N1 Mandeville Houses, fronting Mantell Street and Liverpool Road was the earliest housing scheme built by Finsbury Borough Council (Islington)
Mantell Street, N1 Mantell Street, originally Sermon Lane, is now part of Tolpuddle Street (Islington)
Mary Street, N1 Mary Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Maryland Walk, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Matilda Street, N1 Matilda Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Mavor House, N1 Mavor House is a block on Jays Street (Islington)
Maygood Street, N1 Maygood Street is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Maynard House, N1 Maynard House is located on Penton Street (Islington)
Melville Place, N1 Melville Place is a road in the N1 postcode area (Essex Road)
Messiter House, N1 Messiter House is a block on Pultney Street (Islington)
Milner Place, N1 Milner Place is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Milner Square, N1 Thomas Milner (1806-84) was a politician and a friend of Benjamin Disraeli and Charles Dickens
Molton House, N1 Molton House is a block on Copenhagen Street (Islington)
Montanaro Court, N1 Montanaro Court is a block on Coleman Fields (Islington)
Moon Street, N1 Moon Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Moore Court, N1 Moore Court is a block on Andersons Square (Islington)
Morland Mews, N1 Morland Mews is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Barnsbury)
Muriel Street, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Napier Terrace, N1 Napier Terrace is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Newstead House, N1 Newstead House is sited on Liverpool Road (Islington)
Noble Yard, N1 Noble Yard is a yard lying off Charlton Place (Angel)
Noel Road, N1 Noel Road is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Northeast Place, N1 Northeast Place matched the adjacent Northwest Place (Angel)
Northwest Place, N1 Northwest Place, off Chapel Market, was formerly West Place (Angel)
Novello Court, N1 Novello Court is a block on Dibden Street (Islington)
Old Royal Free Place, N1 Old Royal Free Place was the entrance to an old hospital (Islington)
Old Royal Free Square, N1 Old Royal Free Square is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Olive Court, N1 Olive Court is a block on Liverpool Road (Islington)
Orkney House, N1 Orkney House is a building on Copenhagen Street (Islington)
Outram Place, N1 Outram Place is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Packington Square, N1 Packington Square is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Packington Street, N1 Packington Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Palmerston House, N1 Palmerston House is a block on St Paul Street (Islington)
Parkfield Street, N1 Parkfield Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Angel)
Payne House, N1 Payne House, along Charlotte Terrace and dating from 1937, is part of the Barnsbury Estate (Islington)
Payne Street, N1 Payne Street appeared on the map in 1837 (Islington)
Peabody Square, N1 Peabody Square is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Peabody Yard, N1 A street within the N1 postcode
Peldon Walk, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Pembroke Avenue, N1 Pembroke Avenue is the southern extension of Pembroke Street (Islington)
Peninsula Court, N1 Peninsula Court is a block on Basire Street (Islington)
Penton Grove, N1 The narrow loop of Penton Grove, now reduced to an L-shaped alley, was laid out on the site of one of the bowling greens belonging to Prospect House (Dobney’s). (Islington)
Penton House, N1 Penton House is a block on Hermes Street (Islington)
Penton Street, N1 Penton Street is a through-route leading on to the narrower Barnsbury Road which continues its line northwards into Islington (Islington)
Peter’s Street Mews, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Pied Bull Yard, N1 Pied Bull Yard is a small Islington turning (Islington)
Pierrepoint Arcade, N1 Pierrepoint Arcade is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Pierrepoint Row, N1 Pierrepoint Row is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Pierrepont Arcade, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Pleasant Place, N1 Pleasant Place is a road in the N1 postcode area (Essex Road)
PO Box 4, N1 Collins Yard is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
PO Box 4, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Popham Road, N1 Popham Road is a street in London (Islington)
Popham Street, N1 Popham Street is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Prebend Street, N1 Prebend Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Premier House, N1 Premier House is a block on Waterloo Terrace
Price House, N1 Price House is located on Britannia Row (Islington)
Pride Court, N1 Pride Court is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Angel)
Prince’s Yard, N1 Prince’s Yard is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Prospect House, N1 Prospect House is a block on Donegal Street (Islington)
Provence Street, N1 Provence Street is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Providence Court, N1 Providence Court is a block on Upper Street (Islington)
Providence Place, N1P Providence Place lies beside the Screen On The Green (Islington)
Pultney Street, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Queens Head Street, N1 Queens Head Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Raleigh Mews, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Raleigh Street, N1 Raleigh Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Rawreth Walk, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Rector Street, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Redmond House, N1 Redmond House is a building on Carnegie Street (Islington)
Rees Street, N1 Rees Street is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Regent House, N1 Regent House is a block on Florence Street (Islington)
Regent’s Canal Towpath, N1 Regent’s Canal Towpath lies along the canal of the same name (Islington)
Rheidol Mews, N1 Rheidol Mews is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Rheidol Terrace, N1 Rheidol Terrace is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Richmond Avenue, N1 Richmond Avenue is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Richmond Court, N1 Richmond Court is sited on Melville Place (Essex Road)
Ridgewell Close, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Risinghill Street, N1 Risinghill Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Ritchie Street, N1 Ritchie Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Ritson House, N1 Ritson House is a block on Caledonian Road (Islington)
River Place Health Centre, N1 River Place Health Centre is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Essex Road)
River Place, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Essex Road)
Rodin Court, N1 Rodin Court is a block on Essex Road (Islington)
Roding House, N1 Roding House is a residential block dating from the 1930s (Islington)
Rodney House, N1 Rodney House is sited on Donegal Street (Islington)
Rodney Street, N1 Rodney Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Rosemary Street, N1 Rosemary Street is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Rydon Street, N1 Rydon Street is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Samford House, N1 Samford House is a block on Charlotte Terrace (Islington)
Sebbon Street, N1 Sebbon Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area
Shalford Court, N1 Shalford Court is a block on Shalford Court (Angel)
Sheen Grove, N1 Sheen Grove is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Shelley Place, N1 Shelley Place is a location in London (Islington)
Shillingford Street, N1 Shillingford Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Shrubbery Close, N1 Shrubbery Close is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Southern Street, N1 Southern Street is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Southwood Smith Street, N1 Southwood Smith Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Spellbrook Walk, N1 Spellbrook Walk is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
St Albans Place, N1 St Albans Place was home to a famous Islington strong man (Islington)
St Katharine’s House, N1 St Katharine’s House is at the corner of Penton Street and the eastern stub of what had been Wynford Road until that street was cut off to its west by the large Half Moon Estate (Islington)
St Katharines House, N1 St Katharines House is a building on Barnsbury Road (Islington)
St Martin Of Tours House, N1 Residential block (Islington)
St Paul Street, N1 St Paul Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
St Peters Church Court, N1 St Peters Church Court can be found on Devonia Road (Islington)
St Peter’s Street, N1 Saint Peter’s Street runs between Essex Road and the Regent’s Canal (Islington)
St. Mary’s Path, N1 St. Mary’s Path is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
St. Pauls Road, N1 Baring Court is a block in N1 (Islington)
St. Peter’s Street, N1 Willow Walk is a small Islington side street (Islington)
Stanmore Street, N1 Stanmore Street runs west from Caledonian Road (Islington)
Steeple Walk, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Stonefield Street, N1 Stonefield Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Strang House, N1 Strang House is a block on Britannia Row (Islington)
Studd Street, N1 This is a street in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Terling Walk, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
The Boiler House, N1 The Boiler House is a block on Canonbury Villas
The Mall Camden Passage, N1 Charles Street in Islington disappeared under the Hilton hotel (Islington)
The Mews, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
The Old School House, N1 The Old School House is a block on Fowler Road (Islington)
The Precinct, N1 The Precinct is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Theberton Street, N1 Theberton Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Thornhill Bridge Wharf, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Thornhill Road, N1 Thornhill Road is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Barnsbury)
Thurston House, N1 Thurston House is a block on Leirum Street (Islington)
Tibberton Square, N1 A street within the N1 postcode
Tibberton Street, N1 A street within the N1 postcode
Tiber Gardens, N1 Tiber Gardens is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Tiverton House, N1 Tiverton House is a block on Pleasant Place (Essex Road)
Tolpuddle Street, N1 Tolpuddle Street is a more recent street of Islington (Islington)
Treaty Street, N1 Treaty Street was called London Street until 1938 (Islington)
Tressel Close, N1 Tressel Close is a road in the N1 postcode area
Tressell Close, N1 A street within the N1 postcode
Tudor Rose Building, N1 Tudor Rose Building is a block on Prebend Street (Islington)
Tufnell House, N1 Tufnell House is a building on Pleasant Place
Turnbull House, N1 Turnbull House is a block on Windsor Street (Islington)
Twyford Street, N1 Twyford Street is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Union Square, N1 Union Square is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Union Square, N1 Union Square (sometime Union Court) was approached by a narrow alley (Angel)
Upper Dengie Walk, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Upper Hawkwell Walk, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Upper Rawreth Walk, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Upper Street, N1 Upper Street begins at the junction of Pentonville Road and City Road, runs northwards past Angel, splits at Islington Green, ending at Highbury Corner (Islington)
Venn House, N1 Venn House is a block on Pultney Street (Islington)
Vibart Walk, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Vittoria House, N1 Vittoria House is a block on Charlotte Terrace (Islington)
Wakelin House, N1 Wakelin House is a block on Tressel Close
Walters House Road, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Warren Mews, N1 Warren Mews began in 1889 (Islington)
Water Tower Place, N1 Water Tower Place is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Waterloo Gardens, N1 Waterloo Gardens is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area
Waterloo Terrace, N1 A street within the N1 postcode
Wellington Square, N1 Wellington Square is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Wells House, N1 Wells House is a block on Upper Street (Islington)
Wheeler Gardens, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
White Conduit Street, N1 White Conduit Street was laid out and built up with houses and tenements from the mid-1790s (Islington)
White Horse Yard, N1 A street within the N1 postcode (Islington)
Wicks Place, N1 Wicks Place is a location in London (Islington)
William Congreve Mews, N1 William Congreve Mews is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Wilton Square, N1 This is a street in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Wilton Villas, N1 Wilton Villas is a road in the N1 postcode area (Islington)
Windsor Street, N1 Windsor Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
Wollaton House, N1 Wollaton House is a building on Batchelor Street (Islington)
Wontner Close, N1 A street within the N1 postcode
Wynford Road, N1 Wynford Road is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area (Islington)
York Way Court, N1 York Way Court is a block on York Way Court (Islington)

NEARBY PUBS
Blackhorse Road Cote is a licenced premise on Islington Green.
Fox on the Green The Fox on the Green is one of Islington’s oldest pubs.
The Joker of Penton Street The Joker of Penton Street was the Salmon and Compasses.
Tottenham High Road The Narrow Boat is a pub beside the Regents Canal.


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