Dillon Place was a small street south of, and running parallel with, Kinloch Street.
In 1586, there was a weather-boarded house with a garden, orchard and a moat here called Lower Place. By 1721 it was an inn but this was demolished by 1871.
Claude Duval was a highwayman who used this house off Hornsey Road, between Dillon Place and Kinloch Street, as hideout. Duval was known as the ’Ladies Highwayman’ being gallant to them while he robbed the menfolk. Many women were said to have mourned his demise.
His reputation was such that this section of Hornsey Road became called Duval’s Lane. Charles Samuel Keene (1823-1891), the Punch illustrator, was born in "Duval’s Lane, Hornsey".
Dillon Place, a small side street off of Hornsey Road, was built around the 1880s. In 1904, two people from Dillon Place were listed as having perished in a smallpox epidemic.
On VE Day (1945), Dillon Place was described as hosting a ’Fire Guard party’ but it seems to have disappeared from the map of London by the late 1950s, being later replaced by the Sobell Leisure Centre.
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Dillon Place was a small street south of, and running parallel with, Kinloch Street.
