Gillespie Road, N5

Gillespie Road runs east–west along the north side of Arsenal Stadium.

Arsenal underground station was called Gillespie Road before rebuilding in the 1930s.
Credit: Arsenal FC

Gillespie Road dates from the 1870 as a spate of building transformed the area.

Part of the course of Hackney Brook ran along Gillespie Road. The stream rises near Mercers Road, running south to cross Holloway Road and then continuing to Lowman Road, where it turns north-east and runs along Gillespie Road to Mountgrove Road.

Gillespie Road station was opened in 1906, granting access to St John`s Divinity College, Highbury Hill, as well as serving the surrounding streets of St Thomas’s Road, Avenell Road and Blackstock Road. Rows of terraced houses were just beginning to appear in this part of London, justifying the station.

Gillespie Road station was renamed to ’Arsenal’ in 1932 after pressure from the football club - the Gillespie Road name is still displayed on the original Edwardian platform tiling. The new stadium lies now to the west of the street.

Many small works and businesses appeared in Gillespie Road during the 1930s.

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Finsbury Park platform art Credit: Annabel Grey TUM image id: 1602070648 Licence:	Amwell Court Built by Stoke Newington Borough Council on a bomb site. Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1686928735 Licence:	Highbury New Park (1910) TUM image id: 1466548663 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Roth Walk on the Andover Estate in Holloway (2007) The estate is a large Islington borough council housing estate which is flanked by Hornsey Road, Seven Sisters Road, Durham Road and Birnam Road. Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1624532012 Licence:	Queen’s Drive, N4 with its typical turn-of-the-twentieth-century architecture stretches south east from Finsbury Park. Credit: GoArt/The Underground Map TUM image id: 1624883072 Licence:
Honeyfield in a block on the 1960s Six Acres Estate and a groound floor flat here was the boyhood home of John Lydon of the Sex Pistols Credit: GoArt/The Underground Map TUM image id: 1624884271 Licence:	The Honeyfield block on Carville Street, N4 (2021) Carville Street in 1973 replaced a previous Carville Street, flattened in the previous year. Credit: GoArt/The Underground Map TUM image id: 1624537752 Licence:	Campbell Road a.k.a. “The Bunk” in Finsbury Park (1919) Described as the most dangerous London road in the early 1900s, most of the houses were originally built in the mid 19th century for the expected arrival of the middle classes. Instead the migration from the countryside as farming jobs disappeared soon filled these properties with sometimes 16 mixed families per house. Most of the area was pulled down to build the Andover Estate in the 1950s. TUM image id: 1707498122 Licence:	Playford Road (1950) This marvellous photo was featured in ’When I Were A Lad’, a book by Andrew Davies Credit: Hulton-Deutsch Collection TUM image id: 1563990940 Licence:	William Patten, the first Lord of the Manor of Stoke Newington TUM image id: 1687168094 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Pawnbroker, 201 Seven Sisters Road, Finsbury Park, c. 1910 Credit: Bishopsgate Institute TUM image id: 1665669793 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Drayton Park station in its Northern Line days Drayton Park was opened by the Great Northern & City Railway (GN&CR) on 14 February 1904. Although the Victoria line does not serve Drayton Park, its construction during the 1960s had a significant impact on the station. The City Line tunnels north of Drayton Park were closed on 3 October 1964 and were reused by the Victoria line, which was connected to them south of Finsbury Park. Drayton Park became the northern terminus of the City line, which later became known as the Northern line Highbury Branch. On 4 October 1975 the line was closed and ceased to be part of the London Underground. The line was transferred to British Rail. TUM image id: 1621895160 Licence:

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Finsbury Park platform art
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Queen’s Drive, N4 with its typical turn-of-the-twentieth-century architecture stretches south east from Finsbury Park.
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Pawnbroker, 201 Seven Sisters Road, Finsbury Park, c. 1910
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