Macdonald Road, N19

Macdonald Road is notable for a McDonald’s restaurant featuring on a corner.

Macdonald Road, N19
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Before 1938, it was called Brunswick Road - the ’Brunswick’ public house retained the name before the creation of a park swept it away.

Above its road sign is a plaque commemorating three World War One soldiers that died in the conflict and who lived on this street.

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

Alison

Archway

Added: 26 Jun 2022 18:20 GMT

On the dole in north London
When I worked at the dole office in Medina Road in the 1980s, "Archway" meant the social security offices which were in Archway Tower at the top of the Holloway Road. By all accounts it was a nightmare location for staff and claimants alike. This was when Margaret Thatcher’s government forced unemployment to rise to over 3 million (to keep wages down) and computerised records where still a thing of the future. Our job went from ensuring that unemployed people got the right sort and amount of benefits at the right time, to stopping as many people as possible from getting any sort of benefit at all. Britain changed irrevocably during this period and has never really recovered. We lost the "all in it together" frame of mind that had been born during the second world war and became the dog-eat-dog society where 1% have 95% of the wealth and many people can’t afford to feed their children. For me, the word Archway symbolises the land of lost content.

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Hornsey Lane (Archway) Bridge, 1900 Credit: London Transport Collection TUM image id: 1556882688 Licence:	Monroe House, New Orleans Walk on the New Orleans Estate, N19 (2021) TUM image id: 1627989960 Licence:	Construction at the Archway, Highgate (1900) (Not construction "of" the Archway, which happened earlier in the nineteenth century) Credit: Bishopsgate Institute TUM image id: 1557159039 Licence:	Lauderdale House, Highgate Lauderdale House was one of the finest country houses in Highgate and was originally built for Richard Martin (Lord Mayor of London) in 1582. In 1645 it came to Earl of Lauderdale (hence its name) as his wife’s inheritance. The house became a convalescent home for St. Bartholomew’s hospital in 1872.[3] In 1882 the then owner, Sir Sydney Waterlow, the famous printer, donated it ’for the enjoyment of Londoners’. It is a Grade II* listed building. Credit: ’Old and New London’ by Walter Thornbury TUM image id: 1630580172 Licence:	Highgate Hill, N19 TUM image id: 1466527830 Licence:
A rainy day in Holloway Credit: IG/@ilaria vi TUM image id: 1630968457 Licence:	The Gate House, Highgate (1820) This was situated at the crossroads on the brow at the top of Highgate Hill. TUM image id: 1640354609 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Little Green Street sign Credit: Wikimedia/IMS TUM image id: 1552945858 Licence:	Zoffany Street, N19 This road long gloried in its status as the last street alphabetically in London until pesky new Zulu Mews in Battersea stole its thunder Credit: Jen Pedler TUM image id: 1526082980 Licence:

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Hornsey Lane (Archway) Bridge, 1900
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Construction at the Archway, Highgate (1900) (Not construction "of" the Archway, which happened earlier in the nineteenth century)
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Lauderdale House, Highgate Lauderdale House was one of the finest country houses in Highgate and was originally built for Richard Martin (Lord Mayor of London) in 1582. In 1645 it came to Earl of Lauderdale (hence its name) as his wife’s inheritance. The house became a convalescent home for St. Bartholomew’s hospital in 1872.[3] In 1882 the then owner, Sir Sydney Waterlow, the famous printer, donated it ’for the enjoyment of Londoners’. It is a Grade II* listed building.
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Highgate Hill, N19
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