Romilly Road, N4

Romilly Road is a road in the N4 postcode area

Click here to explore another London street
We now have 666 completed street histories and 46834 partial histories
Find streets or residential blocks within the M25 by clicking STREETS

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

David Gleeson Campbell Road, N4 Added: 7 Apr 2023 22:19 GMT	MBE from Campbell Bunk (1897 - 1971) Walter Smith born at 43 Campbell Bunk was awarded the MBE in january honours list in 1971. A local councillor for services to the public. Reply
Ian Doucet Campbell Road, N4 Added: 28 Jul 2023 16:31 GMT	Campbell Road, N4 Robert James, a great-uncle of mine, was born at 90 Campbell Rd, on 17 March 1899, youngest of Christina James (nee Potter) my great grandmother’s 6 children. Every child was born at a different Islington address. Seems like with the move to Campbell Rd they werent going up in the world, and a Joseph Hickie or Hicks was living with them. Anyone know of any photos of Campbell Rd at this time? Reply
Janet Creed (nee Burke) Campbell Road, N4 Added: 31 Aug 2017 14:46 GMT	Campbell road My father was William Burke, 74 Campbell road n4 my mother was May wright of Campbell road, I was born on 13.02.1953, we stayed with my grandparents in Campbell Road, William and Maggie Wright. Reply

LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

Farm Place, W8 Added: 2 May 2024 16:14 GMT	Farm Place, W8 The previous name of Farm Place was Ernest St (no A) Reply
Tony Whipple Frank Whipple Place, E14 Added: 16 Apr 2024 21:35 GMT	Frank Whipple Place, E14 Frank was my great-uncle, I’d often be ’babysat’ by Peggy while Nan and Dad went to the pub. Peggy was a marvel, so full of life. My Dad and Frank didn’t agree on most politics but everyone in the family is proud of him. A genuinely nice, knowledgable bloke. One of a kind. Reply
Theresa Penney Whites Row, E1 Added: 16 Apr 2024 18:08 GMT	1 Whites Row My 2 x great grandparents and his family lived here according to the 1841 census. They were Dutch Ashkenazi Jews born in Amsterdam at the beginning of the 19th century but all their children were born in Spitalfields. Reply
Wendy The Polygon Added: 22 Mar 2024 15:33 GMT	Polygon Buildings Following the demolition of the Polygon, and prior to the construction of Oakshott Court in 1974, 4 tenement type blocks of flats were built on the site at Clarendon Sq/Phoenix Rd called Polygon Buildings. These were primarily for people working for the Midland Railway and subsequently British Rail. My family lived for 5 years in Block C in the 1950s. It seems that very few photos exist of these buildings. Reply
Steve Charleville Circus, SE26 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 Reply
Steve Charleville Circus, SE26 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 Reply
Charles Hornsey Rise, N19 Added: 8 Mar 2024 20:45 GMT	My House I want to know who lived in my house in the 1860’s. Reply
NH Woodgrange Road, E7 Added: 7 Mar 2024 11:41 GMT	Telephone House Donald Hunter House, formerly Telephone House, was the BT Offices closed in 2000 Reply

LOCAL PHOTOS

Click here to see map view of nearby Creative Commons images
Click here to see Creative Commons images near to this postcode
Click here to see Creative Commons images tagged with this road (if applicable)

Finsbury Park platform art Credit: Annabel Grey TUM image id: 1602070648 Licence:	Arsenal underground station was called Gillespie Road before rebuilding in the 1930s. Alas, at the same time as the renaming, the station was remodelled to its modern, more brutalist, form. Credit: Arsenal FC TUM image id: 1624869671 Licence:	Looking north up Seven Sisters Road at Finsbury Park on 26 July 1932. The photo looks towards Manor House. Stroud Green Road is on left followed by the trees of Finsbury Park. Cars are coming out on right from Blackstock Road. Credit: Fox Photos/Getty Images TUM image id: 1622646370 Licence:	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:
Allerton Walk is a 1970s development off Durham Road, N7 Credit: GoArt/The Underground Map TUM image id: 1624541534 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:
Amwell Court Built by Stoke Newington Borough Council on a bomb site. Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1686928735 Licence:	Postcard from the turn of the twentieth century titled ’Finsbury Park - A shady walk’ Old London postcard TUM image id: 1620384187 Licence:	Seven Sisters Road and Woodberry Down (1895) Credit: Hackney Library Services TUM image id: 1624018328 Licence:

In the neighbourhood...

Click an image below for a better view...

Finsbury Park platform art
Credit: Annabel Grey
Licence:

Arsenal underground station was called Gillespie Road before rebuilding in the 1930s. Alas, at the same time as the renaming, the station was remodelled to its modern, more brutalist, form.
Credit: Arsenal FC
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
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.
Licence:

Pawnbroker, 201 Seven Sisters Road, Finsbury Park, c. 1910
Credit: Bishopsgate Institute
Licence: CC BY 2.0

MAP YEAR:	1750	1800	1810	1820	1830	1860	1900	1950	2024	Show map without markers
	Use the control in the top right of the map above to view this area on another historic map