The Courtyard, N1

A street within the N1 postcode

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

Lena White Conduit Street, N1 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. Reply
Carol Gifford Street, N1 Added: 7 May 2021 18:44 GMT	Nan My nan lily,her sister Elizabeth and their parents Elizabeth and William lived here in1911 Reply
Jeff Owen Owen Street, EC1V Added: 20 Mar 2021 16:18 GMT	Owen’s School Owen Street is the site of Owen’s Boys’ School. The last school was built in 1881 and was demolished in the early 1990s to make way for the development which stand there today. It was a “Direct Grant” grammar school and was founded in 1613 by Dame Alice Owen. What is now “Owen’s Fields” was the playground between the old school and the new girls’ school (known then as “Dames Alice Owen’s School” or simply “DAOS”). The boys’ school had the top two floors of that building for their science labs. The school moved to Potters Bar in Hertfordshire in 1971 and is now one of the top State comprehensive schools in the country. The old building remained in use as an accountancy college and taxi-drivers’ “knowledge” school until it was demolished. The new building is now part of City and Islington College. Owen’s was a fine school. I should know because I attended there from 1961 to 1968. Reply
Reg Carr Elstree Street, N1C Added: 10 Feb 2021 12:11 GMT	Campbellite Meeting In 1848 the Campbellites (Disciples of Christ) met in Elstree Street, where their congregation was presided over by a pastor named John Black. Their appointed evangelist at the time was called David King, who later became the Editor of the British Millennial Harbinger. The meeting room was visited in July 1848 by Dr John Thomas, who spoke there twice on his two-year ’mission’ to Britain. Reply
Vanessa Whitehouse Ashburton Grove, N7 Added: 17 Feb 2021 22:48 GMT	Born here My dad 1929 John George Hall Reply

LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

Peter H Davies Ethelburga Street, SW11 Added: 17 Jun 2021 09:33 GMT	Ethelburga Estate The Ethelburga Estate - named after Ethelburga Road - was an LCC development dating between 1963–65. According to the Wikipedia, it has a "pleasant knitting together of a series of internal squares". I have to add that it’s extremely dull :) Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Reply
Norman Norrington Blechynden Street, W10 Added: 8 Jun 2021 08:08 GMT	Blechynden Street, W10 Lived here #40 1942-1967 Reply
Brenda Newton Hewer Street, W10 Added: 5 Jun 2021 07:17 GMT	Hewer Street W10 John Nodes Undertakers Hewer Street W10 Reply
All bar one Added: 3 Jun 2021 15:50 GMT	All Bar One The capitalisation is wrong Reply
Morley Road, IG11 Added: 2 Jun 2021 16:58 GMT	Parachute bomb 1941 Charles Thomas Bailey of 82 Morley Road was killed by the parachute bomb March 1941 Reply
Abbeville Road, SW4 Added: 1 Jun 2021 12:41 GMT	Abbeville Road (1940 street directory) North west side 1A Clarke A S Ltd, motor engineers 15 Plumbers, Glaziers & Domestic Engineers Union 25 Dixey Edward, florist 27 Vicary Miss Doris J, newsagent 29 Stenning John Andrew, dining rooms 31 Clarke & Williams, builders 33 Hill Mrs Theodora, confectioner 35 Golding W & sons, corn dealers ... here is Shandon road ... 37 Pennington Mrs Eliz Harvie, wine & spirit merchant 39 Westminster Catering Co Ltd, ham, beef & tongue dealers 41 Masters A (Clapham) Ltd, butchers 43 Thomas Euan Ltd, grocers 45 Garrett C T & Co Ltd, undertakers 47 Mayle T & Sons, fishmongers 49 Mayles Ltd, fruiterers 51 & 73 Hardy Arthur Sydney, draper 53 United Dairies (London) Ltd ... here is Narbonne avenue ... 55 Norris William Lennox, baker 57 Silver Star Laundry Ltd 59 Thorp John, oilman 61 Bidgood Leonard George, boot makers 63 Wilkie Rt Miln, chemist 65 Gander George Albert Isaac, hairdresser 67 Harris Alfred William, greengrocer 69 & 71 Lambert Ernest & Son Ltd, grocers ... here is Hambolt road ... 73 & 51 Hardy Arthur Sydney, draper 75 Cambourn Frederick, butcher 77 Siggers Clement, chemist 77 Post, Money Order, Telephone Call & Telegraph Office & Savings Bank 79 Hemmings William, baker ... here is Elms road ... 85 Cornish Joseph 91 Bedding Mrs 151 Johnson Mrs H K 157 Robinson Albert Ernest, grainer 173 Yardleys London & Provincial Stores Ltd, wine & spirit merchants 175 Clark Alfred, butcher 175A Morley Douglas Frederick, confectioner ... here is Crescent lane ... ... her is St Alphonsus road ... South east side ... here is Trouville road ... 4 Bossy Miss, private school ... here are Bonneville gardens ... 24 Osborn Charles Edward, ladies hairdresser 24 Hall H Ltd, builders 24A Walton Lodge Laundry Ltd ... here are Shandon road & Abbeville mansions ... 28 Copley Fred Smith, chemist 30 Finch H G Ltd, laundry 32 Carter William Alfred, furniture dealer 34 Spriggs Charles & Co, wireless supplies dealer 36 Miles Frederick William, confectioner 38 Pitman Frederick, hairdresser 40 Rowe Frederick F, valeting service 42 Modridge Edward J, oilman ... here is Narbonne avenue ... 44 Southorn Albert, butcher 46 Brown Ernest, fruiterer 48 Stanley Mrs A A, confectioner 50 Fryatt Owen, delixatessen store 52 Benbrooks, domestic stores 54 Davis William Clifford, boot repairer 56 Blogg Alfred, newsagent 58 Rowlands Thomas & Sons, dairy ... here are Hambalt, Elms, Franconia, Caldervale & Leppoc roads ... 124 Clarke Frederick, decorator ... here are Crescent lane, Briarwood road & Park hill ... Reply
Boo Horton Stepney Green, E1 Added: 31 May 2021 13:39 GMT	Angel & Trumpet, Stepney Green The Angel & Trumpet Public House in Stepney Green was run by my ancestors in the 1930’s. Unfortunately, it was a victim on WWII and was badly damaged and subsequently demolished. I have one photograph that I believe to bethe pub, but it doesn’t show much more that my Great Aunt cleaning the steps. Reply
MCNALLY Blackfriars Added: 17 May 2021 09:42 GMT	Blackfriars (1959 - 1965) I lived in Upper Ground from 1959 to 1964 I was 6 years old my parents Vince and Kitty run the Pub The Angel on the corner of Upper Ground and Bodies Bridge. I remember the ceiling of the cellar was very low and almost stretched the length of Bodies Bridge. The underground trains run directly underneath the pub. If you were down in the cellar when a train was coming it was quite frightening Reply

NEARBY STREETS

Airdrie Close, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Airdrie Close, N1

Albion Mews, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Albion Mews, N1

Arundel Place, N1 Arundel Place is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Arundel Place, N1

Arundel Square, N7 Arundel Square is one of the streets of London in the N7 postal area.

Arundel Square, N7

Augustas Lane, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Augustas Lane, N1

Barnsbury Grove, N7 This is a street in the N7 postcode area

Barnsbury Grove, N7

Barnsbury Park, N1 Barnsbury Park is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Barnsbury Park, N1

Barnsbury Square, N1 Barnsbury Square is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Barnsbury Square, N1

Barnsbury Street, N1 Barnsbury Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Barnsbury Street, N1

Barnsbury Terrace, N1 Barnsbury Terrace is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Barnsbury Terrace, N1

Belitha Villas, N1 Belitha Villas is a road in the N1 postcode area

Belitha Villas, N1

Bewdley Street, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Bewdley Street, N1

Bingfield Street, N1 Bingfield Street is a road in the N1 postcode area

Bingfield Street, N1

Blundell Street, N7 Blundell Street is one of the streets of London in the N7 postal area.

Blundell Street, N7

Boxworth Grove, N1 Boxworth Grove is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Boxworth Grove, N1

Bramwell Mews, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Bramwell Mews, N1

Brayfield Terrace, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Brayfield Terrace, N1

Bride Street, N7 Bride Street is one of the streets of London in the N7 postal area.

Bride Street, N7

Bridgeman Road, N1 Bridgeman Road is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Bridgeman Road, N1

Brooksby Mews, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Brooksby Mews, N1

Brooksby Street, N1 Brooksby Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Brooksby Street, N1

Bunning Way, N1 Bunning Way is one of the streets of London in the N7 postal area.

Bunning Way, N1

Carfree Close, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Carfree Close, N1

Carnoustie Drive, N1 Carnoustie Drive is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Carnoustie Drive, N1

Centurion Close, N7 Centurion Close follows the line of the former Cumberland Street (Ponder Street).

Centurion Close, N7

Coatbridge House, N1 Residential block

Coatbridge House, N1

College Cross, N1 College Cross is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

College Cross, N1

Conistone Way, N7 Conistone Way is a road in the N7 postcode area

Conistone Way, N7

Cornelia Street, N7 Cornelia Street is a road in the N7 postcode area

Cornelia Street, N7

Court Gardens, N7 Court Gardens is a road in the N7 postcode area

Court Gardens, N7

Cowdenbeath Path, N1 Cowdenbeath Path is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Cowdenbeath Path, N1

Crescent Street, N1 Crescent Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Crescent Street, N1

Davey Close, N7 Davey Close is one of the streets of London in the N7 postal area.

Davey Close, N7

Diarmid Road, N20 Diarmid Road is a location in London.

Diarmid Road, N20

Dowrey Street, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Dowrey Street, N1

Drummond Way, N7 A street within the N1 postcode

Drummond Way, N7

Earlsferry Way, N1 Earlsferry Way is a road in the N1 postcode area

Earlsferry Way, N1

Edwards Mews, N1 Edwards Mews is a road in the N1 postcode area

Edwards Mews, N1

Ellington Street, N7 This is a street in the EC1R postcode area

Ellington Street, N7

Epping Place, N1 Epping Place is a road in the N1 postcode area

Epping Place, N1

Eton Mews, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Eton Mews, N1

Faraday Close, N7 Faraday Close is a road in the N7 postcode area

Faraday Close, N7

Ferriby Close, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Ferriby Close, N1

Francis Walk, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Francis Walk, N1

Frederica Street, N7 Frederica Street is a road in the N7 postcode area

Frederica Street, N7

Freeling Street, N1 Freeling Street is a road in the N1 postcode area

Freeling Street, N1

Gissing Walk, N1 Gissing Walk is a road in the N1 postcode area

Gissing Walk, N1

Haslam Close, N1 Haslam Close is a road in the N1 postcode area

Haslam Close, N1

Haven Mews, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Haven Mews, N1

Hemingford Road, N1 Hemingford Road is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Hemingford Road, N1

Highbury Station Road, N1 Highbury Station Road is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Highbury Station Road, N1

Huntingdon Street, N1 Huntingdon Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Huntingdon Street, N1

Islington Park Street, N1 This is a street in the N7 postcode area

Islington Park Street, N1

Joiners Yard, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Joiners Yard, N1

Joseph Mews, N7 A street within the N7 postcode

Joseph Mews, N7

Kember Street, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Kember Street, N1

Kerwick Close, N7 Kerwick Close is a road in the N7 postcode area

Kerwick Close, N7

King’s Court, N7 King’s Court is a road in the N7 postcode area

King’s Court, N7

Kinross House, N1 Residential block

Kinross House, N1

Lambert Street, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Lambert Street, N1

Langford Mews, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Langford Mews, N1

Laycock Street, N1 Laycock Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Laycock Street, N1

Legion Close, N1 Legion Close is a road in the N1 postcode area

Legion Close, N1

Lionswood, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Lionswood, N1

Liverpool Road, N1 Liverpool Road is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Liverpool Road, N1

Lofting Road, N1 Lofting Road is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Lofting Road, N1

Lonsdale Place, N1 Lonsdale Place is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Lonsdale Place, N1

Lonsdale Square, N1 Lonsdale Square was built between 1838 and 1845, and was designed in Gothic Revival style by R. C. Carpenter.

Lonsdale Square, N1

Lyon Street, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Lyon Street, N1

Malvern Terrace, N1 Malvern Terrace is a road in the N1 postcode area

Malvern Terrace, N1

Milner Place, N1 Milner Place is a road in the N1 postcode area

Milner Place, N1

Milner Square, N1 Thomas Milner (1806-84) was a politician and a friend of Benjamin Disraeli and Charles Dickens

Milner Square, N1

Mitchell House, N1 Residential block

Mitchell House, N1

Morland Mews, N1 Morland Mews is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Morland Mews, N1

Mountfort Crescent, N1 Mountfort Crescent is a road in the N1 postcode area

Mountfort Crescent, N1

Mountfort House, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Mountfort House, N1

Mountfort Terrace, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Mountfort Terrace, N1

North West Road, N1 North West Road is a road in the E9 postcode area

North West Road, N1

Offord Road, N1 Offord Road is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Offord Road, N1

Offord Road, N1 Offord Road is a road in the N7 postcode area

Offord Road, N1

Offord Street, N1 Offord Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Offord Street, N1

Peacock Place, N1 Peacock Place is a road in the N1 postcode area

Peacock Place, N1

Pembroke Avenue, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Pembroke Avenue, N1

Pembroke Street, N1 Pembroke Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Pembroke Street, N1

Pembroke Street, N1 Pembroke Street is a road in the N7 postcode area

Pembroke Street, N1

Purley Place, N1 Purley Place is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Purley Place, N1

Richmond Avenue, N1 Richmond Avenue is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Richmond Avenue, N1

Richmond Avenue, N1 Richmond Avenue is a road in the NW2 postcode area

Richmond Avenue, N1

Richmond Crescent, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Richmond Crescent, N1

Ripplevale Grove, N1 Ripplevale Grove is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Ripplevale Grove, N1

Roman Way Industrial Estate, N1 Roman Way Industrial Estate is one of the streets of London in the N7 postal area.

Roman Way Industrial Estate, N1

Roman Way, N7 Roman Way is one of the streets of London in the N7 postal area.

Roman Way, N7

Sheen Grove, N1 Sheen Grove is a road in the N1 postcode area

Sheen Grove, N1

St Clements Street, N7 St Clements Street is one of the streets of London in the N7 postal area.

St Clements Street, N7

Stanmore Street, N1 Stanmore Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Stanmore Street, N1

Sterling Way, N7 Sterling Way is a location in London.

Sterling Way, N7

Stonefield Street, N1 Stonefield Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Stonefield Street, N1

Story Street, N1 Story Street is a road in the N1 postcode area

Story Street, N1

Stranraer Way, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Stranraer Way, N1

Tayport Close, N1 Tayport Close is a road in the N1 postcode area

Tayport Close, N1

Thornhill Crescent, N1 Thornhill Crescent is a road in the N1 postcode area

Thornhill Crescent, N1

Thornhill Grove, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Thornhill Grove, N1

Thornhill Road, N1 Thornhill Road is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Thornhill Road, N1

Thornhill Square, N1 Thornhill Square is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Thornhill Square, N1

Tilloch Street, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Tilloch Street, N1

Waterloo Gardens, N1 Waterloo Gardens is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Waterloo Gardens, N1

Wellington Mews, N7 Wellington Mews is a road in the N7 postcode area

Wellington Mews, N7

Wheelwright Street, N7 Wheelwright Street was built for prison wardens and other staff.

Wheelwright Street, N7

NEARBY PUBS

Doyles Tavern This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Doyles Tavern

Duchess Of Kent This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Duchess Of Kent

Kennedy’s This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Kennedy’s

Meltdown This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Meltdown

The Albion This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Albion

The Drapers Arms This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Drapers Arms

The Hop and Berry This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Hop and Berry

The Jolly Sisters This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Jolly Sisters

The Regent This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Regent

Barnsbury

Barnsbury is a place in the London Borough of Islington. The name is a corruption of Bernersbury, being so called after the Berners family, who gained ownership of the lands after the Norman Conquest.

By the end of the 18th century, Barnsbury, like other parts of Islington, was being regarded as attractive part-rural suburbs by the comparatively wealthy people wanting to move out of the cramped City of London and industrial Clerkenwell.

The area is close to the City, and had strong local trade in its position as the first staging post for travellers making the journey from London to the north, and with considerable agricultural traffic and cattle driving to the nearby Smithfield cattle market in the City.

LOCAL PHOTOS

The exterior of the Agricultural Hall in Islington (1861). TUM image id: 1488644663 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Highbury Corner TUM image id: 1489497654 Licence: CC BY 2.0	A line of children hold hands as they walk along the middle of White Conduit Street towards the junction with Chapel Market in Islington. Credit: John Gay/Historic England TUM image id: 1488642453 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Grand Theatre, Islington High Street (1903) TUM image id: 1557151038 Licence: CC BY 2.0	White Conduit House, and the conduit head from which it was named, 1827 Credit: Robert Chambers (1832) TUM image id: 1488984516 Licence: CC BY 2.0
The Camden Head, Islington This is a glorious old gin palace-style pub behind Upper Street, in existence since the 18th century. Credit: Flickr/Ewan Munro TUM image id: 1622558868 Licence:	The Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington (1861). View from Liverpool Road. Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1622555891 Licence:	Islington Green (1905). That is Upper Street, leading to Highbury Corner. To the right of the green but just out of the picture would be Essex Road (formerly Lower Road) Old London postcard TUM image id: 1622547926 Licence:	Risinghill Street, N1 TUM image id: 1467032267 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Photographer John Gay captured this image of a line of children holding hands as they walk along the middle of White Conduit Street towards the junction with Chapel Market in Islington in the 1950s. Credit: John Gay TUM image id: 1604507834 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Wilsham Street, W11 Charles Booth’s poverty map placed the Kensington Potteries among the "criminal and irreclaimable areas", largely on account of the overcrowded condition of its unsuitable and derelict houses. Five short streets in the district became known as the "Special Area.": Bangor Street, Crescent Street and three roads that have been renamed. St. Clement’s, now called Sirdar Road, St. Katherine’s Road, now Wilsham Street, and William, now Kenley Street. TUM image id: 1490049901 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The former Pentonville Cottages awaiting demolition Credit: London Metropolitan Archives TUM image id: 1602410443 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The third Grand Theatre, Islington (1903). This was built on the site of the former Philharmonic Hall and two previous Grand Theatres TUM image id: 1587741263 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Drayton Park station in its Northern Line days. TUM image id: 1621895160 Licence:

In the neighbourhood...

Click an image below for a better view...

The Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington (1861). View from Liverpool Road.
Credit: Wiki Commons
Licence:
To View or share the image, go to its dedicated web page

Wilsham Street, W11 Charles Booth’s poverty map placed the Kensington Potteries among the "criminal and irreclaimable areas", largely on account of the overcrowded condition of its unsuitable and derelict houses. Five short streets in the district became known as the "Special Area.": Bangor Street, Crescent Street and three roads that have been renamed. St. Clement’s, now called Sirdar Road, St. Katherine’s Road, now Wilsham Street, and William, now Kenley Street.
Licence: CC BY 2.0
To View or share the image, go to its dedicated web page

The former Pentonville Cottages awaiting demolition
Credit: London Metropolitan Archives
Licence: CC BY 2.0
To View or share the image, go to its dedicated web page