Aberdeen Park, N5

Aberdeen Park was first laid out between 1853 and 1854.

It was named after George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784-1860), First Lord of the Treasury (Prime Minister) from December 1852 to January 1855.

In 1806 most of the site was simply fields, Ten Acres and Nineteen Acres owned by Francis Masseres and occupied by Samuel Palmer. In 1848 they were called Great Field and Little Field, over fourteen acres, the property of George Morrice.

A smaller part of Aberdeen Park was owned in 1806 by a Mr Mallett and occupied by a Captain Agnew with a ’house, offices and pleasure grounds’, the same portion in 1848 being owned by John Foster.

After 1877, there was agricultural land - the Aberdeen Park Nursery - occupied as a horticultural nursery in 1904 by W. Clinton and then Frederick James Clinton was there as a nurseryman until 1935. Aberdeen Court is now on the site.

In December 1934 the Islington & Holloway Press described Aberdeen Park as being owned by Canon W. D. Morrice who had offered it for sale to builders. It was described as a ’quiet secluded area where are to be found some of the biggest houses in Highbury with its tennis courts ... a refuge for people in Highbury . . . and a joy in summer.’ Its main gate was then to the private park facing Highbury Fields and it was described as one of the few private parks left in London. It was, however, being hedged in gradually by factories and other buildings.

Some of Aberdeen Park’s houses were renumbered in the 1864-5 period and again 1933-4.

An OS map of 1954 shows nos. 9 to 10 as the Ashdown Hotel with a tennis court at its rear, and Aberdeen Lane, which later was on a similar map for 1894/6 as Aberdeen Mews.

The following blocks are located in Aberdeen Park: Aberdeen Court (dating from 1907-8 and extended in both 1924 and 1930), Beaconsfield Lodge (1982), Cynthia House (1953), Escuan Lodge (1963), Faithfull House (1953), Graham Robertson House (1953), Mostyn Lodge (1964), Newcombe House (1953) and The Woodlands (1964).

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Highbury Corner TUM image id: 1489497654 Licence:	Clissold Park is an open space in Stoke Newington. It is bounded by Greenway Close (to the north), Stoke Newington Church Street (to the south) and Green Lanes (west) and Queen Elizabeth’s Walk (east). It was named by the Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington, which was the local authority when the park was established. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1616780666 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:	Highbury New Park (1910) TUM image id: 1466548663 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:
Paradise Row, Stoke Newington Church Street. These houses all originally had names. From the left: Paradise House, Dunwood House, Baxter Lodge, Vincent House, Warwick House, Kennaway Hall. The Kennaway Estate was largely built on the site in the 1970s. This section of the New River in Clissold Park was drained in 1958. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1688395254 Licence:

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