Northstand Apartments, N5

Northstand Apartments is a block on Northstand Apartments.

Gillespie Road tiling at Arsenal station.

Originally known as Gillespie Road, Arsenal tube station was renamed in 1932 after Arsenal Football Club, who at the time played at the nearby Arsenal Stadium. It is the only Tube station named directly after a football club.
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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

Vanessa Whitehouse

Ashburton Grove, N7

Added: 17 Feb 2021 22:48 GMT

Born here
My dad 1929 John George Hall

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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
Paul Cox Aldine Street, W12 Added: 5 Mar 2024 22:18 GMT	War damage reinstatement plans of No’s 11 & 13 Aldine Street Whilst clearing my elderly Mothers house of general detritus, I’ve come across original plans (one on acetate) of No’s 11 & 13 Aldine Street. Might they be of interest or should I just dispose of them? There are 4 copies seemingly from the one single acetate example. Seems a shame to just junk them as the level of detail is exquisite. No worries if of no interest, but thought I’d put it out there. Reply

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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:	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:
Thats educasion Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1624544493 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:
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: