please empty your brain below
Sidetracked with Andrew Peter Martin’s excellent photos too.
I have been to visit a few times.
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The library is not the best example of Edwardian architecture. I'd happily believe it was an early electricity sub-station rather than a bibliophile's delight.
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Fascinating, thanks. Inspired to visit Barnsbury Wood now.
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An absorbing post - especially the wooden chicken - thankyou! I need to revise my view of Islington as monolithic, beige and drab.
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Also on the Thornhill Estate, on Richmond Avenue, front doors flanked, by Egyptian sphinxes.
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Thank you for following my suggestion.
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Nice write up. I used to live on the Caledonian Road just at the canal, and would often walk the back streets of Barnsbury and through this square many times.
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Your mention of the Bemerton estate prompted me to visit the adjacent Crumbles Castle. it is currently surrounded by barriers during a refurbishment of the playground of which it forms a part. For those who don’t know the Castle is a substantial tower built in 1971 by architecture students using cobbles from locally demolished tenements.
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Rob Smith from "Footprints of London" does an excellent "Squares of Islington" guided walk.
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There's also an excellent guided walk from Philip at London Walks called 'Up the Cally' which starts at King's Cross and finishes at Caledonian Road underground station. It's a good way to get a feel for the contrasts along either side of what is not your usual tourist route. They only run it on occasional Sundays, and the next one isn't until March.
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I can put you in touch with someone who does live on the square, and who isn't wealthy (although has lived there a long time).
I have been to visit a few times. |
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