Historic Site
The First
Asian Elected
To The House Of
Commons Was
Dadabhai Naoroji
He Represented
Central Finsbury
For The Liberal
Party From
1892-1895 — — Map (db m118772) HM
A brief history of Duncan Terrace Gardens
Duncan Terrace Gardens form an important link in the New River Walk series of green spaces. The New River was an open water conduit built in 1613 to bring drinking water from Hertfordshire to London. . . . — — Map (db m118728) HM
Borough of Finsbury
In the Name of God the Most High
and to Enshrine in Perpetual
Love and Reverence the Glorious
Memory of the Men of This
Borough Who in Death Made the
Supreme Sacrifice for Their King,
Their Country, and Their . . . — — Map (db m118347) WM
First World War
Islington 1914-1918
This plaque commemorates the men who lived in this
street and lost their lives in the First World War
Harry G. Brookes: aged 26
Died of wounds, 5 January 1918, in England
Horace C. Dunn: aged 39 . . . — — Map (db m116910) HM
First World War
Islington 1914-1918
This plaque commemorates the men who lived in this street and lost their lives in the First World War
James L. Blake: aged 20 Killed in action, 25 September 1917, in Belgium · Thomas L. Blake: aged 24 . . . — — Map (db m121931) WM
First World War
Islington 1914-1918
This plaque commemorates the men who lived in this street and lost their lives in the First World War
Henry S. Lowry: aged 27 Died of wounds, 13 April 1918, in France
Leslie W. Thacker: aged 20 Died of . . . — — Map (db m121932) WM
London Borough of Islington
Mary Wollstonecraft
1759 – 1797
Writer, teacher and feminist
Opened a school for girls
near this site in 1784 — — Map (db m120420) HM
Building Memories A Guide to Newington Green Islington
1480 Medieval village in Middlesex Forest clearing
1500
1530 – 40s Henry VIII kept his concubines in Bishop’s Palace at northeast corner
1530 – 40s Henry VIII . . . — — Map (db m118202) HM
Regent’s Canal Islington
Maiden Lane Bridge to Sturts Lock
History
The eight and a half mile long Regent’s Canal was planned by Thomas Homer, a local businessman who saw the potential of a new waterway to link the Grand Junction . . . — — Map (db m118727) HM
A brief history of Regents Canal
The Regent's Canal is a 13.5km watercourse that extends from Little Venice in the west to Limehouse Basin in the east. Constructed as part of the Grand Union Canal system, it was the inspiration of engineer . . . — — Map (db m118725) HM
Sir Hugh
Myddelton
B. 1555 D. 1631
( back )
The Statue
Presented by
Sir Samuel Morton Peto
Bart., M.P.
the
Pedestal and Fountains
Contributed by
Voluntary Subscription
Aided by
A Grant from the Vestry
Of Islington . . . — — Map (db m118258) HM
The York
Until the late 18th Century, the site of The York was open fields and part of a farm. In 1838 the premises of The York was a private house belonging to the Pullen and Rhodes families; dairy cows once grazed up to the back door. The house . . . — — Map (db m118506) HM
Warm-hearted Nell Gwynne, in her will, desired her natural son, the Duke of St. Albans, to lay out £20 a year to release poor debtors out of prison, and this sum was distributed every Christmas Day to the inmates of Whitecross Street Prison. — — Map (db m116086) HM
William
Nicholson
(1824-1909)
Distiller, Politician,
Cricket Player, Benefactor
This alehouse is part of the Nicholson’s Heritage Collection. They’re all different, yet they all owe something to the man who founded them. William Nicholson . . . — — Map (db m118507) HM
