Places of interest in and around N1 Barnsbury
Angel tube station is a London Underground station in The Angel, Islington. It is on the Bank branch of the Northern Line, between Old Street and King's Cross St. Pancras stations. It is in Travelcard Zone 1. Angel station was originally built by the City & South London Railway, and opened in 1901 as the northern terminus of a new extension from Moorgate (...)
The Slimelight club (often referred to as Slimes by regulars) is the longest running goth nightclub in the world. It is an alternative music club which is open every Saturday (and on New Years Eve) from 10pm to 7.30am (when the London Underground transport network starts running) with 2 or 3 floors playing music genres such as darkwave, EBM, trad goth, gothic rock, futurepop, (...)
Essex Road railway station is a National Rail station in Islington. It is on the Northern City Line between Old Street and Highbury & Islington and is in Travelcard Zone 2. The station is located at the junction of Essex Road, Canonbury Road and New North Road. It is the only deep level underground station in London served solely by mainline trains, operated by First Capital Connect (...)
City Road on the London Underground is a disused tube station. It was one of the stations built when the City & South London Railway (C&SLR) (now part of the Northern Line) extended its tunnels from Moorgate to Angel in 1901. It is located between Old Street and Angel. City Road station was closed in 1922 when the line was reconstructed to allow for the running of standard size tube (...)
Drayton Park railway station is on the Network Rail Northern City Line which carries First Capital Connect services between Moorgate and Welwyn Garden City or Hertford via Finsbury Park. Drayton Park lies between Finsbury Park and Highbury & Islington, and is Travelcard Zone 2 The station is in Islington, just off the Holloway Road near its southern end, close to the Liverpool Road (...)
St Mary Magdalene Gardens on Holloway Road in Islington, London, are the old burial ground of St Mary Magdalene Church. Some tomb stones still bear witness to these early times. However, the grounds were transformed into a public space at the end of the 19th century, which now is a space appreciated by many for recreation and leisure activities (...)
Highbury & Islington station is a National Rail, London Overground and London Underground station, in the London Borough of Islington in North London. It serves the suburbs of Highbury and Islington. The name is often shortened to simply Highbury. The station is on the Underground's Victoria Line, between Finsbury Park and King's Cross St. Pancras (...)
The Emirates Stadium is a football stadium located on Ashburton Grove in Holloway, north London, and the home of Arsenal Football Club since it opened in July 2006. The stadium has an all-seated capacity of 60,355, making it the second largest stadium in the Premiership after Old Trafford, and the third-largest stadium of any kind in London, after Wembley and Twickenham (...)
Caledonian Road is a station on the Piccadilly Line of the London Underground, between King's Cross St. Pancras and Holloway Road, and in Travelcard Zone 2. It was opened on 15 December 1906. Caledonian Road station is located on the north end of Caledonian Road in Holloway, north London. The station continues to use lifts, never having been upgraded to escalators (...)
Lower Holloway is a district in the London Borough of Islington, London. The name has fallen out of common use and the area is now generally regarded as being a part of (...)
Roger David Casement (;[http://www.taoiseach.gov.ie/irish/index.asp?locID=469&docID=2527 Na Ceannairà a cuireadh chun báis tar éis Éirà Amach 1916] — Irish government website, retrieved 12 December 2006. 1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916), known as Sir Roger Casement, CMG between 1911 and until his execution for treason in August 1916, was an Irish patriot, poet, (...)
HMP Pentonville Opened 1842 Management HM Prison Service Prison type Adult Male/Local Prisoner figures 1,177 (2006) Location Barnsbury, London Governor Gary Deighton Information [http://www.hmprisons.gov.uk/prisoninformation/locateaprison/prison.asp?id=632,15,2,15,632,0 www.hmprisons.gov (...)
. It is on the Piccadilly Line between Caledonian Road and Arsenal stations, and in Travelcard Zone 2. The station opened on 15 December 1906. The station was built with two lift shafts, but only one was ever used for lifts. The second shaft was the site of an experimental spiral escalator which was built by the American inventor of escalators, Jesse W. Reno (...)
