Join our guide Lottie, as Victorian music-hall singer and Islington resident Nelly Power, on this free 90-minute ‘theatrical’ walk. Listen to Nelly’s story, and perhaps a song or two, while visiting the locations of the borough’s well-known music halls. Hear how these venues were once made famous by performers including Vesta Tilley, Gracie Fields, Marie Lloyd and, of course, Nelly herself!

The tour finishes at Islington Museum so that you can enjoy the current exhibition Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay! Music Hall in Islington. The museum is staying open late specially on the evening of 20th August.

This walk has been generously funded by Islington Heritage Service. The walk is free but booking is essential.

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history on our tour, visiting Islington’s green spaces, churches, historic buildings, and a river that isn’t a river. Along the way we’ll be meeting kings, artists, writers, painters, musicians, a real life Rapunzel, and even an Egyptian mummy! You’ll hear how the area of Islington was transformed from monastic lands, to dairy farms (mind the cows!), to the sprawl of nineteenth century London. The tour begins outside Highbury & Islington Station, ends on Islington Green, and will take around two hours. Total distance is around two miles.

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history on our tour, visiting Islington’s green spaces, churches, historic buildings, and a river that isn’t a river. Along the way we’ll be meeting kings, artists, writers, painters, musicians, a real life Rapunzel, and even an Egyptian mummy! You’ll hear how the area of Islington was transformed from monastic lands, to dairy farms (mind the cows!), to the sprawl of nineteenth century London. The tour begins outside Highbury & Islington Station, ends on Islington Green, and will take around two hours. Total distance is around two miles.

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history on our tour, visiting Islington’s green spaces, churches, historic buildings, and a river that isn’t a river. Along the way we’ll be meeting kings, artists, writers, painters, musicians, a real life Rapunzel, and even an Egyptian mummy! You’ll hear how the area of Islington was transformed from monastic lands, to dairy farms (mind the cows!), to the sprawl of nineteenth century London. The tour begins outside Highbury & Islington Station, ends on Islington Green, and will take around two hours. Total distance is around two miles.

Join our guide Lottie, as Victorian music-hall singer and Islington resident Nelly Power, on this free 90-minute ‘theatrical’ walk. Listen to Nelly’s story, and perhaps a song or two, while visiting the locations of the borough’s well-known music halls. Hear how these venues were once made famous by performers including Vesta Tilley, Gracie Fields, Marie Lloyd and, of course, Nelly herself!

The tour finishes at Islington Museum so that you can enjoy the current exhibition Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay! Music Hall in Islington. The museum is staying open late specially on the evening of 20th August.

This walk has been generously funded by Islington Heritage Service. The walk is free but booking is essential.

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history on our tour, visiting Islington’s green spaces, churches, historic buildings, and a river that isn’t a river. Along the way we’ll be meeting kings, artists, writers, painters, musicians, a real life Rapunzel, and even an Egyptian mummy! You’ll hear how the area of Islington was transformed from monastic lands, to dairy farms (mind the cows!), to the sprawl of nineteenth century London. The tour begins outside Highbury & Islington Station, ends on Islington Green, and will take around two hours. Total distance is around two miles.

Described as a ‘Gothic tornado’ on Upper Street,  Union Chapel is an architectural gem and originally one of the largest nonconformist churches in London. It houses  a unique Willis Organ, with unusual water powered bellows,  an octagonal interior and stunning stained glass windows.

Now an award winning music venue, a homelessness project as well as being a working church, the Chapel still towers over Upper Street. Take a tour and learn more from one of our guides about Islington’s nonconformist heritage, the Chapel’s triumphant survival after a wartime bomb, and the fascinating story of its near demolition and in the 1980s, at a time when Victorian architecture was only just being appreciated.

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history on our tour, visiting Islington’s green spaces, churches, historic buildings, and a river that isn’t a river. Along the way we’ll be meeting kings, artists, writers, painters, musicians, a real life Rapunzel, and even an Egyptian mummy! You’ll hear how the area of Islington was transformed from monastic lands, to dairy farms (mind the cows!), to the sprawl of nineteenth century London. The tour begins outside Highbury & Islington Station, ends on Islington Green, and will take around two hours. Total distance is around two miles.

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history on our tour, visiting Islington’s green spaces, churches, historic buildings, and a river that isn’t a river. Along the way we’ll be meeting kings, artists, writers, painters, musicians, a real life Rapunzel, and even an Egyptian mummy! You’ll hear how the area of Islington was transformed from monastic lands, to dairy farms (mind the cows!), to the sprawl of nineteenth century London. The tour begins outside Highbury & Islington Station, ends on Islington Green, and will take around two hours. Total distance is around two miles.

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history on our tour, visiting Islington’s green spaces, churches, historic buildings, and a river that isn’t a river. Along the way we’ll be meeting kings, artists, writers, painters, musicians, a real life Rapunzel, and even an Egyptian mummy! You’ll hear how the area of Islington was transformed from monastic lands, to dairy farms (mind the cows!), to the sprawl of nineteenth century London. The tour begins outside Highbury & Islington Station, ends on Islington Green, and will take around two hours. Total distance is around two miles.

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history on our tour, visiting Islington’s green spaces, churches, historic buildings, and a river that isn’t a river. Along the way we’ll be meeting kings, artists, writers, painters, musicians, a real life Rapunzel, and even an Egyptian mummy! You’ll hear how the area of Islington was transformed from monastic lands, to dairy farms (mind the cows!), to the sprawl of nineteenth century London. The tour begins outside Highbury & Islington Station, ends on Islington Green, and will take around two hours. Total distance is around two miles.

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history on our tour, visiting Islington’s green spaces, churches, historic buildings, and a river that isn’t a river. Along the way we’ll be meeting kings, artists, writers, painters, musicians, a real life Rapunzel, and even an Egyptian mummy! You’ll hear how the area of Islington was transformed from monastic lands, to dairy farms (mind the cows!), to the sprawl of nineteenth century London. The tour begins outside Highbury & Islington Station, ends on Islington Green, and will take around two hours. Total distance is around two miles.

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history on our tour, visiting Islington’s green spaces, churches, historic buildings, and a river that isn’t a river. Along the way we’ll be meeting kings, artists, writers, painters, musicians, a real life Rapunzel, and even an Egyptian mummy! You’ll hear how the area of Islington was transformed from monastic lands, to dairy farms (mind the cows!), to the sprawl of nineteenth century London. The tour begins outside Highbury & Islington Station, ends on Islington Green, and will take around two hours. Total distance is around two miles.