Event Series Local history

The Only Way Is Essex Road

One of Islington's often-ignored streets, this thoroughfare offers a wealth of diverse history and architectural delights. Jane will lead you along the full length of the road from Islington Green to Ball's Pond Road covering 500 years of history, from Tudor houses, through 1820's Georgian splendour and Victorian expansion to Art Deco embellishment and today’s ... Read More

Event Series Social housing

Look At The Estate We’re In

An architectural appreciation tour showcasing a variety of well-designed social housing estates in Islington.  We'll start in Essex Road and make our way to Highbury & Islington station via Victorian, Edwardian and pre-WWII developments made possible by concerned and innovative benefactors. We'll also look at early LCC estates and Islington's own, more recent, schemes. It's ... Read More

The Diary of a Nobody – Mr Pooter’s Holloway

Upper Holloway

The Diary of a Nobody started as a popular satirical column in Punch magazine in 1888 before being extended and published in book form a few years later.   This guided tour brings the book to life, taking you back to the late Victorian middle-class Upper Holloway that Mr. Charles Pooter and his family and ... Read More