Discover how the Nag's Head area of Holloway Road quickly evolved from a well-to-do middle class suburb to become North London's go-to shopping district, offering the best selection of well-known brands, impressive independent outlets, beautiful restaurants and top-end entertainment, all accessed by excellent wide roads and frequent rail services. Hints of Holloway's history, including The ... Read More
Ghostsigns are the remnants of old advertising that still cling to the walls above today's busy streets depicting products or services that are no longer available. There are some excellent examples to be found in adjacent to Islington High Street. Most of the signs we'll look at will be the hand-painted variety, as per the ... Read More
Sport and transport, movies and moving. Join Jane to admire and find out about a cross-section of 1930's buildings, collectively known as Art Deco. See how the innovative styles of that era still endure today. You'll see stadium and cinema architecture whilst hearing about design, typography and geometric embellishments and you'll get to peek inside ... Read More
A mixed bag showcasing the diverse and creative people who have lived and worked in the Holloway area across the centuries. Learn about innovators and inventors, diarists and dandies, punks and painters, space travel and sport. We'll visit locations associated with poets, playwrights, musicians, artists and thieves – some names you might already know but ... Read More
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
On this guided walk, Jane will show you some marvellous 'statement' architecture constructed in the interwar years during a design period that came to be identified as 'Art Deco'. The modernist architecture of the 1920s and 1930s with its clean geometric lines, simplicity, functionality and minimal decorative enhancement was designed to impress and inspire – ... Read More
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
A wander along Upper Street looking at remnants of lovely old shop fronts hinting at a bygone age when this area was a magnet for upper classes, hence its reputation as Islington's Golden Mile. Learn about the top quality products on offer, beautifully presented behind spindle windows and curved glass. Hear about umbrella makers, handmade ... Read More