DOCSLIB.ORG

Despite the Virus: Snowfall and Then Spring Blooms!

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Despite the Virus: Snowfall and Then Spring Blooms! Free ✱ bi-monthly ✱ in-house news & events ✱ February 2021 ✱ issue No 6 Despite the virus: snowfall 'ONE FOR THE BIRDS' DRAWING and then spring blooms! COMPETITION: DEADLINE: 11 MARCH We have a big pile of Amazon vouchers worth £10 each waiting for the best drawings of a bird (or birds) sent in by any of you talented artists aged 3-16. Pick your own drawing materials (paint, pencil, crayon, pastel, chalks or even make a mosaic). We’ll print PIC: DOT GIBSON PIC: DOT the best pics in the next issue of Barnsbury News and display them Snowfall transformed Lockdown Islington last month. in the window at 60 Morland Mews. Email a photo or scan of your Dot Gibson writes from her flat in Highbury View artwork, together with your name and phone number by It is Saturday and I am looking out The trees are bare today and I can Thursday . All emails to editor Dean of my window at Highbury Fields. see the shape of the boughs. Later 11 March McGlynn at It is lit by a watery, wintry sun and with the setting sun the branches [email protected] there are dozens of well-wrapped- take on a beautiful fairytale glow. up ‘masked’ people of all ages. But what a difference a day makes! On Sunday it is snowing. HOW TO CONTACT US Winter scenery The Fields are a playground for They walk alone or with their 'bubble' families snowballing and building or the dog, or push a pram. They run, snowmen. It is great to see the joy All our offices are staying cycle, play football with children or and to know that, despite the virus, closed until the Covid-19 risk work out with their trainer. Some soon the budding new season's is properly under control and send the muzzled sound of their green leaves will reveal themselves the London vaccine roll-out boxing gloves across the fields. and the golden daffodils will is much more advanced. The scene reminds me of a Lowry brighten up everything. painting – figures moving this way A smiling face appears at the Our staff remain hard at and that across the landscape, going window. I am not only John's Mum, work, using online systems about their own business but also but his ‘bubble'. He has cycled over to run your services almost united in time and place. from south London. as normal. I have never been more pleased Maurice arrives with my biscuits that I chose this flat 12 years ago. from his shopping trip. I am so lucky To get in touch email us on It was the window looking over – it is not just the scene through my E [email protected] or call Highbury Fields that decided me window that keeps me happy, it is q020 7704 2324 between and I am never disappointed. my family and my friends and 9.30am-12pm and 2-5.30pm. The scene is constantly changing. neighbours here at Highbury View. Find out more ✱ barnsbury.org 1 ✱ February 2021 BHA news Feb 2021 6pp.indd 1 09/02/2021 14:34 GET THE COVID JAB! Holding the fort: caretakers Getting the Covid-19 vaccine and cleaners stay on duty will help protect you and other people who come into Steve and Spencer are keeping the contact with you. It may not caretaking service going so shared stop you catching the virus, areas in and around our properties or getting it a second time, stay tidy and safe. Our cleaners are but should make you far less also on duty and disinfecting door likely to be very ill or suffer handles and buzzers. Please do for months, as many have. your bit too by making sure no one The vaccine is given in two from your household makes a mess doses, with the first making outside and that your rubbish and you better protected within recycling are bagged or binned and two to three weeks. only put out shortly before the Spencer and Steve remain on duty council collects household waste. The vaccine is free and is your passport EMERGENCY REPAIRS SERVICE ONLY to a safer world. We are for now only able to carry To report an emergency repair out emergency repairs or work, like during normal office hours, please www.nhs.uk/conditions/ gas appliance checks, that is vital call us on q020 7704 2324. coronavirus-covid-19/ for your health and safety. coronavirus-vaccination Outside office hours please report emergency repairs to the service Please let us know if: run for us by ISHA on: you or anyone else in your Mother-in-law's covid jab ✚ Mon-Thurs 5:30pm to 9:30am home is self-isolating was a walk in the park, q anyone in your home is 0772 530 2389 reports housing officer ✚ Weekends, 5:30pm on Friday showing symptoms of Covid-19 Graham Vine to 9:30am on Monday or has recently tested positive. q 0300 131 7300. Yesterday I took my 80-year-old mother in law to be vaccinated at Brimfield Street Health Centre in Caledonian road. Smart safety for you and There was a safely distanced queue to reception. Inside within our emergency workers minutes, we were given a squirt of In the ongoing effort we’re all making to stop the virus spreading hand sanitiser and sent to a freshly anyone working for us who needs to come into your home to sort out a sanitised seat. After a few minutes repair problem will wear full protective gear. We expect you to make we went to another room for a sure they can work safely while they’re in your home by: short wait then onto a private area. Here a very calm and patient ✱ Keeping all the windows open ✱ Making sure anyone in the same woman checked June's medical to increase ventilation. This helps room as our workers wears a history and told her she’d be getting lower the risk of any virus levels mask unless they are aged the Oxford Astra vaccine. ‘That’s present building up in the air. under 5 or exempt for a medical fine,’ we said. It was over in a flash. ✱ Leaving all doors open to avoid or other good reason. We next moved to another freshly their having to touch your door ✱ Keeping, as far as possible, two sanitised area with a stopwatch set handles (exception: see below) metres between yourself and to go off in 15 minutes – and a card ✱ Send anyone not needed to our workers inside your home for June to return in 12 weeks. help with or explain the problem and outside. We could have stayed longer but outside or, if that is not safe or ✱ Don’t share with our workers June was fine so we left. June has reasonable, into a different any pens, pencils, or any other had no symptoms other than a room. They should shut the object, no matter how useful. slightly numb arm. Please do get door behind them and stay your vaccine when it is offered. there until the workers have left. Thank you for helping out! It’s the only way out for all of us. Find out more ✱ barnsbury.org 2 ✱ February 2021 BHA news Feb 2021 6pp.indd 2 09/02/2021 14:34 Tips for keeping CASH STRAPPED? warm without breaking HOW WE CAN HELP into the piggy bank We know many of you are worried about losing your job and, if it happens, how you'll ✱ Set the timer on your boiler so it ✱ Thermal blinds do a fine job of pay the rent and other costs. starts heating your home at a cutting out heat lost through If you do lose your job put in lower temperature 30 minutes windows. You can buy reasonably your claim for universal before you get up. This uses less priced blinds online from a wide credit at once. Let us know gas than turning it on at a higher range of retailers, including Ikea. too. We will back your claim temperature when you get up. ✱ Curtains lined with insulating and can help you apply. ✱ Lag (wrap in a suitable material) material will make rooms warmer. your water pipes. Pre-cut foam Leave the curtains open when the Call our debt and welfare advice lagging from DIY stores costs sun is shining, but close them as very little and keeps hot water soon as the sun goes. service to make an appointment with pipes warm for longer. You’ll use ✱ Covering your window panes with Priscilla for help and advice on less gas and protect the pipes cling film may cut out some heat from freezing in very cold weather. loss. A sceptical Barnsbury News welfare support, grants and other ✱ Cut out draughts by putting tried this and it seemed to make a ways to cope with financial hardship. adhesive backed fabric or rubber little bit of difference. strips around the edges of your ✱ Don’t put your sofa (or curtains or q [email protected] or call doors and windows. a clothes airer) directly in front of E ✱ Close the doors to any rooms a radiator. It stops the warm air Priscilla on 020 7704 2324 you are not heating. circulating around the room. Are you on our call list? Warm your home for less: free Regular wellbeing calls to check on residents expert help from Green Doctors We are again calling some of you to check on your wellbeing Have you tried calling Green Doctors? This service, free to all our tenants, gives free expert help and advice on warming your and ask if you need any practical home without costing the earth.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • LBI ESTATES Upper Street Central Street Lyon Street Holland Walk
    WARLTERSVILLE MANSIONS COLEMAN MANSIONS BARNES HOUSE HILLRISE MANSIONS LOCHBIE/BRAMBLEDOWN NEW ORLEANSHORNSEY RISE ESTATE MANCHESTER MANSIONS REDWOOD COURT LEYDEN MANSIONS ASHMOUNT ESTATE HOLLY PARK Holland Walk THE BEECHES HILLSIDE ESTATE LBI ESTATES CROUCH HALL COURT ELTHORNE ESTATE 18-20 HORNSEY RISE SHELLEY COURT MIRANDA ESTATE COTMAN HOUSE/STUBBS HOUSE WHITEHALL MANSIONS GAINSBOROUGH HOUSE HOUSING OFFICE AREAS SALTDENE CALVERT COURT SEARLE PLACE TURNER HOUSE FAIRBRIDGE/ELTHORNE REYNOLDS HOUSE ELAINE HOUSE GROVEDALE ROAD LENTON TRC/CLIFTON TRC FONTHIL BOWERMAN COURT CONSTABLE HOUSE HADEN COURT GIRDLESTONE ESTATE 112-114 MARLBOROUGH RD RINGMAR GARDENS (BAVARIA) BLENHEIM COURT CHRISTIE COURT SEDGLEY HOUSE COTTENHAM HOUSE SUSSEX CLOSE HARGRAVE MANSIONS VAUDEVILLE COURT BROOKSIDE PLACE SUSSEX WAY SIX ACRES HARGRAVE PARK ESTATE ST PAUL'S COURT LANDSEER COURT OAKDALE COURT JOHN KING COURT LARCHAM COURT 95-99 TOLLINGTON WAY ANDOVER ESTATE SHAW COURT PEMBERTON GARDENS, NO.2 DEEPDALE CHIRGWIN COURT SIMMONS HOUSE SYCAMORE COURT MEDINA COURT WEDMORE ESTATE TOLLINGTON WAY, 21 - 25 40-50,53-69 WYATT ROAD TREMLETT GROVE ESTATE TWELVE ACRES/RIVERSDENE BENNETT COURT WAVERLY COURT GILLESPIE BLACKSTOCK ESTATE QUADRANT ESTATE HOOD COURT MARGERY FRY COURT BLACKSTOCK RD / CONEWOOD ST HERBERT CHAPMAN ESTATE PARKHURST / TUFNELL PARK ROAD TUFNELL PARK ESTATE HARVIST ESTATE AVENELL MANSIONS ARDILAUN ROAD, 15-19 PALMERS ESTATE DAREN COURT LONGLEY HOUSE PARK VIEW WILFRED FIENBURGH COURT AUBERT COURT DRAKELEY COURT TAWNEY COURT CROW-FIELD HOUSE WILLIAMSON STREET
    [Show full text]
  • London Overground CLD Stickers PDF 188KB
    Imperial Wharf Ë Imperial Clapham Wharf Ë Junction Ë Trains to Gatwick London Overground sticker for Part No: 28124/300 Size: 139 x 54mm October 2009 Gospel Upper Harringay Blackhorse Leyton Wanstead Oak Holloway Green Lanes Road Barking Ë Hampstead Midland Road Park Heath Crouch Hill South Victoria Walthamstow Leytonstone Woodgrange District Tottenham Queen’s Road High Road Park Hammersmith & City Kentish Town West Camden Road Highbury Dalston Euston Ë & Islington Kingsland Homerton Stratford Northern Caledonian Road & Canonbury Hackney Hackney Victoria Barnsbury Central Wick No service between Gospel Oak and Stratford until 31 May 2010 due to planned engineering work. Replacement bus service operates Part No: 28124/301 05.10 Overground sticker for Part No’s: 28124/301 Size: 448 x 180mm February 2010 Gospel Upper Harringay Blackhorse Leyton Wanstead Oak Holloway Green Lanes Road Barking Ë Hampstead Midland Road Park Heath Crouch Hill South Victoria Walthamstow Leytonstone Woodgrange District Tottenham Queen’s Road High Road Park Hammersmith & City Kentish Town West Camden Road Highbury Dalston Euston Ë & Islington Kingsland Homerton Stratford Northern Caledonian Road & Canonbury Hackney Hackney Victoria Barnsbury Central Wick No service between Gospel Oak and Stratford until 31 May 2010 due to planned engineering work. Replacement bus service operates Part No: 28124/300 05.10 Overground sticker for Part No’s: 28124/300 Size: 756 x 300mm February 2010 Highbury Ë Dalston & Islington Canonbury Kingsland Victoria Dalston Junction Haggerston
    [Show full text]
  • Retail & Leisure Opportunities for Lease
    A NEW VIBRANT COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL HUB IN SHOREDITCH Retail & Leisure Opportunities For Lease SHOREDITCH EXCHANGE, HACKNEY ROAD, LONDON E2 LOCATION One of London’s most creatively dynamic and WALKING TIMES culturally vibrant boroughs, Shoreditch is the 2 MINS Hoxton ultimate destination for modern city living. Within 11 MINS Shoreditch High Street walking distance of the City, the area is also 13 MINS Old Street superbly connected to the rest of London and beyond. 17 MINS Liverpool Street The development is situated on the north side of LONDON UNDERGROUND Hackney Road close to the junction of Diss Street from Old Street and Cremer Street. 3 MINS Bank 5 MINS King’s Cross St Pancras The immediate area boasts many popular 5 MINS London Bridge restaurants, gyms, independent shops, bars and 11 MINS Farringdon cafes including; The Blues Kitchen, Looking Glass 14 MINS Oxford Circus Cocktail Club, The Bike Shed Motorcycle Club. 18 MINS Victoria The famous Columbia Road Flower Market is just 19 MINS Bond Street a 3 minute walk away and it’s only a 5 minute walk to the heart of Shoreditch where there’s Boxpark, Dishoom and countless more bars, shops and LONDON OVERGROUND restaurants. from Hoxton 10 MINS Highbury & Islington Bordering London’s City district, local transport 12 MINS Canada Water links are very strong with easy access to all the 14 MINS Surrey Quays major hubs of the West End and City. Numerous 29 MINS Hampstead Heath bus routes pass along Hackney Road itself which Source: Google maps and TFL also provides excellent links. Hoxton Overground station is just a 2 minute walk away.
    [Show full text]
  • Controlled Parking Zones
    l ISLINGTON Controlled Parking Zones Version 29 0 0.5 1 Kilometers Note: This map is designed as a guide only and should not be used as a definitive layout of CPZs within Islington Borough Boundary Match Day Area Boundary Red Route Parking Restrictions A- Zone A Mon - Fri 8.30am - 6.30pm, Sat 8.30am - 1.30pm B - Zone B Mon - Fri 8.30am - 6.30pm, Sat 8.30am - 1.30pm C - Zone C Monday to Saturday At Any Time, Sunday Midnight -6am D - Holloway West Mon - Fri 9.30am - 4.30pm E - Zone E Mon - Fri 8.30am - 6.30pm, Sat 8.30am - 1.30pm Matchday Controls: Mon - Fri 8.30am - 8.30pm, Sat 8.30am - 4.30pm Sun & Public Hols Noon - 4.30pm F - Nags Head Mon - Fri 8.30am - 6.30pm, Sat 8.30am - 1.30pm Matchday Controls: Mon - Fri 8.30am - 8.30pm, Sat 8.30am - 4.30pm Sun & Public Hols Noon - 4.30pm G - Gillespie Mon - Fri 1Oam - 2pm Matchday Controls: Mon - Fri 2pm - 8.30pm Sat, Sun & Public Hols Noon - 4.30pm H - Finsbury Park Mon - Sat 8.30am - 6.30pm Matchday Controls: Mon - Fri 8.30am - 8.30pm, Sat 8.30am - 6.30pm Sun & Public Hols Noon - 4.30pm HE - Hillrise East Mon - Fri 1 Oam - 2pm J - Finsbury Park Mon - Sat 8.30am - 6.30pm Matchday Controls: Mon - Fri 8.30am - 8.30pm, Sat 8.30am - 6.30pm Sun & Public Hols Noon - 4.30pm K - Whittington At any time L - Canonbury S - Thornhill Mon - Fri 8.30am - 6.30pm, Sat 8.30am - 1.30pm Mon - Fri 8.30am - 6.30pm, Sat 8.30am - 1.30pm Matchday Controls: Mon - Fri 8.30am - 8.30pm, Sat 8.30am - 4.30pm T - East Canonbury Sun & Public Hols Noon - 4.30pm Mon - Fri 8.30am - 6.30pm, Sat 8.30am - 1.30pm N - Barnsbury North TW - Tollington West Mon - Fri 8.30am - 6.30pm, Sat 8.30am - 1.30pm Mon - Fri 1Oam - 2pm Matchday Controls: Mon - Fri 8.30am - 8.30pm, Sat 8.30am - 4.30pm U - Junction South Sun & Public Hols Noon - 4.30pm Mon - Fri 1Oam - Noon P -Archway V- Mildmay Mon - Fri 8.30am - 6.30pm, Sat 8.30am - 1.30pm Mon - Fri 8.30am - 6.30pm, Sat 8.30am - 1.30pm Matchday Controls: Q - Quadrant Mon - Fri 8.30am - 8.30pm, Sat 8.30am - 4.30pm Mon - Fri 8.30am - 6.30pm Sun & Public Hals Noon - 4.30pm Matchday Controls: Mon - Fri 8.30am - 8.30pm W - St.
    [Show full text]
  • Wildlife Gardens in London
    Your garden probably already supports a mixture of animals. You n might see blue tits and sparrows, butterflies and beetles, and watch o the cheeky antics of squirrels and foxes. This pack will help you to i develop ways of attracting more local wildlife to your garden. t Wildlife gardeners try to manage their garden as a balanced habitat, c where each animal and plant has a part to play. u d About this pack In this pack you will find help to start the following projects. o Feel free to photocopy the sheets if you want to share them. r A butterfly garden t Improve your flower borders to make a perfect environment for butterflies. n i Gardening for birds How to improve your garden for blue tits, sparrows and other songbirds with trees : and shrubs. g Feeding birds n i Providing food for birds in your garden can help them through difficult times when natural food is scarce. n A mini-meadow e Grass gardening for grasshopper people to experience the chirp of the cricket and d the flutter of the meadow brown butterfly. r Pond building a A centrepiece for the wildlife garden, and vital support for dragonflies and frogs. G Pond maintenance How to keep your pond attractive and healthy. e f Wildlife on walls i l City gardening for bird lovers. Greening your walls for wildlife, and building your own bird boxes. d l i Problem wildlife Maintaining a balance in your garden and dealing with slugs. W Monitoring your wildlife garden Keep your own records, and help by adding to ours.
    [Show full text]
  • London Borough of Islington Archaeological Priority Areas Appraisal
    London Borough of Islington Archaeological Priority Areas Appraisal July 2018 DOCUMENT CONTROL Author(s): Alison Bennett, Teresa O’Connor, Katie Lee-Smith Derivation: Origination Date: 2/8/18 Reviser(s): Alison Bennett Date of last revision: 31/8/18 Date Printed: Version: 2 Status: Summary of Changes: Circulation: Required Action: File Name/Location: Approval: (Signature) 2 Contents 1 Introduction .................................................................................................................... 5 2 Explanation of Archaeological Priority Areas .................................................................. 5 3 Archaeological Priority Area Tiers .................................................................................. 7 4 The London Borough of Islington: Historical and Archaeological Interest ....................... 9 4.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................. 9 4.2 Prehistoric (500,000 BC to 42 AD) .......................................................................... 9 4.3 Roman (43 AD to 409 AD) .................................................................................... 10 4.4 Anglo-Saxon (410 AD to 1065 AD) ....................................................................... 10 4.5 Medieval (1066 AD to 1549 AD) ............................................................................ 11 4.6 Post medieval (1540 AD to 1900 AD).................................................................... 12 4.7 Modern
    [Show full text]
  • HERITAGE NETWORK Specialists in Archaeology and the Historic Environment Since 1992
    HERITAGE NETWORK Specialists in Archaeology and the Historic Environment Since 1992 Accredited Contractor Constructionline SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 381 Holloway Road, LB Islington HN1234 DESK-BASED ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT Page left blank to optimize duplex printing HERITAGE NETWORK Registered with the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists Managing Director: David Hillelson, BA MCIfA SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, 381 Holloway Road, LB Islington Heritage Network ref.: HN1234 Desk-based Archaeological Assessment Prepared on behalf of Seventh Day Adventist Church, Holloway by Helen Ashworth BA ACIfA Report no. 967 November 2015 © The Heritage Network Ltd 111111 FFFURMSTON CCCOURT ,,, IIICKNIELD WAYAYAY ,,, LLLETCHWORTH ,,, HHHERTS ... SG6 1UJ TTTELEPHONE ::: (((01462)(01462) 685991 FFFAXAXAX ::: (01462) 685998 Page left blank to optimize duplex printing SDA Church, Holloway Road Desk-based Archaeological Assessment Contents Summary ......................................................................................................................... Page i Section 1 Introduction .................................................................................................................... Page 1 Section 2 Baseline Data .................................................................................................................. Page 3 Section 3 Risk, Significance & Impact Assessments ..................................................................... Page 11 Section 4 Sources Consulted ........................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Blackstock Road, Highbury, N4 £650000
    Highbury 102 Highbury Park London N5 2XE Tel: 020 7288 9440 [email protected] Blackstock Road, Highbury, N4 £650,000 - Leasehold 3 bedrooms, 2 Bathrooms Preliminary Details A well proportioned three bedroom apartment in fantastic condition conveniently located to multiple underground stations, supermarkets and restaurants. Finished to a very high standard, with a large kitchen/living area and accompanying large bay windows allowing a bright an open experience. Ample storage compliments outstanding worktop space with integrated fridge freezer, space for a dishwasher and a gas oven to cultivate a contemporary aesthetic in this charming period conversion. The first large bedroom, currently set up as a living room, offers a luminous space with a large roof terrace. The first floor is complete with a shower room with toilet. The property is split over two levels with the top floor offering a further family bathroom and further two bedrooms. The second floor bathroom is spacious, tiled, and well- appointed including a bath tub, washbasin, and heated towel rail. The two bedrooms offers a larger master bedroom and smaller second bedroom. The local are is popular with professional people who exploit Highbury and Finsbury Parks outstanding transport connections. From Blackstock Road; occupants will enjoy close proximity to Arsenal Tube (Piccadilly Line, Zone 2), Finsbury Park Station (Victoria Line. Zone 2, and London Overground), and Drayton Park Station (Overground). All three stations make access to London's financial districts; The City and Docklands straightforward. Indeed, Moorgate and Bank are within fifteen minutes' and you can travel around the UK to such destinations as Cambridge and Brighton via Finsbury Park.
    [Show full text]
  • Proposed Extension of 135 – 136 Upper Street
    Proposed Extension of 135 – 136 Upper Street 1664 l 135 – 136 Upper Street, London, N11QP I Design and Access Statement I Tasou Associates 01 CONTENTS Contents 01 Contents 02 Introduction - The Existing Site -Use - Trees 03 Site Analysis - - Upper Street North Conservation Area - Transportation and Local Amenities 04 Design - Accommodation Schedule - Refuse and Bicycle Storage -Amenity Space - Materials -- Parking - Accessibility 05 Drawings - Existing Drawings - Proposed Drawings 06 Tasou Associates - Practice Profile - Residential Portfolio 1664 l 135 – 136 Upper Street, London, N11QP I Design and Access Statement I Tasou Associates 02 INTRODUCTION Introduction This statement has been prepared to accompany a full planning application. The proposals seek to add a half width extension to the rear and also a two storey roof extension. The CA18 and CA19, ‘Angel and Upper Street North’ guidelines identify 135 – 136 Upper Street as a property which could benefit from a roof extension. The document also identifies half width extensions as permissible. The Existing Site Located on Upper Street, the existing building is a three story terrace building. The ground floor extends to the west boundary of the site. A small first floor extension is located on the roof to the rear of the building. 1 N The terraced property is bounded to the north and south by 137 and 134 Upper Street (respectively). These neighbouring properties are very similar in appearance to each other, with identical heights and decorative window surrounds. There is a clear hierarchy between the three buildings with 135-136, the more dominant building of the three. These three buildings are significantly smaller than the rest of the buildings in the terrace.
    [Show full text]
  • The Tour of Islington, a Seven-Mile Pentonville Prison
    t 5pm, except Sundays and Wednesdays. Wednesdays. and Sundays except 5pm, o Islington Museum is open every day 10am day every open is Museum Islington Welcome to the W w ww.islington.gov.uk/heritage T 020 7527 2837 7527 020 Tour of Islington 2 45 St John St, EC1V 4NB EC1V St, John St 45 I slington Museum and Local History Centre History Local and Museum slington Welcome to the Tour of Islington, a seven-mile Pentonville Prison heritage, visit: heritage, route around the centre of Islington that uses Pentonville Prison was built in 1842. It is a good For more information about Islington’s about information more For safe cycling routes and has fascinating facts example of Victorian prison architecture about the borough. employing the “separation system”, which meant that each prisoner was unable to have Highbury Fields communication with his fellow inmates. The five Highbury Fields is the largest green space in halls of the prison radiate from one central place Islington. For centuries Highbury had been a rural so that wardens could view all corridors from area. With building encroaching on the area in the one location. The prison allowed for 520 solitary 19th century local inhabitants sought to have a cells. Pentonville Prison became the model for w ww.islington.gov.uk/Transport/Cycling park created. The 28 acre area was bought by the British prisons; a further 54 were built to the parking and cycle schemes, go to go schemes, cycle and parking Vestry and the Metropolitan Board of Works for same design over six years.
    [Show full text]
  • Landlord Offer - February 2021 3 Vote Yes for a BETTER BARNSBURY ESTATE
    JANUARY 2021 THE LANDLORD The future of the OFFER Barnsbury Estate Vote Yes FOR THE BARNSBURY ESTATE TRANSFORMATION You decide on the future of the Barnsbury Estate www.betterbarnsbury.org.uk Vote Yes FOR A BETTER BARNSBURY ESTATE www.betterbarnsbury.org.uk INTRODUCTION CONTENTS VOTE ‘YES’ FOR A BETTER BARNSBURY ESTATE At Newlon, we believe that the Barnsbury Estate needs urgent attention and investment and that you, our residents, deserve new and refurbished homes which suit your needs and requirements. Section 1 – Overview 4 The estate has provided a home to many people since the first buildings were constructed over 80 years ago. At Newlon, we want to fix the long-term problems that affect the buildings on the estate and ensure that it offers safe, THE VISION FOR THE BARNSBURY ESTATE 4 comfortable homes that meet its residents’ needs long into the future. OUR PROMISES TO YOU 6 We want the estate transformation to deliver positive change for you and for the wider community across the estate. We hope that you will vote yes to enable us to deliver this change. THE BALLOT 7 Thank you Mike Hinch Section 2 – Old Barnsbury 8 OFFER TO OLD BARNSBURY RESIDENTS 9 YOUR REFURBISHED HOME 10 Chief Executive TRANSFORMING GREEN SPACE 12 Newlon Housing Trust OUTSIDE SPACE AND BUILDINGS 13 PHASING 14 For the last 12 months I have been meeting with many of you at our workshops, whether in person or online, and listened to your feedback on our transformation plans. This has been so important in helping us to understand what Section 3 – New Barnsbury 16 you like about your homes, the estate and what you want to be improved.
    [Show full text]
  • Barnsbury Local History Trail Watercolour of Barnsbury Before Development C.1820 Library & Cultural Services Turn Right (R) out of the Library
    Local History Centre Finsbury Library 245 St. John Street London EC1V 4NB Appointments & enquiries (020) 7527 7988 [email protected] www.islington.gov.uk Closest Tube: Angel Barnsbury Local History Trail Watercolour of Barnsbury before development c.1820 Library & Cultural Services Turn right (r) out of the library. West Library, designed by A. Beresford Pite was opened in 1907, Turn r. down Barnsbury Street. This was once known as Cut Throat Lane, and was the route across one of five Islington libraries provided by the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. fields to the Workhouse. At the bottom of the street, on lhs, stands the Islington Workhouse site. The Ahead stands St. Andrew’s church. It was built by the renowned Islington stonemasons firm of Dove turreted building, now converted into flats, was once the Workhouse Registrar’s Office. The picture Brothers in 1854. The siting of the church helped to establish Thornhill Square as a smart residential shows the original extent of this building. area. Turn r. into Thornhill Square. Cross Liverpool Road and continue into Barnsbury Street. On the rhs, above the entrance to 41d, is The Square started to be built in the 1840’s. Along with much of Barnsbury, the land belonged to the a coat of arms. This denotes the entrance to the Islington Proprietory School founded 1830. Thornhill family and parcels of their estate were leased for development through the 19th century. The Shareholders were able to nominate scholars (usually their sons!) It was an academic school, with houses were originally built with conservatories. scholarships to Oxford and Cambridge.
    [Show full text]