Erection date: 2/10/2019
This public space, previously three lanes of motor traffic, was opened by Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, Transport for London and Islington Council on 2 October 2019
N7, Highbury Corner
A dull plaque, but the removal of 3 lanes of motor traffic is worth celebrating.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Highbury Corner traffic scheme
This scheme converted a roundabout, which was unfriendly to pedestrians and p...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Highbury Corner traffic scheme
The Islington Book of Remembrance is an impressive undertaking: the database ...
This organisation has been a bit of a political football, often having its na...
Politician. Born Sadiq Aman Khan in Tooting. Elected as Member of Parliament ...
{On the marble base:} To the sacred and loving memory of the Aloysians who gave their lives for their country in the Great War. 1914 - ...
We photographed this plaque in Sept 2003, but on returning to photograph the building in March 2008, the plaque had gone. 2021: we retur...
Friese-Greene lived here 1888-91 and a plaque was erected in 1954 - it can be seen in the photo, beside the door. In 1997, despite local ...
Vannessa Stephen, Vanessa Bell, 1879-1961, artist, born and lived here until 1904.
The (unhelpfully brick-coloured) plaque is to the bottom left of the small upstairs window. Perhaps that was his bedroom.
The crucifix is supported on a Tuscan column. Some sections of the list of names are so badly weather-damaged that the names there are p...
Sir Benjamin Baker, 1840 - 1907, civil engineer, designer of the Forth Bridge, lived here 1881 - 1894. English Heritage
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