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 ...
Initially (ha-ha) we were puzzled by the letters at the bottom of this plaque and we are grateful to Jan Eskildsen who, via Facebook, has...
The presence of Sherlock Holmes at this unveiling is rather misleading since he was not present at the event commemorated. In Conan Doyle...
William Felton's carriage works was close to this spot. In 1803 he built a carriage powered by a steam engine designed and supplied by Ri...
There is a rather strange modern architectural sculpture in this courtyard (you can see the top of it to the left of our picture, behind ...
Bragansas This two-dimensional form is a bragansa, a Cognate word which can be crudely translated as "spirit door" or "tombshadow," but r...
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