This scheme converted a roundabout, which was unfriendly to pedestrians and people on bikes, into two-way roads and created a plaza in front of the station. This is happening at many locations all over London - removing the domination of the car and returning the streets to people. At Highbury some locals are concerned that this scheme may have increased traffic on other roads.
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Highbury Corner traffic scheme
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Highbury Corner traffic scheme
This public space, previously three lanes of motor traffic, was opened by Sad...
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Great Eastern Street
Constructed 1872-6 by The Metropolitan Board of Works. Opened in 1876. Improved in 1880-2.
1 memorial
Charles Hay and Son
Barge builders and repairers. Charles Hay was a Queen's Waterman and a Master of the Watermen's Company. The business is still operational, but part of the building has been converted into flats.
1 memorial
HMS Beagle
A Cherokee-class brig-sloop, launched from the Woolwich Dockyard. She was adapted as a survey barque and took part in three expeditions, the second of which was the voyage on which the young Charle...
1 memorial
3 memorials
Sir Patrick Abercrombie
Pioneer of town and country planning, Leslie Patrick Abercrombie was born near Manchester. Abercrombie was an academic during most of his career, and prepared one city plan and several regional st...
1 memorial
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Lieutenant Colonel Robert Edward Frederic Shaw, MC
Robert Edward Frederic Shaw was born on 29 August 1891, the second of the five children of Robert Villiers George Shaw (1864-1946) and Agnes Marion Shaw née Guy (1862-1955). His birth was registere...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Sir Lennox Berkeley
Composer. Born in Oxford. He studied in Paris along with Ravel. Here he also became acquainted with Poulenc, Stravinsky, Milhaud, Honneger and Roussel. In 1936 he met Benjamin Britten with whom he ...
1 memorial
William Shakespeare - British Library
NW1, Euston Road, The British Library
An information panel informs that the statue was commissioned by David Garrick and sculpted by Louis Roubiliac. It was bequeathed to the ...
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Sir Eric Salmon
Eric Cecil Heygate Salmon. He was educated at Malvern College and the Malvern Society Archives carry an obituary from which we learn... Awarded the MC in WW1. Then worked in the Ministry of Health...
1 memorial
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