Built by Henry Penton in the late 1700s, possibly London's first planned suburb. The estate was completed around 1820. A few of the original houses survive in Chapel Market. The 'Penton Estate: 750 commercial and residential properties, N1 and WC1' was sold by auction in May 1951.
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Penton Estate
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Penton Estate
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The Polygon
Polygon Road was the site of The Polygon - a fifteen sided building of 32 houses situated around a garden. William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft lived at No 29 for a time and their daughter, later...
1 memorial
Copenhagen House & Fields
Copenhagen House was a famous tavern & tea-garden which stood in what is now Copenhagen Park, N7, from early 17th century until 1855. The name either comes from the King of Denmark who stayed i...
Place, Architecture, Commerce, Food & Drink, Politics & Administration, Denmark
3 memorials
T. E. Collcutt
Architect. Born Thomas Edward Collcutt, in Jericho, Oxford. President of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1906 to 1908. He designed the Imperial Institute building in Kensington, the ...
1 memorial
1 memorial
1 memorial
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Coachmakers' Hall
The Worshipful Company of Coachmakers and Coach Harness Makers received their charter in 1677 and initially did not have a hall of their own. Following the Great Fire the Worshipful Company of Scr...
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
1 memorial
Great Storm - Victoria Park
E9, Victoria Park, Crown Gate West
We originally photographed this plaque in 2010. Returning in 2016, we found that the empty small white plinth to the right of the tree wa...
2 subjects commemorated,
2 creators
Royal Literary Fund
British benevolent fund for professional published authors in financial difficulties. The Prince Regent supported it by providing premises at 36 Gerrard Street.
1 memorial
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