https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-angel-islington.html [jd] jack of diamonds Life viewed from London E3 diamond geezer >> email me Tuesday, February 20, 2024 >> follow me on twitter >> follow the blog on +--------------+ Twitter | | >> follow the blog on RSS | | |--------------| >> my flickr photostream | | | THE ANGEL | twenty blogs | ISLINGTON | our bow | | arseblog | | ian visits | PS100 | londonist | | broken tv +--------------+ blue witch London's Monopoly Streets on london the great wen The ANGEL, ISLINGTON edith's streets Colour group: light blue spitalfields life Purchase price: PS100 linkmachinego Rent: PS6 round the island Length: n/a wanstead meteo Borough: Islington christopher fowler Postcode: N1 the greenwich wire bus and train user Of all the streets on the Monopoly ruth's coastal walk board, this one's unique because it round the rails we go isn't a street. It's more a street london reconnections corner, or more specifically a pub from the murky depths on a street corner, or more accurately an ex-pub beside an quick reference features arterial crossroads that's seen Things to do in Outer better days. The Angel has quite a London backstory, indeed if you want a full Things to do outside London a proper history you should read the Inner London toilet map lengthy treatise at British History 20 years of blog series Online or the illustrated analysis The DG Tour of Britain by the ever-excellent A London London's most... Inheritance, because that's what I did. It's also where, according to read the archive Monopoly legend, Victor Watson and Jan24 Feb24 Marjory Philips sat down during Dec23 Nov23 Oct23 Sep23 their daytrip from Leeds and mapped Aug23 Jul23 Jun23 May23 out which London properties would Apr23 Mar23 Feb23 Jan23 take each spot on the board. If so Dec22 Nov22 Oct22 Sep22 it'd make sense that they named the Aug22 Jul22 Jun22 May22 cheapest light blue after the cafe Apr22 Mar22 Feb22 Jan22 they were sitting in. Dec21 Nov21 Oct21 Sep21 Aug21 Jul21 Jun21 May21 [angeloldne] Apr21 Mar21 Feb21 Jan21 Dec20 Nov20 Oct20 Sep20 early 17th century Aug20 Jul20 Jun20 May20 Islington High Street, part of the Apr20 Mar20 Feb20 Jan20 main road north out of London, is Dec19 Nov19 Oct19 Sep19 already a densely built-up Aug19 Jul19 Jun19 May19 thoroughfare. A long bay-fronted Apr19 Mar19 Feb19 Jan19 property owned by St John's Priory Dec18 Nov18 Oct18 Sep18 becomes an inn called the Angel. Aug18 Jul18 Jun18 May18 Apr18 Mar18 Feb18 Jan18 early 18th century Dec17 Nov17 Oct17 Sep17 There are now three neighbouring Aug17 Jul17 Jun17 May17 coaching inns along the high street, Apr17 Mar17 Feb17 Jan17 the largest being the Angel. Its Dec16 Nov16 Oct16 Sep16 frontage is 90 feet long and it Aug16 Jul16 Jun16 May16 attracts considerable trade from Apr16 Mar16 Feb16 Jan16 livestock traders driving cattle to Dec15 Nov15 Oct15 Sep15 Smithfield and travellers aboard Aug15 Jul15 Jun15 May15 cross-country stagecoaches seeking Apr15 Mar15 Feb15 Jan15 overnight accommodation. Dec14 Nov14 Oct14 Sep14 Aug14 Jul14 Jun14 May14 mid 18th century Apr14 Mar14 Feb14 Jan14 A new road (called the New Road) is Dec13 Nov13 Oct13 Sep13 built from Marylebone to Islington - Aug13 Jul13 Jun13 May13 essentially a north London bypass to Apr13 Mar13 Feb13 Jan13 keep coaches and drovers out of the Dec12 Nov12 Oct12 Sep12 crowded city. One day all the light Aug12 Jul12 Jun12 May12 blue properties will lie along it. Apr12 Mar12 Feb12 Jan12 But to reach Islington High Street Dec11 Nov11 Oct11 Sep11 it has to cut straight through the Aug11 Jul11 Jun11 May11 Angel Inn, specifically targeting Apr11 Mar11 Feb11 Jan11 the weakspot of its stable yard, Dec10 Nov10 Oct10 Sep10 because demolishing buildings for Aug10 Jul10 Jun10 May10 bypasses was a thing even in 1756. Apr10 Mar10 Feb10 Jan10 Dec09 Nov09 Oct09 Sep09 1820 Aug09 Jul09 Jun09 May09 In 1820 the inn, now known as the Apr09 Mar09 Feb09 Jan09 Angel Inn Tavern and Hotel for Dec08 Nov08 Oct08 Sep08 Gentlemen and Families, is rebuilt Aug08 Jul08 Jun08 May08 on a more compact site. However the Apr08 Mar08 Feb08 Jan08 arrival of the railways swiftly Dec07 Nov07 Oct07 Sep07 dampens its popularity with Aug07 Jul07 Jun07 May07 long-distance travellers and over Apr07 Mar07 Feb07 Jan07 the Victorian period it evolves into Dec06 Nov06 Oct06 Sep06 more of a big pub. Aug06 Jul06 Jun06 May06 Apr06 Mar06 Feb06 Jan06 1903 Dec05 Nov05 Oct05 Sep05 The Truman, Hanbury and Buxton Aug05 Jul05 Jun05 May05 Brewery undertakes an extravagant Apr05 Mar05 Feb05 Jan05 rebuild, creating the current Dec04 Nov04 Oct04 Sep04 incarnation of the Angel. The pub Aug04 Jul04 Jun04 May04 has eating rooms and a smoking Apr04 Mar04 Feb04 Jan04 lounge upstairs (accessed via a Dec03 Nov03 Oct03 Sep03 green-marble and mahogany-lined Aug03 Jul03 Jun03 May03 staircase), a billiard room in the Apr03 Mar03 Feb03 Jan03 basement and 23 bedrooms on the Dec02 Nov02 Oct02 Sep02 upper storeys. back to main page [angelkorne] the diamond geezer index 2023 2022 The building still looks striking, 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 particularly if you're climbing St 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 John Street from the direction of 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 town. A bulbous terracotta dome 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 overshadows the street corner, rising to a weirdly phallic nipple. my special London features You have to get much closer to a-z of london museums identify the ring of angels around E3 - local history month the dome's equator, plus multiple greenwich meridian (N) cherubic embellishments scattered greenwich meridian (S) across the remaining frontage. Above the real eastenders the original main entrance, facing london's lost rivers Pentonville Road, another olympic park 2007 ring-haired angel stares from a great british roads gleaming pediment beneath a reminder oranges & lemons of the date of construction. Get the random boroughs sunlight right and the exterior bow road station gleams orange, and merits far closer high street 2012 inspection than most of those river westbourne dashing by afford. trafalgar square capital numbers [angelup] east london line lea valley walk 1922 olympics 2005 The building becomes a flagship regent's canal Lyons' Cafe (though not officially a square routes 'corner house', despite being on a silver jubilee corner site). In its heyday over 300 unlost rivers customers can be accommodated, cube routes spread between the main ground floor Herbert Dip cafe, an upstairs cafeteria and a metro-land basement grill. Victor and Marjory capital ring drop by in 1935. river fleet piccadilly 1959 bakerloo London County Council buy the building with an eye to making major ten of my favourite posts road junction improvements, the seven ages of blog specifically the insertion of an my new Z470xi mobile Angel roundabout. This and several five equations of blog other proposals fail, blocked by the dome of doom conservationists, so City chemical attraction University's geology department quality & risk takes temporary occupation as a london 2102 meanwhile use. single life boredom 1982 april fool The building, recently sold on to the New River Company, is repaired ten sets of lovely photos and refitted for use as offices and my "most interesting" a bank. The building looks rather photos less dazzling at ground floor level london 2012 olympic zone as a result. harris and the hebrides betjeman's metro-land [angelside] marking the meridian tracing the river fleet The Angel's been a bank even longer london's lost rivers than it was a Lyons. Most recently inside the gherkin it's been a branch of the seven sisters Co-operative bank, its walls painted iceland a light blue that befits its grouping on the Monopoly board. It's just surfed in? all a bit of a comedown from earlier here's where to find... hospitality uses, with tellers diamond geezers issuing notes behind drab counters flash mob #1 #2 #3 #4 and small siderooms for private ben schott's miscellany chats and the upselling of services. london underground A letterbox cut into a large window watch with mother confirms the postal address as 1 cigarette warnings Islington High Street. I rather like digital time delay the idea that an actual bank appears wheelie suitcases on the Monopoly board given that a war of the worlds repository of money is a key part of transit of venus the game. Alas it transpires that top of the pops the bank unit is now empty, having old buckenham closed a mere seven weeks ago. ladybird books acorn antiques [angelkoop] digital watches outer hebrides Closure was foreseen in the letting olympics 2012 notes ("Highly reversionary retail school dinners bank unit on a lease expiring in pet shop boys 2023") when the upper five floors of west wycombe office space were revamped in 2013. bletchley park The Co-op in fact limped on until george orwell 5th January 2024, after which the big breakfast bank switched premises to the former clapton pond HSBC at number 25 (and san francisco simultaneously introduced Saturday thunderbirds opening). Peer in now through the routemaster windows and you'll see a vacant children's tv space with blank blue surfaces being east enders cleared by workmen, the fittings now trunk roads stripped back to a few partitions. A amsterdam map showing how to reach the new little britain branch has only just been taken credit cards down. It seems my Monopoly board jury service quest has unintentionally brought me big brother here at a pivotal moment in the jubilee line Angel's history, but without yet number 1s making it clear what its titan arum customer-facing future might be. typewriters doctor who 2025 coronation To be confirmed comments blue peter The pub next-door (technically at matchgirls number 5) was until fairly recently hurricanes called The Angel. The name was buzzwords semi-accurate inasmuch as it sits brookside within the footprint of the original monopoly coaching inn, that is until peter pan Wetherspoons decided to shrink their starbucks portfolio and sold the pub to an feng shui independent company. Since last leap year summer it's been known by the much manbags less evocative name of The Junction bbc three and advertises a 'banging pub lunch vision on with tasty options from just PS10', piccadilly if that's your thing. Continue along meridian the street to the Doner Kebab and concorde Chinese takeaway combo at number 11 wembley and this retains some of the islington frontage of The Phoenix, another of ID cards those historic coaching inns, as a bedtime plaque on the front attests. freeview beckton [angeljunk] blogads eclipses The Angel is still one of London's letraset most significant road junctions, a arsenal snarl of queues where the A1 crosses sitcoms the Inner Ring Road. Of the three gherkin other buildings facing the calories crossroads only one is still a everest Victorian edifice, and that's to muffins let, while the block on the sudoku southwest corner is an camilla unapologetically modern glassy thing london offering cocktails and beer pong at ceefax ground level. Meanwhile the robbie northeastern wedge, above the tube becks station, is currently a huge and dome somewhat controversial building BBC2 site. The postmodern office block paris that used to sit here has been razed lotto and a miserably bland replacement 118 called Angel Square is rising in its itv place. The developers describe it as "energising workspace that you'll love to call your working home... with sustainability and wellbeing at its heart", and all I can say about its proposed corner cafe is that Victor and Marjory wouldn't have given it a second look. 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