Pubs in the London Borough of Islington

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Answer 1

The Angel, Islington

The Angel, Islington

The Angel, Islington is a historic landmark and a series of buildings that have stood on the corner of Islington High Street and Pentonville Road in Islington, London, England. The land originally belonged to the Clerkenwell Priory and has had various properties built on it since the 16th century. The site was bisected by the New Road, which opened in 1756, and properties on the site have been rebuilt several times up to the 20th century. The corner site gave its name to Angel tube station, opened in 1901, and the surrounding Angel area of London.

The current structure was completed in 1903 and was known as the Angel Hotel. The building was acquired by J. Lyons and Co. in 1921 and was used as a restaurant. In 1935 it was chosen as a property for the British version of Monopoly. The building was sold to the London County Council in 1959 to be demolished as part of plans for road improvement works that did not take place. It was returned to private ownership, renovated from 1979 and reopened in 1982 as the Angel Corner House. It is currently used as offices and a branch of the Co-operative Bank, and is a grade II listed building. In 1998 a new pub called the Angel, operated by J D Wetherspoon, opened at an adjacent premises.

In the early 16th century, a building in this area of London on the Great North Road was known as the Sheepcote. It was named after lands belonging to St John's Priory. The building was being used as an inn by the end of the 16th century and was known as the Angel by 1614. The inn took its name from the Angel of the Annunciation which appeared on the sign.

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The Crown, Islington

The Crown is a Grade II listed public house at 116 Cloudesley Road, Islington, London.

It was built in the late 19th century.

Coordinates: 51°32′14″N 0°06′34″W / 51.53726°N 0.10952°W / 51.53726; -0.10952

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Flying Scotsman, Kings Cross

The Flying Scotsman is a Grade II listed public house at 2–4 Caledonian Road, Kings Cross, London.

It was originally called The Scottish Stores, and was designed by the architects Wylson and Long, probably for James Kirk, and built in 1900–01.

The Flying Scotsman closed in November 2015, and re-opened as The Scottish Stores (its original name) in December 2015, as a pub specialising in craft beer.

Coordinates: 51°31′52″N 0°07′15″W / 51.531082°N 0.12081278°W / 51.531082; -0.12081278

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The Hope and Anchor, Islington

The Hope and Anchor, Islington

The Hope and Anchor is a pub on Upper Street, in the London Borough of Islington, and first opened its doors in 1880. During the mid-1970s it was one of the first pubs to embrace the emergent, but brief, phenomenon of pub rock. With the decline of this movement, the pub went on to become a leading venue in the punk rock movement. The Hope and Anchor is still an operational pub and live music venue today, owned and operated by the Greene King brewing company. Venue facilities have been improved via refurbishments over the years.

The Hope and Anchor can trace its history back to when the building was built in 1880. When the Tally Ho in Kentish Town decided to switch from showcasing rock music to Irish music, the Hope and Anchor became the venue to go to in North London. The nights grew and developed under the stewardship of managers Fred Grainger and Dave Robinson, both of whom later moved on to other things (Fred to open a Club in Brighton; Dave to co-found a record label.

In January 1976, the venue was acquired by Albion Management and Agency, who installed John Eichler as the landlord. In the light of numerous threats of closure, Eichler organised various benefits in order to keep the pub open, with named bands returning to the pub and performing for only expenses. Ian Grant of Albion narrowed down a long list to a final 22 bands – all of which had played at the pub at one time or another previously.

The Hope & Anchor Front Row Festival, which took place between Tuesday 22 November and Thursday 15 December 1977, featured numerous pub rock, punk, and new wave groups. The recordings were issued as a live double album of the same name, which reached No. 28 in the UK Albums Chart.

Unfortunately, few records exist of groups who performed at the Hope and Anchor. Below are a few (of the many) that are known to have played;

The actual performance space at the Hope and Anchor was, at the time, a spartan and rather grubby basement space, alternately dank or overheated, and always smoky, but this in many ways suited the anarchic ideals of late-1970s live music. It was here that The Stranglers recorded their album Live at the Hope and Anchor. The demo of the 'Between You and Me' track as used on the Howling Wind first Graham Parker album was recorded in the basement.

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The Hope, Smithfield

The Hope is a Grade II listed public house at 94 Cowcross Street, Smithfield, London.

It was built in the late 19th century.

Coordinates: 51°31′11″N 0°06′08″W / 51.51974°N 0.10213°W / 51.51974; -0.10213

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The Island Queen

The Island Queen is a Grade II listed public house at 87 Noel Road, Islington, London.

It was built in 1851.

Coordinates: 51°32′00″N 0°05′54″W / 51.533203°N 0.098463388°W / 51.533203; -0.098463388

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Answer 7

The Old Queens Head

The Old Queens Head

The Old Queen’s Head is a traditional pub on Essex Road in Islington, London. Its shopfront is scheduled as "to be retained" by Islington Council. Since 2006 The Old Queens Head has been a part of The Columbo Group - owned by Steve Ball and Riz Shaikh. It is a Grade II listed building.

The Old Queen's Head is a public house dating to about 1830; the pub front on the ground floor dates to about 1900. The interior contains some early 17th-century features from an earlier building on the site.

The three storey building is of Flemish bond yellow brick with a stucco cornice; a stepped parapet hides the pitched roof. There is a range of three windows facing Essex Road and three to Queen's Head Street; one window faces the corner, which is curved.

Inside, there is an early 17th-century moulded plaster ceiling. The ceiling is decorated with ornamental bands around panels that contain emblems. There is a wood and stone chimneypiece of the same age. Figures on either side of the stone hearth support an entablature bearing two carved scenes. The upper part of the chimneypiece is similarly decorated, ending in a frieze and cornice.

The previous pub on the site was demolished in 1829. It was described by Walter Thornbury, writing in 1872-1878, as

a strong wood and plaister building of three lofty storeys, projecting over each other in front, and forming bay windows, supported by brackets and carved figures. The centre, which projected several feet beyond the other part of the building, and formed a commodious porch, to which there was a descent of several steps, was supported in front by caryatides of carved oak, standing on either side of the entrance, and crowned with Ionic scrolls.

Thornbury describes the interior with the surviving fireplace in detail:

The interior of the house was constructed in a similar manner to that of most of the old buildings in the parish, having oak-panelled wainscots and stuccoed ceilings. The principal room was the parlour already alluded to, the ceiling of which was ornamented with dolphins, cherubs, acorns, &c., surrounded by a wreathed border of fruit and foliage, and had, near the centre, a medallion, of a character apparently Roman, crowned with bays, and a small shield containing the initials I. M. surrounded by cherubim and glory. The chimneypiece was supported by two figures carved in stone, hung with festoons, &c., and the stone slab, immediately over the fireplace, exhibited the stories of Danae and Actaeon in relief, with mutilated figures of Venus, Bacchus, and Plenty.

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The Old Red Lion, Islington

The Old Red Lion, Islington

The Old Red Lion is a pub and fringe theatre, at Angel, in the London Borough of Islington.

The theatre was founded in 1948 as the Old Red Lion Theatre Club. The pub was Grade II listed in 1994 by Historic England.

The pub in itself is one of the oldest in London, having first been built in 1415 in what was then the rural village of Islington in open countryside and fields. A house called Goose Farm and some nearby cattle pens (for herds being driven to Smithfield Market) were the only structures to adjoin it, and St John Street (then called Chester Road) was a country lane.

In the late 18th century Chester Road became notorious for highwaymen, with patrols being provided to protect those travelling along it at night. At this time descriptions state that the Old Red Lion was a small brick house with three trees in its forecourt, visited by William Hogarth (who portrayed it in the middle distance of his painting "Evening", with the foreground being Sadler's Wells), Samuel Johnson and Thomas Paine (who wrote The Rights of Man in the shade of the trees in its forecourt).

The Old Red Lion was rebuilt in 1899, designed by Eedle and Myers, adding two exits onto different streets. This gave the pub the nickname "the In and Out", since taxi passengers could avoid paying their fare by entering it through one door and disappearing through the other.

In 1979 a small studio theatre opened on the pub's first floor, as the Old Red Lion Theatre Club. Under artistic director Charlie Hanson, it became a place for actors, directors, designers, writers and technicians to experiment. After the King's Cross fire in 1987, the theatre was threatened with closure due to the tightening of fire regulations. New artistic director Ken McClymont raised funds to keep the theatre from closing.

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Answer 9

Peacock Inn, Islington

The Peacock Inn is a former public house at 11 Islington High Street, London, that dates from 1564.

The pub closed in 1962 although the building still stands.

The inn features in Tom Brown's Schooldays as the inn at which Tom stays prior to travelling to Rugby School. It is also mentioned in Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby as the place where Nicholas stops on his coach journey to Yorkshire.

Coordinates: 51°31′57″N 0°06′23″W / 51.5324°N 0.1065°W / 51.5324; -0.1065

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Answer 10

Slug and Lettuce, Islington

The Slug and Lettuce is a Grade II listed public house at 330 Upper Street and Islington Green, Islington, London.

It was built in the mid-late 19th century, and was known as "The Fox" until 1984. It was the first ever Slug and Lettuce, which is now one of the UK's leading pub chains.

Coordinates: 51°32′12″N 0°06′11″W / 51.53664°N 0.10316°W / 51.53664; -0.10316

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