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Jackie Badger: saw the Beatles play Finsbury Park

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Everyone has a story. Jackie Badger saw the Beatles and the Rolling Stones play live in Finsbury Park! The Astoria Finsbury Park (now UKCG church on Seven Sisters Road, just opposite Fontwell Road) used to be London’s hottest venue – and never more so than when the Fab Four came to…

Christopher Curtis: Highbury Corner history man

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Everyone on Islington Faces Blog has a story. Christopher Curtis is well-known in Islington. Find him selling local history and classic football prints and photographs on his Chapel Market stall or join him for a tour of Highbury Corner and Holloway Road for a walk around Joe Orton’s world. Interview by Nicola Baird “I was two…