Home Posts tagged Finsbury Park

Finsbury Park

Charles Costa: singer songwriter

302
Everyone has a story. The singer who was King Charles, now known as Charles Costa, began his Knock Knock tour in Finsbury Park (not the park, a small N4 garden!). What was it like asks Nicola Baird Islington Faces insists that King Charles is a singer songwriter, but it clearly…

John Mackie: fruit and veg shop owner

677
Everyone has a story. Here John Mackie talks about growing up in Islington, early starts and how he became a professional footballer. Plus, insight into his day-to-day life running a fabulous greengrocer, Christmas tree and flower shop, White Brothers Fruit & Veg, on Blackstock Road, N4. Interview by Nicola Baird…

Tales from the Finsbury Parker newsletter 1975-2001

539
Everyone has a story. Demolition, campaigns to bring in pedestrian crossings and a street party offering anaconda kebabs – this is just a fraction of the community building around the streets of Finsbury Park that you can discover by looking through old copies of the ‘Finsbury Parker’ newsletter. Report by…

Anna Stishova: Instagram’s hijabi kayaker

686
  Everyone has a story. Meet Anna Stishova whose teenage love of kayaking in Siberia helped her seek out paddle opportunities in the UK. Now she’s a kayaking instructor and a paddlesports leader taking out trips with kayakers and paddleboarders, despite being based first in Islington, then Bolton. Interview by…

Adam Hardy: community activist 

884
Neighbourhood Forum Finsbury Park member Adam Hardy has an innovative idea to help us all figure out our carbon footprint, reduce our carbon usage and trade carbon allowances locally in a bid to help tackle the climate crisis and speed up the UK’s energy transition away from fossil fuel. Interview…

Nadine Mellor: Frock Up Friday highlights

1344
Everyone has a story. Dressing up one day a week since the start of the 2020 lockdown – and then for the next 100 weeks – has given Nadine Mellor the chance to review her life via the memories triggered by what she wore. Here she talks about the joys…

Dan Miller: M&S Energy Operations Manager

1220 0
    Everyone has an energy story #9 Q: What’s something easy that I can do that will make a big difference? You can switch your electricity supply to a 100% renewable energy supplier. There are a range of suppliers, such as Bulb, Ecotricity, Good Energy, Octopus and others, the…

Jay Adeyemi: Finsbury Park TOLO rail organiser

1509 0
Everyone has an energy story #4. Just like Covid-19, climate change effects everyone, but not equally. We all know that climate change is making some bits of the world harder to live in but did you know that we’re already seeing people having to move because their homes and livelihoods…

Martin McKenzie: Big Issue seller

1106
Everybody has a story. Martin McKenzie can often be seen selling the Big Issue outside Tesco and Sainsbury’s on Stroud Green Road. But his dream is to run a mobile bike repair business. Interview by Nicola Baird “I was looking for the Big Issue office, in Finsbury Park, and then…

Ant O’Neill: Moomin translator

1653
Everybody has a story. Here’s how wordsmith Ant O’Neill from Archway turned an interest in Tove Jansson into a professional passion for this Finnish writer who created satirical wartime cartoons, birthed the Moomins and wrote autobiographical best-sellers like the ‘Summer Book’. Interview by Nicola Baird over Zoom. Photos by Kimi…