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Anna Mason: Head of Heritage at St John’s Gate

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St John has dominated the southern tip of Clerkenwell for more than 900 years but may still be Islington’s best-kept secret. Here Head of Collections and Public Engagement, Anna Mason, shares the many wonderful offerings from its historic buildings and 100-year-old museum, to its community programmes. Interview by Nicola Baird.…

Lindsey Glen: Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration

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Everyone has a story. The gallery that brought the first bit of destination culture to Kings Cross, the House of Illustration – which was on Granary Square for six years  – now has plans to restore and open up the derelict New River Head industrial site in Clerkenwell as the…

Roberta Wedge: champion for Mary on the Green statue

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Everybody has a story. This is the 200th interview on Islington Faces. Newington Green is sometimes called the “village that changed the world. One of its famous residents was so-called Mother of Feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) who moved here in 1784 to run a girls’ school. During this time she…
Blackstock Road in the 1870s – robbers, trout fishing and aristocrats

Blackstock Road in the 1870s – robbers, trout fishing and aristocrats

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Everyone in Islington’s got a story. Jenny Scarbrough, 63, was about 20 when she met a 96-year-old man who knocked on her door (in N4) asking if he could have a look at his old home. She recalls his amazing story of robbers on Blackstock Road, aristocrats at the top of…