Caledonian Road

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Southern section of Caledonian Road

The Caledonian Road , also known by the nickname Cally made known and under the designation A5203, is a street in the London district of Islington . It begins in the south on Pentonville Road , a good hundred meters east of King's Cross station , and ends in the north on Camden Road , only about 50 meters from Holloway Road (A1) to the east and a good 500 meters from the one to the east Emirates Stadium away.

Transport links and important points

Cattle Market

On the road that crosses Regent's Canal in its southern section is Pentonville Prison , built in 1842, and just a few meters east of Thornhill Square , whose green space was opened to the public in 1947. Previously, this area was privately owned and only accessible to those with a key. In 1953 the park was redesigned on the occasion of the coronation of Elizabeth II and from 1960 onwards the area became increasingly gentrified .

Also on the road was the London Cattle Market from its opening in 1855 until it closed around ninety years later . Immediately across from the Cattle Market were the Beaconsfield Buildings , built in 1879 to provide a comfortable home for the working class. They later became more and more neglected and developed into the largest slum on the west side of Caledonian Road. The site consisted of 480 apartments, in which about 3,000 people lived. In the early 1970s, many of the derelict houses on the west side were demolished and replaced with modern houses.

In the northern part of the street is the London Tube station of the same name , which is on the Piccadilly Line .

Street name

The original name of the street Chalk Road ( Limestone Road ), but the 1815 founded and 1827 in the neighboring Copenhagen Fields moved Royal Caledonian Asylum - a social institution for children of soldiers and sailors of Scottish origin who come in of their service for their country killed were or had suffered physical disabilities and for children of poor Scottish parents who lived in London - later gave the street its current name, which it received in 1861. The asylum was closed and demolished in 1901.

history

The approximately 3 km long road was built from 1826.

In the early days, the road formed a kind of borderline between the area east of the road, in which there was a certain prosperity, and the area to the west of it, which was largely characterized by poverty. But after a large part of the middle class had emigrated at the beginning of the 19th century, the area became increasingly neglected. This change affected both sides of Caledonian Road.

In the middle of the 19th century, many Irish migrants settled in the area of ​​the Caledonian Road. Over time, the Irish community grew and around a hundred years later, in 1955, an arsenal was found in the basement of house number 257. 1978 exploded in front of the nearby point 5 Housman's Bookshop , a letter bomb to the IRA , which probably should explode located under number 492 Post Office near the railway station Kings Cross.

local residents

A famous resident of the street was Randal Keynes , a descendant of Charles Darwin and John Maynard Keynes , who moved there in the early 1980s.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joseph Bullman, Neil Hegarty, Brian Hill: The Secret History of Our Streets - A Story of London , BBC Books, London, 2013, p 230. ISBN 978-1-84990-451-3
  2. ↑ Joseph Bullman, Neil Hegarty, Brian Hill: The Secret History of Our Streets - A Story of London , p 199f
  3. ↑ a b Joseph Bullman, Neil Hegarty, Brian Hill: The Secret History of Our Streets - A Story of London , p 227
  4. ↑ Joseph Bullman, Neil Hegarty, Brian Hill: The Secret History of Our Streets - A Story of London , p 220f
  5. ↑ Joseph Bullman, Neil Hegarty, Brian Hill: The Secret History of Our Streets - A Story of London , p 228
  6. ↑ Joseph Bullman, Neil Hegarty, Brian Hill: The Secret History of Our Streets - A Story of London , p 196
  7. ↑ Joseph Bullman, Neil Hegarty, Brian Hill: The Secret History of Our Streets - A Story of London , p 198
  8. ↑ Hidden London: Caledonian Road, Islington (English; accessed July 7, 2017)
  9. ↑ Joseph Bullman, Neil Hegarty, Brian Hill: The Secret History of Our Streets - A Story of London , p 191
  10. ↑ Joseph Bullman, Neil Hegarty, Brian Hill: The Secret History of Our Streets - A Story of London , p 197
  11. ↑ a b Joseph Bullman, Neil Hegarty, Brian Hill: The Secret History of Our Streets - A Story of London , p 194
  12. ↑ Joseph Bullman, Neil Hegarty, Brian Hill: The Secret History of Our Streets - A Story of London , p 230
  13. ↑ Joseph Bullman, Neil Hegarty, Brian Hill: The Secret History of Our Streets - A Story of London , p 205
  14. ↑ Joseph Bullman, Neil Hegarty, Brian Hill: The Secret History of Our Streets - A Story of London , p 225
  15. ↑ Joseph Bullman, Neil Hegarty, Brian Hill: The Secret History of Our Streets - A Story of London , p 232f

Web links

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Coordinates: 51 ° 32 '53.9 "  N , 0 ° 7' 4.8"  W.