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The quarterly Islington Archaeology and History Journal is sent free to members. If you would like to write something, share a memory or ask a question about Islington's past, please email the editor on news [at] iahs.org.uk
Contents Winter 2011/12:
News
Modernist gem saved from redevelopment
Joe Orton's defaced books go on show
Heritage centre plans stall Pump House conversion into flats
Letters and your questions
A printing firm in Cross Street; a nursing home and a pub family
The fight for Finsbury Health Centre
A determined campaign to stop the sale of Lubetkin's masterpiece
TV firm boxes clever
The Islington firm that made the first televisions
Christmas at Beale's
North London descends on the Holloway store for some excessive shopping
The Las Vegas of Georgian London
Why couples headed for the Fleet prison area to get married
The garden on the corner
How a small garden on Upper Street came to be
A Stroud Green Road day out
A 1940s coach trip for the workers
Coffin plates
Recognise an
ancestor’s name?
Islington's western shores
An armchair cruise down the Fleet river
Tenement tales
A first-hand account of growing up near Essex Road in the 1930s
Publications and bookshop
Events
Directory of societies and museums
Islington Archaeology & History Society
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