Highbury New Park
The former home of David Gestetner at number 124.
Highbury New Park is a street in Highbury in the London Borough of Islington which runs from in the north to in the south.
Buildings[]
The road was developed by Henry Rydon from 1853 in order to attract prosperous city businessmen to the area[1][2] and there are now a large number of grade II listed Victorian villas in the road.
Notable former residents[]
- C. Washington Eves, No. 49. West Indies Merchant.
- David Gestetner, No. 124. Inventor.
In literature[]
In The Ghost Downstairs by Leon Garfield, Mr. Fast the main protagonist has a ground-floor apartment at 14 Highbury New Park. His nemesis Mr. Fishbane, and the eponymous ghost, have the basement flat in the same building.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus & Bridget Cherry (2002). The buildings of England London 4: North. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. p. 693. ISBN 0300096534.
- ^ "Highbury" in Christopher Hibbert; Ben Weinreb; John Keay; Julia Keay (2010). The London Encyclopaedia. London: Pan Macmillan. p. 398. ISBN 978-0-230-73878-2.
Further reading[]
- "Highbury New Park. A nineteenth-century middle-class suburb" by T.F.M.Hinchcliffe in London Journal, 1981, pp. 29–44.
External links[]
Media related to Highbury New Park at Wikimedia Commons
Coordinates: 51°33′30.76″N 0°5′32.12″W / 51.5585444°N 0.0922556°W
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