Highbury New Park

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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 Highbury Quadrant in the north to Highbury Grove in the south.

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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

In literature

14 Highbury New Park is the setting of The Ghost Downstairs by Leon Garfield (1972).

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References

  1. Pevsner, Nikolaus & Bridget Cherry (2002). The buildings of England London 4: North. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. p. 693. ISBN   0300096534.
  2. "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.

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