Reader, if of the City, thou mayest probably have seen in the Fields of Islington or Mile-End or, If thou art in the environs of St James ', thou must have observed in the Park with what Ease and Agility a cow, heavy with calf, has rose up at the command of the milkwoman's foot: thus from the mossy bank sprang the DIVINE FARINELLI.

He lives in Islington and drives an Audi, is a supporter of English Premiership football team Tottenham Hotspur and has appeared on fellow comedian Phil Cornwell's Spurs Show podcast.

The Civil Aviation Authority has its head office in the CAA House in Islington, London Borough of Islington.

Islington has a wide variety of transportation services, with direct connections to the suburbs and the City and West End.

Islington also has over 8 tube stations with connections by the tube to all around London.

According to the 2011 census, Islington has the highest population density of local authorities in England and Wales-13, 875 people per km < sup > 2 </ sup >.

Following the property boom in the early 1980s, there has been some gentrification in the area and the council has begun selling some of the grand villas to private developers who have the finances to restore them, e. g. in 2004 Islington council sold four buildings on Highbury New Park to developers for £ 1 million each.

Stepney is an episcopal area in the Anglican Diocese of London, which covers the London boroughs of Hackney, Islington and Tower Hamlets, and has its own suffragan bishop.

Islington grew as a sprawling Middlesex village along the line of the Great North Road, and has provided the name of the modern borough.

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The hill on which Islington stands has long supplied the City of London with water, the first projects drawing water through wooden pipes from the many springs that lay at its foot, in Finsbury.

Angel tube station on Islington High Street has the longest escalator on the London Underground system, at 318 steps.

* Emma Evans, protagonist of Margaret Drabble's novel The Garrick Year ( 1964 ), lives, after she has married her husband David, in " an ordinary nineteenth-century terrace house in Islington, and on either side of the front door stood a small stone lion.

The Civil Aviation Authority has its head office in the CAA House in Islington.

After seeing Kevin Day and Eddie Zibbin ( Pat Condell ) at the Market Tavern in Islington in 1983, he decided to become a comedian and has been a mainstay of the British ' Stand-Up ' circuit ever since.

In past years it has been held at the Business Design Centre in Islington, and the Oxo Tower Wharf.

The University has campuses in the City of London and in the London Borough of Islington, with a museum, as well as archives and libraries.

Islington has several sex businesses ( at least three licensed shops-Private, Adultworld and Soho Original Books-as well as three pornographic cinemas and numerous massage parlors / strip clubs, concentrated on Caledonian Road ).

After a short period as a teacher at Barnsbury Girls ' School in Islington, north London ( 1961 – 1963 ), she has worked as a novelist, biographer and freelance literary critic, contributing regularly to book programmes on television, to BBC Radio 4 and various newspapers and magazines.

St John's Gate has been voted an iconic landmark to represent Islington for the London Olympics 2012.

It is located at Electrowerkz, 7 Torrens Street, Islington, London, UK ( behind Angel tube station ) where it has been in operation since 1987.

The book covers that Orton and Halliwell vandalised have since become a valued part of the Islington Local History Centre collection.

* In The Zoo, a comic opera by Arthur Sullivan and B. C. Stephenson, two of the main characters are the Duke of Islington and his beloved, whom he asks to become the Duchess of Islington.

The largest farming families in what would become New Toronto were the Northcote family to the east around where Seventh Street / Islington Avenue meets Lake Shore Blvd.

The thirteenth century saw Newton become Newington, whilst the prefix ' Stoke ' was added in the area to the north, distinguishing it from Newington Barrow or Newington Berners in Islington.

This outlying area of Islington carries a surprising wealth of historic architecture and Newington Green has become a conservation area.

In 1912, the Islington Commission was appointed to propose reforms, but its report could be published only in 1917, by which time its recommendations had become outdated on account of the First World War and Edwin Montagu's August Declaration ( presented to the House of Commons on August 20, 1917 ) that in response to local demand the government wished to extend the representation of the native Indian population in the ICS.

It is widely believed the two met in the now-defunct Granita restaurant in Islington, London, following the death of Labour Party leader John Smith on 12 May, and Brown agreed, in return for certain promises, that he would stand aside to allow Blair to become leader of the party, and possible future prime minister.

The name then later mutated to Isledon, which remained in use well into the 17th century when the modern form arose .< ref name = Growth >< cite >' Islington: Growth ', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 8: Islington and Stoke Newington parishes ( 1985 ), pp. 9-19 accessed: 13 March 2007 </ ref > In medieval times, Islington was just one of many small manors in the area, along with Bernersbury, Neweton Berewe or Hey-bury, and Canonesbury ( Barnsbury, Highbury and Canonbury-names first recorded in the 13th and 14th centuries ).

Holloway in Islington is home to Freightliners City Farm which is one of the many city farms throughout London.

The name later mutated to Isledon, which remained in use well into the 17th century when the modern form arose .< ref name = Growth >< cite >" Islington: Growth ", A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 8: Islington and Stoke Newington parishes ( 1985 ), pp. 9-19 accessed: 13 March 2007 </ ref > In medieval times, Islington was just one of many small manors thereabouts, along with Bernersbury, Neweton Berewe or Hey-bury and Canonesbury ( Barnsbury, Highbury and Canonbury – names first recorded in the 13th and 14th centuries ).

Many whole terraces are listed including much of Liverpool Road ( one side of which is in Barnsbury ) and Islington High Street / Upper Street.

* The Angel public house ( the original one, now a Co-op bank-not the newer Wetherspoon's ), Islington High Street.

A copy of Clouds of Witness was one of the volumes modified by Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell in their adulterations of library books from the Islington and Hampstead libraries in the early 1960s.

On 3 May 2002 she was elected to Islington London Borough Council as one of the three councillors representing Hillrise Ward.

It is one of the main shopping streets in North London, and carries the A1 road as it passes through Holloway, in the London Borough of Islington.

Highbury Corner is the site of Highbury & Islington station, one of London's most important transport interchanges.

The street connects the City to the London Boroughs of Islington and Hackney, and was constructed around 1846 as one of the new approaches to London Bridge.

Scott and Thistlethwaite recorded " A Girl Called Johnny " in Spring of 1982, and with Wilkinson and bassist Nick Linden they recorded further new tracks in November 1982 at Redshop Studio, Islington, of which one, " I Will Not Follow ", appears on this album.

The Islington Liberal Democrats advocated the reopening of the station in their 2006 local election manifesto, and at least one candidate for the Islington Conservative Party has similarly campaigned for the station to be reopened.

Islington Council approved Arsenal's plans on 10 December 2001 as 34 councillors voted in favour of the Ashburton Grove development with seven against and one abstention.

In 1832, when just of age, he married Clarissa ( Clara ) Eliza Boddington ( daughter of John Boddington ), and adopted her surname, becoming Henry John Boddington, in order to distinguish his work from that of his brothers and other relatives ; They had one child, Edwin Henry Boddington, ( 14 October 1836, Islington – 1905 ), who also became a painter.

It was well represented in what one might call the C2D areas, and was also well represented in market areas of London such as Chapel Market Islington, Church Street Paddington, and Leyton High Road.

In an attempt to work around this poor reputation and make it easier to raise funds, the next bill for an extension of the line was submitted in November 1900 by a notionally separate company, the Islington and Euston Railway ( I & ER ), albeit one that shared its chairman with the C & SLR.

The Angel Islington is one of these ; and the Angel tube station station was named after the pub.

Davisville is one of only three stations in the subway system where a track signal is publicly accessible ( the others being Union and Islington ).

Born in Islington, London, the son of a naval petty officer who organised concert parties Connor first appeared on the stage at the age of 2 as an organ-grinder's monkey in one of his father's shows, in Portsmouth.