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The Caledonian Estate is a Grade II listed, early Edwardian estate towards the northern end of the Caledonian Road in Islington, London. It is situated next to Pentonville Prison . The Estate was built on the site of the classical Caledonian Asylum from which the Road took its name.
Caledonian Road in the London Borough of Islington, England, connects North London, from Camden Road near its junction with Holloway Road, and central London's Pentonville Road in the south. A mile and a half long, it is known colloquially as the Cally and forms the entirety of the A5203 .
Berners Mansions was built in 1897, by Frederick Britton of 469 Caledonian Road, Islington, following demolition of the earlier 18th century shops and houses at nos. 34-36 Berners Street. Occupants of the earlier building included Thomas Filmer & Sons, furniture makers (34 Berners Street); Mr White's, baker (35 Berners Street); and Edward ...
Armoury House Islington: House: 1734-6: 27 August 1957 1195537 ... Caledonian Park Clock Tower: Islington: Clock Tower: 1855: 29 September 1972
Caledonian Park Clock Tower, with the blocks of the estate behind. Market Estate is a public housing estate consisting of 271 flats and maisonettes situated to the north of Caledonian Park in the London Borough of Islington. It is named after the Metropolitan Cattle Market which operated on the site until the 1960s.
The Bemerton Estate is a social housing estate to the north of Bingfield Street and west of Caledonian Road, in the London Borough of Islington. It was built in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and named after Bemerton Street , the northern part of which it replaced.
Its long residence in Islington resulted in the naming of Caledonian Market and the Caledonian Road. [3] In 1852 Queen Victoria became Patron and the Asylum was renamed the Royal Caledonian Schools, although legally it was and still is the "Caledonian Asylum". [3] At that time it catered for about 70 boys and 50 girls. [4]
The market at Smithfield in the City of London has been in operation for over 800 years. By the mid-Victorian era, the development of London had made the transportation of livestock into the centre of the city problematic and in 1852 the Smithfield Market Removal Act was passed, allowing for the construction of a new Metropolitan Cattle Market on the site of a demolished mansion, Copenhagen ...