tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458031571764013912.post802653393699986528..comments2024-03-27T03:22:46.572-07:00Comments on The Cat's Meat Shop: Old IslingtonLee Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09812128348822569086noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458031571764013912.post-46256828098819435582012-07-12T07:37:24.037-07:002012-07-12T07:37:24.037-07:00Cheers for all that detail!
LeeCheers for all that detail! <br /><br />LeeLee Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09812128348822569086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458031571764013912.post-33504597600232595212012-07-12T04:24:30.845-07:002012-07-12T04:24:30.845-07:00Having read this post yesterday, I thought that th...Having read this post yesterday, I thought that this morning I would take a stroll along Colebrooke Row and revisit Lamb's cottage. This alerted me to a second mistake made by Mr Nicholson.<br /><br />Lamb's dwelling is on the left (coming from City Road) and is called Colebrooke Cottage; it bears the number 64 on the door and it faces onto Colebrooke Row but it is <i>not</i> number 64 Colebrooke Row. That honour belongs to a rather nondescript house a 100 yards or so further on (on the right).<br /><br />Colebrooke Row runs parallel to Duncan Terrace and for much of their length these roads are separated by a narrow strip of parkland called Colebrooke Gardens. This was once a stretch of the New River which I assume still runs below, now confined to pipes.<br /><br />By the time we reach Lamb's cottage, the central garden has shrunk to a green strip which could easily be mistaken for a green verge in front of the houses. Nonetheless, it still divides Colebrook Row from Duncan Terrace.<br /><br />If we look at the house just before Lamb's cottage we see that it bears the number 63 and also has affixed to it a plate naming its road as Duncan Terrace. Lamb's cottage, or Colebrooke Cottage (currently occupied by Corvo Books), is therefore <b>number 64 Duncan Terrace</b>.<br /><br />Colebrooke Row carries on for a further 150 yards or so and makes a right-angled left turn to join Essex Road. Its numbering goes horse-shoe fashion, starting on the right at number 1 at the City Road end and then turning back at the Essex Road end where the numbering runs in the opposite direction and is in the 70s. It is only here that there are buildings on both sides of Colebrooke Row. Elsewhere, there is only a single row of houses, a fact that should have alerted our writer to the anomalous siting of Colebrooke Cottage.<br /><br />I can understand how Renton Nicholson could make the mistake as I expect street signage was a lot less clear in his day than it is now and the houses might not have even been numbered then. However, it is just as well to get the facts straight, I think.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458031571764013912.post-62419747629770616022012-07-10T05:28:50.188-07:002012-07-10T05:28:50.188-07:00As one who lives in Islington, I found this intere...As one who lives in Islington, I found this interesting. I noticed, however, that the writer refers to "St John's Street", an error I made myself when new to the area. It is called St John Street, without apostrophe.<br /><br />This caused me to consult the "Map Of London 1868, By Edward Weller". There, the thoroughfare is named as "St John Street Road", a curious doubling, indeed, but still without apostrophe.<br /><br />I am merely being picky, of course, and the above in no way diminishes the interest of the piece which shows, inter alia, how at every age, people have tended to regard the present as inferior to the past, especially to a past illuminated in memory by the golden light of a happy childhood.<br /><br />Lamb's cottage still stands in Colebrook Row, labelled for us to recognize, but it is now a dwelling once more and the name of the soda-water producer has been (almost) forgotten.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com