Islington Walks
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Women of the Angel
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Discover the women behind important campaigns covering many aspects of life including a novelist turned rail safety campaigner, the saviour of City Road Basin and Eleanor Marx. Significant women from the world of entertainment include music hall artistes, Lilian Baylis, who saved Sadler's Wells and laid the foundations for many of today's most significant performing arts companies and Dame Judi Dench and her campaign to recreate Shakespeare's Rose Theatre at Islington Green.
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An Islington Watery Walk
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Spas for the taking of health-giving waters, The New River and The Regent's Canal have all played a key role in shaping this part of Islington. Find out about remarkable feats of engineering, see the original well at Sadler's Wells and ponder mysterious 19th century graffiti.
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Islington Pride - 50 Years of LGBT History
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Islington has a strong and well established LGBT+ community, with a long history of campaigning.
The walk includes Islington's significant LGBT "firsts" such as the UK's first gay mayor, MP, march and demonstration as well local characters such as Joe Orton, Derek Jarman and the extraordinary Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. This guided walk was originally developed for Clerkenwell and Islington's Tour Guide Association (CIGA) in partnership with Islington Heritage and funded by Islington's Pride, an Heritage Lottery Fund funded LGBT+archive project. |
The Magic Roundabout
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The streets around Old Street roundabout are packed with street art and public art by artists, local residents and children. From the borders of Hoxton and Shoreditch to Whitecross St and the Barbican discover a constantly changing range of street art and works that reflect the areas rich history. Watch out for vampire bunnies, street signs that have been sneakily changed and visit the cemetery where children donated their pocket money to fund a monument to the creator of Robinson Crusoe.
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