Highbury New Park

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.

The former home of David Gestetner at number 124.

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

In The Ghost Downstairs by Leon Garfield, Mr. Fast the main protagonist has a ground floor apartment at 14 Highbury New Park. His nemesis Mr. Fishbane, and the eponymous ghost, have the basement flat in the same building.

See also

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.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Further reading
  • "Highbury New Park. A nineteenth-century middle-class suburb" by T.F.M.Hinchcliffe in London Journal, 1981, pp. 29–44.

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