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Originally Posted by cy_renaica
Quoting Bryan Magee's Clouds of Glory - A Hoxton Childhood (pp 196 -6)
"This film studio, incidentally, is invariably described, even in otherwise reliable reference books as the 'Islington studio'; but it is not in Islington, it is in Hoxton, in the next street to where my grandmother was born - less than two hundred yards from Gopsall Street School and not five hundred yards from my family's shop.... The studio was in the Borough of Shoreditch then and is in the Borough of Hackney now, but it has never been in the Borough of Islington."
Cy
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I think it could be a case of "Estate Agent speak" where, when they say a property is in Islington they don't necessarily mean that it's in the old London "village" of Islington, or even in the London borough of Islington but just that it's near Islington and that's the most desirable location for an address in that area.
Poole Street is definitely in Hoxton which is in the borough of Hackney. But I think that the N1 postcode is the most plausible reason. Most of the N1 postcode is in the borough of Islington. But postcodes don't map exactly onto any other division like village or towns or boroughs
Or it could just be like when I'm travelling and people ask where I live I usually say "Wimbledon" because more people have heard of that than have heard of Morden or the London borough of Merton. Islington is probably better known than Hoxton or Hackney (a Hackney Carriage isn't named after the place in London but is named after the family of that name that developed them)
Steve
07-11-2007, 04:49 PM
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