Long a rural pleasure resort for Londoners it became notorious in 1861, when Edward Giovanelli demolished the old buildings and built a lavish pleasure ground which attracted large crowds, including criminals, pick-pockets and, horror, students. In 1869 some students from Bart's Hospital caused a riot. The local residents had had enough and by 1871 Giovanelli had lost his licence and eventually the pleasure gardens were built over. The carries an 1865 description of "night out in Highbury".
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Highbury Barn
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Highbury Barn
This plaque is no longer in situ. Our picture is taken from 'London Plaques' ...
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Gatti family
Swiss-Italian family. Â Restaurateurs, music hall, theatre and electricity supply entrepreneurs. Four generations of note, all born in Dongio, Val di Blenio, Ticino, Switzerland: Carlo; Agostino (18...
1 memorial
London Mint Office Limited
This seems to be a commercial organisation making and selling coins to collectors, with no connection to the Royal Mint.
1 memorial
Hiram Shorey
Merchant tailor and co-founder of Rotary International. Born Hiram Elroy Shorey in Litchfield, Kennebec, Maine.
1 memorial
Italo Svevo
Businessman and author. Born in Trieste (then part of Austria-Hungary) as Aron Ettore Schmitz. The pseudonym translates as 'Swabian Italian', but as the only definitions of Swabian relate to places...
1 memorial
Harry Selfridge
Born Wisconsin. Too small to join the navy he became a clerk in a department store, where he rose to manager and then set out on his own. Very successful, he "retired" in 1906, moved to London and ...
2 memorials
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