LONDON on the Ground

Islington’s cricketing legacy includes Lord's, the MCC, Middlesex County Cricket Club and women’s county cricket. The Gentlemen’s Club playing on White Conduit Fields, by Robert Dighton 1784. Source: Yale Centre for British Art, public domain. Today, Islington is well known as the home of Arsenal Football Club, while the sport of cricket hardly features. The borough is home to only one public cricket pitch (Wray Crescent off Hornsey Road), but Islington played an important ro

A one-off 19th century square in the Barnsbury area of Islington. Lonsdale Square, Barnsbury, Islington Praised as "a unique, intense and immaculately composed piece of design" by Historic England, much of the square is Grade II* listed. Walks available for booking For a schedule of forthcoming London On The Ground guided walks, please click here. Built between 1838 and 1845, when the majority of garden squares adopted the neo-classical look of the Georgian era, Lonsdale Squa

An old greetings card shows 'The Village of Islington or Iseldon In the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I'. I recently came across an old...