IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Drayton Park, LONDON, N5 1LU
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Drayton Park, N5 1LU by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (203 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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Arsenal tube station
The station frontage appears incongruously perched between Victorian terraced houses in Gillespie Road, N5. In fact it was opened in 1906 as Gillespie Road station and there is a photograph of it, a hundred years ago in 1907, shortly after it opened, in the London Transport Museum archive here http://photos.ltmcollection.org/images/max/73/9887773.jpg
Arsenal Football Club started using nearby Highbury as their ground in 1913, and their former manager, Herbert Chapman, was instrumental in getting the name of the station changed to the name of the club. In 1932 it was renamed to Arsenal (Highbury Hill), but the extension was rapidly dropped. Highbury Hill is the name of the road leading down to the station from which the photograph was taken. Some Gillespie Road nameplates remain on the tiled walls inside the station today. In the 1930s too the station frontage was widened with the demolition of some houses; hence the discrepancy between the widths of the frontage in the 1907 and 2007 images.
In 2006 Arsenal FC moved to the new Emirates Stadium, and local residents began a campaign to get the name of the station changed back to Gillespie Road. However the station is still within easy walking distance of the new stadium so the name appears to be here to stay.
Am I alone in thinking that the original 1906 Edwardian façade appears more in tune with the surrounding buildings than the current one?
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 31 Jul 2007
0.02 miles
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Arsenal Station, London N4
The original tiled name for what is now Arsenal Station on the Piccadilly Line. This image taken on the southbound platform shows the original name of the station - Gillespie Road - in the tiled name, which was the original way a lot of the early underground stations were labelled.
Image: © Christine Matthews
Taken: 3 Oct 2008
0.02 miles
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Elfort Road
Looming over the buildings at the end of corner of the street, the former Highbury stadium of Arsenal FC, now converted into flats.
Image: © Christopher Hilton
Taken: 19 Jan 2017
0.02 miles
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Highbury: crowds head for the Tube station
Following a concert by the band Coldplay at Arsenal FC's Emirates Stadium, thousands of attendees make their way along Gillespie Road towards Arsenal station.
Image: © Chris Downer
Taken: 4 Jun 2012
0.03 miles
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Way Out sign, Arsenal Station, London N4
One of the original tiled Way Out signs at Arsenal Station. This one was on the southbound platform of the Piccadilly Line. A fine example of the original colour scheme for these stations.
Image: © Christine Matthews
Taken: 3 Oct 2008
0.03 miles