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Places of interest in SE15
All Hallows ¢ All Hallows ¢ All Hallows Staining ¢ Cross Bones ¢ Enon Chapel ¢ Holy Trinity the Less ¢ Holy Trinity, Minories ¢ St Alban, Wood Street ¢ St Alphage London Wall ¢ St Andrew ¢ St Antholin ¢ St Botolph's Aldgate ¢ St Dionis Backchurch ¢ St Matthew Friday Street ¢ St Helen's Bishopsgate ¢ St James Duke's Place ¢ St John the Evangelist ¢ St John Zachary ¢ St Katherine ¢ St Leonard, Eastcheap ¢ St Martin Outwich ¢ St Martin Pomary ¢ St Martin Vintry ¢ St Mary Aldermanbury ¢ St Mary Colechurch ¢ St Mary Magdalen ¢ St Mary Somerset ¢ St Mary Woolchurch Haw ¢ St Mary Woolnoth ¢ St Michael Queenhithe ¢ St Michael, Cornhill ¢ St Mildred, Poultry ¢ St Olave ¢ St Peter le Poer ¢ St Peter, Paul's Wharf ¢ St Sepulchre
The New Cross Lambs (1934?35), then the New Cross Tamers (1936) speedway teams raced there before the second world war. The New Cross Rangers speedway team rode at the venue from 1937 to 1963.[4]
David Thorp's appointment as Director in 1992 brought what then came to be known as the South London Gallery into its present phase, when it espoused Britart and staged significant "cutting edge" exhibitions.
The surface platforms and their buildings are still in place and are visible, where not obscured by trees on the sides of the cutting. A surviving station building from the GNR station, now a private house, may be seen from Priory Gardens. The surface station and overground tunnels have sometimes been used for filming and have appeared in several productions, notably the feature film Paperhouse, the TV series Messiah and the Steven Wilson music documentary film Insurgentes.
The hilltop village of Islington originally consisted of two streets in addition to the High Street: Upper Street and Lower Street, which diverged from the High Street at Islington Green and both date back to at least the 12th century.[20]Henry VIII hunted duck in the ponds off Upper Street,[21] while Walter Raleigh lived in Upper Street and owned a pub in Lower Street.[22] Lower Street has since been renamed Essex Road.
Information by Wikipedia.com
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