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Islington is in the foreground, with part of Barnard Park in the lower right corner. Corams Fields and the Royal Mail sorting office at Mount Pleasant are to the right of centre with Westminster and the Thames to the top right.
©Thomas Nugent
©Vicky Ayech
Looking south across the canal into the basin. Both this and the City Road basin were once hives of industry, but now are home to luxury flats and design studios.
©Alan Simkins
Taken looking east at the junction with the City Road Basin.
©Alan Simkins
©R Sones
Diners take advantage of the lunchtime sunshine to eat like a Mexican on Upper Street.
©Stephen McKay
©R Sones
The Liverpool Road entrance to the N1 shopping centre is dominated by the angel wings sculpture by Wolfgang Buttress and Fiona Heron.
©Stephen McKay
A no 38 bus on its way from Hackney to Victoria waits for the lights on Islington's ever-busy Upper Street.
©Stephen McKay
Looking west-northwest towards the O2 Academy on the opposite side of Islington High Street.
©Robert Lamb
©David Smith
A stretch of the west side of Upper Street has a raised pavement lined with attractive barriers.
©Stephen McKay
The former agricultural hall was rescued from the threat of demolition in the early 1980s, opening as the Business Design Centre in 1986.
©Malc McDonald
It is fashionable nowadays for bookshops to double as coffee shops - in this case, the Islington branch of Borders, in the N1 shopping centre, incorporates a Starbucks (in spite of the fact that there is another Starbucks a few yards away on Islington High Street!). Two motorbikes are parked outside.
©Stephen McKay
This is the entrance to the N1 shopping centre off Liverpool Road; the centre includes a multi-screen cinema.
©Stephen McKay

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