The Angel, Islington Gaiman's fantasy television series "Neverwhere" has a character named Angel Islington, after the inn. "The Angel, Islington" is the opening track on singer/songwriter Frank Turner's album "Positive Songs for Negative People". Citations Sources The Angel, Islington The Angel, Islington is a historic landmark and a series of buildings that have stood on the corner of Islington High Street and Pentonville Road in Islington, London, England. The land originally belonged to the Clerkenwell Priory and has had various properties built on it since the 16th century. The site was bisected by the New Road, which opened in 1756, and properties on
The Angel, Islington century. The inn was the subject of William Hogarth's 1747 drawing, "The Stage-Coach, Or The Country Inn Yard", which depicted busy coaching inn trade and traffic. In his book "The Inns and Taverns of Old London" published in 1909, Henry C. Shelley said "The Angel dates back to before 1665... In the seventeenth century and later, as old pictures testify, the inn presented the usual features of a large old country hostelry." The building of the New Road in 1756 bisected the Angel Inn site and the stable buildings were cut off on the southern side. The inn was on