The Angel, Islington the front of the tavern faced the New Road. By the 1850s, the Angel was reported to be in decline. The New Road was renamed Pentonville Road in 1857, and the inn's management successfully put shop fronts on the road around 1870, along with extensive refurbishments. In 1880, the Angel was refurbished internally for William Henry and Richard Baker, later to become large-scale pub owners. In 1883 the stables were sold to the London Street Tramways and the main building was sold to the brewers Truman, Hanbury, Buxton & Co. in 1896. Construction of a new building in pale terracotta
Angel, London Street is Angel Underground station on the London Underground's Northern line (the station entrance was in a building on the corner of City Road and Torrens Street until the station was rebuilt in the 1990s). The Islington Tunnel of the Regent's Canal runs underneath the area from east to west. Angel, London Angel is a locality of Islington in Central and North London, England, within the London Borough of Islington. It is located north-northeast of Charing Cross on the Inner Ring Road at a busy transport intersection. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major