The Angel, Islington 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 site have been rebuilt several times up to the 20th century. The corner site gave its name to Angel tube station, opened in 1901, and the surrounding Angel area of London. The
Morecambe Euston Road railway station new island platforms were built by the LNWR, bring the total number of faces in use to five. After the 1923 Grouping, the station came under the control of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway along with its erstwhile Midland rival half a mile away and so was officially designated as "Euston Road" from 2 June 1924 (the Midland station becoming on the same date). Under LMS auspices Promenade would become the town's principal station, but the volume of summer holiday traffic to the resort was such that Euston Road continued to be heavily used - the 1932 timetable for