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Highbury Corner with inner motorway box
A GLC mock-up of how Highbury Corner would have looked with an unobtrusive little motorway running right through it....
This was planned in the late 1960s, and was to have been part of the London Inner Motorway Box, only parts of which were built. It would have connected Westway in the (er) west with the section of what is now the A406 down to the Blackwall Tunnel in the east, by way of Camden, Islington and Dalston. As you can see, the motorway would have more or less followed the line of the North London line (as it would have along most of its route), which is crammed in against the motorway cutting in this picture. The Georgian terraces on the north side of St Pauls Road would have been demolished.
To the left of the picture is the Highbury Corner high-rise, still under construction. To the top left is Highbuty and Islington Station (luxuriously accomodated here in what appears to be a shoe box) and the start of Holloway Road.
To the left is Calabria Road, flanked by the line linking the North London line to the Great Northern Line via the tunnel under Highbury Fields and Drayton Park. And in the middle is Corsica Street - but can anyone identify any of these buildings, including the large white one looking a bit like a garage?
This is the best resolution I can find I'm afraid. Perhaps the GLC wasn't keen for residents to have too good a view of the planning disaster it had in mind for our neighbourhood.
www.larpnet.com/highburyandislington/
Highbury Corner with inner motorway box
A GLC mock-up of how Highbury Corner would have looked with an unobtrusive little motorway running right through it....
This was planned in the late 1960s, and was to have been part of the London Inner Motorway Box, only parts of which were built. It would have connected Westway in the (er) west with the section of what is now the A406 down to the Blackwall Tunnel in the east, by way of Camden, Islington and Dalston. As you can see, the motorway would have more or less followed the line of the North London line (as it would have along most of its route), which is crammed in against the motorway cutting in this picture. The Georgian terraces on the north side of St Pauls Road would have been demolished.
To the left of the picture is the Highbury Corner high-rise, still under construction. To the top left is Highbuty and Islington Station (luxuriously accomodated here in what appears to be a shoe box) and the start of Holloway Road.
To the left is Calabria Road, flanked by the line linking the North London line to the Great Northern Line via the tunnel under Highbury Fields and Drayton Park. And in the middle is Corsica Street - but can anyone identify any of these buildings, including the large white one looking a bit like a garage?
This is the best resolution I can find I'm afraid. Perhaps the GLC wasn't keen for residents to have too good a view of the planning disaster it had in mind for our neighbourhood.
www.larpnet.com/highburyandislington/