3 Sept 1688: John Bunyan #poet buried at Bunhill Fields #Finsbury #otd (BM) Died 31 August.
Forward with Finsbury

From 1934 until its dissolution in the London Boroughs reorganisation of 1965, the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury proved a radical and far-sighted body. After the 1936 Public Health (London) Act...

MODERNIST LONDON
#Geograph Picture of the Day from #London 2012 #POTD
#Finsbury #PrioryGreen #flats #Tecton #Lubetkin #Architecture #Brutalist geograph.org.uk/p/3612293 Free to use – please credit Stephen Richards

Congratulations to Dame Emily! 🏅👏🏽👏🏻🥳
We, at Islington South, Finsbury and De Beauvoir are very proud of @emily.thornberry our local MP. We know how hard she works for her constituents, the nation and the Labour Party.

She campaigns for many good causes and candidates all around the borough, nation and in Parliament. Well done!… Dame Emily! 🤩🎖️
#islington #islingtonsouth #finsbury #debeavouir #clerkenwell #canonbury @UKLabour

Finsbury Roads
To your place, where I belong
Seven Sisters, Lea Navigation
Take me home, #Finsbury Roads!

#London #AbandonedThings #SongLyrics #photography #SongSunday #SignsOfTheTimes

3 Sept 1688: John Bunyan #poet buried at Bunhill Fields #Finsbury #otd (BM) Died 31 August.
Nothing is Too Good: 80 Years of the Finsbury Health Centre

Finsbury Health Centre opened on 21st October 1938, and was praised for its architectural design as well as its moral purpose, two things that were seen to go hand in hand. A number of health centres...

MODERNISM IN METRO-LAND

Network #Rail: Commuters look forward to more reliable services as first passenger #trains run to City of #London using digital signalling

The first digitally signalled passenger train operated today on the Northern City Line between #Finsbury Park and #Moorgate after parent company Govia Thameslink #Railway (GTR), Network Rail and Siemens Mobility switched on the system.
https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/commuters-look-forward-to-more-reliable-services-as-first-passenger-trains-run-to-city-of-london-using-digital-signalling

Commuters look forward to more reliable services as first passenger trains run to City of London using digital signalling

Trains run more efficiently because system allows drivers to ‘see’ much further ahead Significant milestone for the £1.4bn government-funded East Coast Digital Programme

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Finsbury Health Centre, Islington

1938

Berthold Lubetkin and Tecton

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#modernism #architecture #london #1930s #finsbury #bertholdlubetkin

Finsbury Health Centre

Finsbury Health Centre 1938 Berthold Lubetkin and Tecton Islington Grade I Health centre designed in a H shaped plan, featuring a curved glass wall and murals by Gordon Cullen. It was the first...

MODERNIST LONDON
3 Sept 1688: John Bunyan #poet buried at Bunhill Fields #Finsbury #otd (BM) Died 31 August.