Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
While the Seven Sisters road is, of course, part of the parish and always has been, the bad lands of Finsbury Park would never normally be considered part of 'Islington' when the place name is used in the context of describing the affluent patches either side of Upper Street. (Like Barnsbury when Tony Blair lived).

I used to live yards from Jezza's in the 90s and it was basically crawling with gangsters. It's still mainly Lycamobile shops and halal butchers, so hardly the 'posh' Islington that fits the anti-Corbz narrative.
Which road does he actually live on? For some reason I always assumed it was one of those on the east side of Upper Street, behind Essex Road.