The current building, with its distinctive cupola.

The Angel was originally an inn near a toll gate on the Great North Road (at what is now the corner of Islington High Street and Pentonville Road), but now refers to this part of Islington in London. The corner itself is actually in Finsbury which was a separate borough until 1965 when the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury merged with the Metropolitan Borough of Islington to form the London Borough of Islington. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (768x986, 236 KB)The Angel, Islington. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (768x986, 236 KB)The Angel, Islington. ... Inns are establishments where travellers can procure food, drink, and lodging. ... A toll road, turnpike or tollpike is a road on which a toll authority collects a fee for use. ... Sign at Junction 1 of the A1(M) at South Mimms in Hertfordshire The A1, at 409 miles (658 km) long, is the longest numbered British road. ... Pentonville Road is road in central London that runs west to east from Kings Cross to City Road. ... Islington is an inner-city district in north London. ... For other uses, see London (disambiguation). ... Finsbury is a place in the south of the London Borough of Islington. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... The Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury was a metropolitan borough within the County of London from 1899 to 1965, when it was amalgamated with the Metropolitan Borough of Islington to form the London Borough of Islington. ... The Metropolitan Borough of Islington was a metropolitan borough within the County of London from 1899 to 1965, when it was amalgamated with the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury to form the London Borough of Islington. ... Arms of Islington London Borough Council Islington Town Hall Islington is a borough of London to the north of the City of London, west of Hackney, east of Camden, and south of Haringey. ...

Thomas Paine may have stayed at the inn after he returned from France in 1790 and it is believed that he wrote passages of the Rights of Man whilst staying at the nearby Red Lion, now Old Red Lion, in St. John Street. The original building was rebuilt in 1819 and became a coaching inn; the first staging post outside of City of London. It became a local landmark and was mentioned in Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens "The coach rattled away and, turning when it reached the Angel at Islington, stopped at length before a neat house in Pentonville". A new building in pale terracotta stone with a corner cupola replaced the old building in 1899. From 1921 to 1959 the building was used as a Lyons Corner House and is now a Co-operative Bank. Thomas Paine Thomas Paine (January 29, 1737 – June 8, 1809), intellectual, scholar, revolutionary, and idealist, is widely recognized as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. ... 1790 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Thomas Paine wrote the Rights of Man in 1791 as a reply to Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke, and as such, it is a work glorifying the French Revolution. ... In the United Kingdom, from approximately the mid-seventeenth century for a period of about 200 years, the Coaching Inn was a vital part of the inland transport infrastructure. ... For London as a whole, see the main article London. ... Oliver Twist is an 1838 novel by Charles Dickens. ... Charles Dickens was a prolific writer who was almost always working on a new installment for a story and rarely missed a deadline. ... J. Lyons and Co. ... The Co-operative Bank is a co-operative bank trading in the United Kingdom with headquarters in Manchester, UK. It claims to be an ethical bank, and refuses to invest in companies involved in the arms trade, genetic engineering, animal testing and use of sweated labour. ...

In his book "The Inns and Taverns of Old London" published in 1909 Henry C. Shelley has the following to say of the inn:

"The Angel dates back to before 1665, for in that year of plague in London a citizen broke out of his house in the city and sought refuge here. He was refused admission, but was taken in at another inn and found dead in the morning. In the seventeenth century and later, as old pictures testify, the inn presented the usual features of a large old country hostelry. As such the courtyard is depicted by Hogarth in his print of the "Stage Coach." Its career has been uneventful in the main, though in 1767 one of its guests ended his life by poison, leaving behind this message: "I have for fifteen years past suffered more indigence than ever gentleman before submitted to, I am neglected by my acquaintance, traduced by my enemies, and insulted by the vulgar."

The Angel Islington is familiar to many people as a location on the standard British version of the game Monopoly. The Angel Islington also appears as a literal angel in the television series and novel Neverwhere. Monopoly is one of the best-selling commercial board games in the world. ... Neverwhere is an urban fantasy television series by Neil Gaiman. ...

See also

• Angel tube station

On the Monopoly board game, the only country edition with a Public House is the British version (The Angel, Islington). Angel tube station Angel tube station is a London Underground station in The Angel, Islington. ... Monopoly is one of the best-selling commercial board games in the world. ...

External links

• Angel Islington info and directory
• Islington Council
• Weather forecast for Islington