Holloway Road
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Holloway Road is a road in London. It is the name of the A1 as it passes through Holloway, in the London Borough of Islington. The road starts at the Archway, near Archway tube station, then heads south-east, past Upper Holloway railway station, Whittington Park, past the North London campus of London Metropolitan University near Nag's Head, past Holloway Road tube station, and the main campus of the university, and then becomes Highbury Corner, near Highbury & Islington station. It is one of the most important high street shopping destinations in North London.
The famous record producer Joe Meek, responsible amongst other things for Telstar by The Tornados, a massive UK and US no. 1 record in 1962, lived, worked, and committed suicide at 304 Holloway Road, where he is commemorated by a blue plaque.
The road was originally referred to as Hollow Way, a reference to its poor, potholed road surface.
See also
- Longest streets in London
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