The London pleasure gardens of the eighteenth century

by Warwick William Wroth; Arthur Edgar Wroth

VIEWS.

1. Highbury Barn (gabled buildings), an etching from a drawing by B. Green, 1775 (W. Coll.).

2. Highbury Assembly House, near Islington, kept by Mr. Willoughby, 1792, print published in 1792 by Sayer (W. Coll.; also Crace. Cat. p. 603, No. 182).

3. “Highbury Barn, Islington,” engraving published May 1, 1819, for R. Ackermann.

4. Highbury Barn (exterior) (circ. 1835), engraving in Cromwell’s Islington, p. 247, J. and H. S. Storer, del. et. sc.

5. “The Leviathan Platform, Highbury Barn,” woodcut in Illustrated London News, July 1858.

6. Two views of “The Gardens, Highbury Barn Tavern” (circ. 1851), in Tallis’s Illustrated London, ed. Gaspey.

THE DEVIL’S HOUSE, HOLLOWAY.

This place, in spite of its unpromising name, deserves a brief notice as a quiet summer resort of Londoners.

The Devil’s House was a moated timber building which originally formed the manor-house of Tolentone (afterwards Highbury) Manor. It stood on the east of Devil’s Lane, previously (before 1735) called Tallington or Tollington Lane, and now known as the Hornsey Road. It was within two fields of Holloway Turnpike.[177]