Walks through Islington; comprising an historical and descriptive account of that extensive and important district, both in its ancient and present state: together with some particulars of the most remarkable objects immediately adjacent . rbe/ZT- CofwnAage?v House. J~2( dot, tyso Pu& fry S/ierwvotCS/£6 front, 2Wa,te£tsn, JLa-ne- WALK THE FIRST. 149 particularly deserving notice. We should mention,however, the large Floor-Cloth Manufactory, belong-ing to Messrs. Mann and Sargon, which occurs onthe right, in St. Pancras parish, close to where theCamden Town Road intersects the one we are
Walks through Islington; comprising an historical and descriptive account of that extensive and important district, both in its ancient and present state: together with some particulars of the most remarkable objects immediately adjacent . rbe/ZT- CofwnAage?v House. J~2( dot, tyso Pu& fry S/ierwvotCS/£6 front, 2Wa,te£tsn, JLa-ne- WALK THE FIRST. 149 particularly deserving notice. We should mention,however, the large Floor-Cloth Manufactory, belong-ing to Messrs. Mann and Sargon, which occurs onthe right, in St. Pancras parish, close to where theCamden Town Road intersects the one we are travel-ling. About midway down the Lane, in the fields tothe left, appears a public-house and tea-gardens,known by the name of Copenhagen House, and tradi-tionally said to have been so called from the residenceof a Danish prince or ambassador there during thetime of the great plague. Another account statesthat, towards the beginning of the seventeenth cen-tury, circumstances having caused great numbers ofDanes to resort to the English capital, this house wasopened under the appellation which it still retains bya person of that nation, and greatly patronized by hiscountrymen resident in the metropolis. This storyvery probably refers to the reign of Jame
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