Time Out's guide to Islington - Islington Council

RICHARD ROWLAND, ANDREW BRACKENBURY
Perry’s ‘The Walthamstow
Tapestry’ until Nov 7.
16 Wharf Rd, N1 7RW
(7336 8109, victoriamiro.com)
�Angel FREE
Museums
Arsenal Museum
A temple to Gunners
memorabilia. Seek out
Michael Thomas’s
championship-winning
boots from 1989 and
Charlie George’s FA Cup
Final shirt from ’71. There
are stadium tours too.
Northern Triangle
Building, Emirates
Stadium, N5 1BU
(arsenal.com) �Arsenal
London Canal Museum
Housed in a former ice
warehouse, the Canal
Museum celebrates
London’s historic
waterways, once a vital
transport network.
12-13 New Wharf Rd,
N1 9RT (7713 0836,
canalmuseum.org.uk )
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BANKSY WALLS
Islington Council
takes a common-sense
approach to Banksy’s
graffiti art and only
removes it where
residents complain or
find it offensive. Thus
the area is one of the
best places to spot the
stencil masterpieces.
Some pieces, like the
figures saluting a
Tesco flag on Essex
Road, have been
protected with
Perspex, though sadly
that hasn’t stopped
various attempts to
deface it. The ‘Tate
Gallery’ piece on
Martineau Road,
opposite the Arsenal
Stadium, has had to be
restored several times
– it shows a gallery
employee guarding an
empty frame behind a
velvet rope, though
Archway
the frame sometimes
contains the words
‘Smash the System’.
Meanwhile you can
spot various examples
of Banksy’s rodent
obsession: the famous
‘Ratapult’ on
Whitecross Street
shows a cat using a
spoon-based seesaw
to fling a caped rat into
the air. And Exmouth
Market is blessed with
two Banksys, both
distinctly sinister: one
depicts an alien-faced
man sitting at an
outdoor café table; the
other shows a robot
arm reaching through
a window to grab a
child off the street. At
Archway, the hitchhiker
to ‘Anywhere’
stands at the foot of
Highgate Hill, opposite
McDonalds.
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