Battishill Gardens

Around 1970 Battishill Gardens were created by Islington Council as part of a wholesale redevelopment of the central block (excluding the Almeida Street frontage) with a small park fronting Battishill Street and pairs of maisonettes along Napier Terrace and at the south end of Battishill Street. Designed by Helen Stafford, project architect, they have integral garages, small back yards for the lower maisonettes, and balconies for the upper ones. The original Battishill Street houses were small with tiny back yards, many taken up by WW2 Anderson Shelters, and can be glimpsed at bottom right in the 1947 aerial photograph.