Looking across towards the back of Nos. 1-4 Milner Square

The British Syphon Company’s factory was built around 1897 on the site of the former Islington Proprietary School fronting Barnsbury Street and in 1936 expanded into Nos. 1-4 Milner Square. The factory was demolished in 1984 and redeveloped in 1987 as Waterloo Gardens, a block of flats and ground floor commercial, with a rear entrance to its courtyard at the end of Waterloo Terrace and including a reconstructed Nos. 1-4 Milner Square. It seems the developers failed to honour their pledge to reinstate the ornate entrance from Waterloo Terrace shown below, although there is an iron arch over the present entrance which echoes the outline.