PENTONVILLE ROAD
Pentonville Road consists mainly of offices and terraced HMOs (Houses of Multiple Occupation) which are typically student rentals. It runs between King’s Cross and Angel and can claim to be a section of London's first bypass - originally built in 1756 to provide a route for herding livestock to Smithfield Market. The next most interesting thing about Pentonville Road would appear to be that it is on the Monopoly board. To quote Frank Drebin in Naked Gun as the petrol tanker crashes into the fireworks factory – “Nothing to see here.” But that hasn't put me off. “Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough, It isn't fit for humans now”. Former Poet Laureate John Betjeman’s parents ran a cabinet-makers business from this row of houses on Pentonville Road. The statue of Betjeman is at nearby St Pancras station. In 1941 the IRA suspected he was a British spy and were thinking o...