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34-915: The club night started in October 1996 in the Tufnell Park neighbourhood of north London, at a venue called The Boston (The Standells' hit glorifies the U.S. city of Boston, Massachusetts ). It hosted weekly live performances. Past performers have included The White Stripes , The Fleshtones , Billy Childish (of Thee Headcoats , The Buff Medways, and The Musicians of the British Empire), The Woggles, The Von Bondies , The Dirtbombs , Thee Michelle Gun Elephant , The 5.6.7.8's , The Horrors and The Brian Jonestown Massacre . The club has also seen some original 1960s/70s performers, such as The Monks , Kim Fowley , GONN , Radio Birdman , The Rising Storm , and Sky Saxon of The Seeds , grace its stage with PJ Crittenden as

68-530: A long straight section of the Great North Road near Stretton, Rutland , was reputed to be another haunt of Dick Turpin. It was later renamed the Ram Jam Inn after a story from the coaching days. A coach passenger undertook to show the landlady the secret of drawing both mild and bitter beer from the same barrel. Two holes were made and she was left with one thumb rammed against one and the other jammed into

102-571: A mile to the west of what is now the town of Stamford . The Great North Road passed through the centre of Stamford, with two very sharp bends, re-joined the alignment of Ermine Street just before Great Casterton and continued as far as Colsterworth (at the A151 junction). Inns on this section included the George at Stamford and the Bell Inn at Stilton , the original sellers of Stilton cheese . At Colsterworth

136-470: A misidentified medieval moated site. The road has for centuries been an east–west connector between the roads from the hearts of Islington and Camden which converge into a major northern route at Archway market place, across 500 metres of Dartmouth Park district to the north. North-east of Tufnell Park Road the housing is closer to Upper Holloway railway station and so is popularly considered to be Upper Holloway district. On all other sides of

170-419: A mixture of retired merchants and music hall artistes who were rich enough to holiday abroad over winter. He believed that second wave of building around Celia, Hugo, Corinne, Huddleston and Archibald Roads threatened to create a metropolis "from which the rich would soon be going". The private girls' school established at the corner of Carleton and Brecknock Roads ceased in 1878 after many of its pupils drowned in

204-610: Is an area in north London , England, in the London boroughs of Islington and Camden . The neighbourhood is served by Tufnell Park tube station on the Northern Line . Tufnell Park Road, a straight of 1.24 kilometres (0.77 mi) was sometimes conjectured by historians to follow the line of a Roman track. There is no evidence of Roman activity in the area and a supposed Roman camp marked on Dent's 1805 parish map has been shown by Museum of London Archaeology excavations to probably be

238-514: Is dropped off to go walking. His chauffeur, keen to get home for a date with the maid, is killed near Retford . In Cassandra Clare 's Clockwork Princess , the third volume of The Infernal Devices trilogy, Will Herondale takes the road after leaving London on his way to Wales to find Tessa Gray. The road also features in The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells , as the protagonists' brother tries to cross

272-584: Is therefore less arterial which reinforces the loss of its old name "the Great North Road ", a historical coaching road. It specifically serves vehicles driven between the A1 or M1 and the City of London . Rising north of here at Mercers Road, Hackney Brook, culverted today, ran south to cross Holloway Road near Tufnell Park Road and then flowed to Lowman Road, where it turned north-east and ran along Gillespie Road to leave

306-482: The Princess Alice disaster. Whereas arterial roads and railway lines sliced through Kentish Town and Camden in the 19th century, one neat east–west double track skirts the district. Junction Road railway station was an 1872-1943 direct link with central London, superseded in 1907 by the building of the tube station Tufnell Park. The shabby genteel reputation of Tufnell Park made it a standard comic reference in

340-458: The A1, because the modern route bypasses the towns in which the inns are found. The traditional start point for the Great North Road was Smithfield Market on the edge of the City of London . The initial stretch of the road was St John Street which begins on the boundary of the city (the site of the former West Smithfield Bars ), and runs through north London . Less than a hundred metres up St John Street, into Clerkenwell , stood Hicks Hall ,

374-761: The Building Leases he was granted were left unused; his family had a set of rural estates nationwide. The Tufnell Park estate passed to his brother George Foster Tufnell , MP for Beverley (died 1798), then to George's son William Tufnell (died 1809), MP for Colchester, who married in 1804 heiress Mary Carleton (daughter of Thomas Carleton of South Carleton d.1829). Both are buried at St Mary's Islington, hence her maiden name appearing as two street names in N7. The manor then passed to Henry Tufnell (d. 1854), MP for Ipswich and Devonport, Liberal chief whip whose three marriages included two daughters of earls. The sparse remnants of

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408-671: The Great North Road diverges west of the Roman road and continues through Grantham , Newark , Retford and Bawtry to Doncaster . North of Doncaster the Great North Road again follows a short section of Ermine Street, the Roman Rigg or Roman Ridge . Further north the Great North Road crossed the Roman Dere Street near Boroughbridge from where it continued via Dishforth and Topcliffe to Northallerton and then through Darlington , Durham and Newcastle , on to Edinburgh. A road forked to

442-637: The Great North Road joined the Old North Road, an older route which followed the Roman Ermine Street . Here a milestone records mileages to London via both routes: 65 by the Old North Road and 68 by the Great North Road. From Alconbury the Great North Road follows the line of Ermine Street north, through Stilton , and crossed the River Nene at Wansford . Ermine Street crossed the River Welland about

476-484: The Great North Road somewhere near Barnet through a frenzied exodus of refugees from London, driven north by the approach of Martians from the south. In the oft-quoted first part of his essay England Your England , writer George Orwell refers to the "to-and-fro of the lorries on the Great North Road" as being a characteristic fragment of English life. The road is mentioned in Mark Knopfler 's song, "5:15 AM", from

510-496: The Spells. The Professor wanted to concentrate on his main business and the remaining partner PJ decided not to continue under the "Dirty Water Club" name without him. Monthly live music events continued to take place under the auspices of Dirty Water Records and at a variety of venues. PJ is now retired from the gig promoting hobby but a 25th anniversary reunion show was planned for October 2021. Tufnell Park Tufnell Park

544-427: The area around Carleton Road. In 1865 the scheme was taken up by George Truefitt who developed most of the local villas and St. George's Church (1865), built for Anglican secessionists . The housing stock was of a solid nature, and Tufnell Park kept its good name until the end of the century. Charles Booth in his survey of London Life and Labour reported that the older streets (Anson Road and Carleton Road) housed

578-414: The area became the property of William Tufnell who was granted the manor of Barnsbury by his father-in-law Sir William Halton. The manor house (now demolished) stood on the site of the large Odeon cinema at the end of Tufnell Park Road where it meets the A1 (Holloway Road). The manor's gateposts survive along the west of Tufnell Park Road. Tufnell petitioned Parliament for authority to develop his estate but

612-677: The area is Tufnell Park on the Northern line (a London Underground station ). The nearest London Overground and Thameslink stations are the same distance from the centre of the area (as defined by nearest station), in neighbouring districts equally named after their stations: London Buses routes 4 , 134 and 390 as well as Night Bus N20 serve the area. This 5-acre (2.0 ha) space provide Islington's only full-size grass football pitch, shared by clubs. Adjoining this former home ground of Tufnell Park F.C. , sectioned off are: Great North Road (Great Britain) The Great North Road

646-464: The booker/DJ/promoter and Professor Blinding as the sound and equipment expert. The club night's influence was widespread, with venues in both Australia and Italy starting up club nights named "Dirty Water" and with PJ Crittenden, the club's promoter and regular DJ being invited to perform at festivals all across Europe and in the USA. The in-house record label, Dirty Water Records , was launched in 2004 with

680-647: The building was demolished in 1782. The Great North Road followed St John Street to the junction at the Angel Inn where the local road name changes from St John Street to Islington High Street . When the General Post Office at St Martin's-le-Grand , in the historic Aldersgate ward, was built in 1829, coaches started using an alternative route, now the modern A1 road, beginning at the Post Office and following Aldersgate Street and Goswell Road before joining

714-491: The debut single by The Dirty, followed up by a 7-inch EP by Thee Exciters in 2005 and then, after the re-release of the classic 1979 Lyres single How Do You Know? c/w Don't Give It Up Now in May 2007, the release schedule was increased to pretty much one release per month. The Dirty Water Club held its last night at The Boston venue on 19 June 2009, the final bill being original 1960s garage band GONN , The Masonics and Speak &

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748-461: The first purpose-built sessions house for the Middlesex justices of the peace. The Hall was built in 1612, on an island site in the middle of St John Street (where St John's Lane branches to the west); this building was used as the initial datum point for mileages on the Great North Road (despite not being located at the very start of the road). Its site continued to be used for this purpose even after

782-508: The freehold passed to Henry Archibald Tufnell (d 1898) who died with no children, and then to Lt Col Edward Tufnell (d. 1909) HM Inspector of Schools, Factory Commissioner, Director Greenwich Hospital. Serious building began in 1845 with a scheme sponsored by Henry Tufnell and designed by John Shaw Jr. , who had laid out the Eton Estate in Chalk Farm. This initial work was largely limited to

816-567: The gateway to such 'exotic' destinations as Nottingham . The Lord Peter Wimsey short story "The Fantastic Horror of the Cat in the Bag" by Dorothy L. Sayers features a motorcycle chase along it. Similarly, Ruined City by Nevil Shute features an all night drive from Henry Warren's house in Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, along the road as far as Rowley and then to Greenhead near Hadrian's Wall, where Warren

850-537: The left at the bridge in Boroughbridge to follow Dere Street, and Scotch Corner to Penrith and on to Glasgow. Part of this route was the original A1, with a local road from Scotch Corner via Barton to Darlington making the link back to the old Great North Road. In the first era of stage coaches York was the terminus of the Great North Road. Along the route, Doncaster– Selby –York was superseded by Doncaster– Ferrybridge –Wetherby–Boroughbridge–Northallerton–Darlington,

884-556: The mid-nineteenth century coach services could not compete with the new railways. The last coach from London to Newcastle left in 1842 and the last from Newcastle to Edinburgh in July 1847. The highwayman Dick Turpin 's flight from London to York in less than 15 hours on his mare Black Bess is the most famous legend of the Great North Road. Various inns along the route claim Turpin ate a meal or stopped for respite for his horse. Harrison Ainsworth , in his 1834 romance Rookwood , immortalised

918-432: The more direct way to Edinburgh, the final destination. The first recorded stage coach operating from London to York was in 1658 taking four days. Faster mail coaches began using the route in 1786, stimulating a quicker service from the other passenger coaches. In the "Golden Age of Coaching", between 1815 and 1835, coaches could travel from London to York in 20 hours, and from London to Edinburgh in 45 1 ⁄ 2 hours. In

952-543: The nineteenth and twentieth centuries. George and Weedon Grossmith locate their aspirational Mr Pooter in Tufnell Park (Upper Holloway) in Diary of a Nobody . Julian and Sandy the camp BBC home service comedians frequently referenced Tufnell Park as did The Guardian newspaper's Biff cartoon in the 1980s. Between 1999 and 2001, Tufnell Park was the location for Channel 4's comedy drama, Spaced . The focal point of defining

986-547: The old route close to the Angel. The Angel Inn itself was an important staging post. From Highgate the original route is bypassed and is now called the A1000 road through Barnet to Hatfield . From there it largely followed the course of the current B197 road through Stevenage to Baldock . Roughly taking the route of the A1, the next stages were Biggleswade and Alconbury , again replete with traditional coaching inns. At Alconbury,

1020-480: The other; the trickster then made off. In literature Jeanie Deans of Sir Walter Scott 's novel The Heart of Midlothian travels through several communities on the Great North Road on her way to London. The road features in The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens . Part of the J. B. Priestley novel The Good Companions mentions the road, which represented to protagonist Jess Oakroyd (a Yorkshireman)

1054-430: The ride. Historians argue that Turpin never made the journey, claiming that the ride was by John Nevison , "Swift Nick", a highwayman in the time of Charles II, 50 years before Turpin who was born and raised at Wortley near Sheffield. It is claimed that Nevison, in order to establish an alibi, rode from Gad's Hill, near Rochester, Kent , to York (some 190 miles (310 km)) in 15 hours. The Winchelsea Arms , an inn on

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1088-488: The road is Tufnell Park based on nearest rail/tube station. The road which Tufnell Park Road links have been greatly alleviated from sole principal status by diverting in the 20th century the A1 through Edgware where the M1 also runs instead of its old route through High Barnet , converging the route with the straighter A41 road from Marylebone . The A1 road in the east of Tufnell Park

1122-410: The traditional bounds of Islington at Mountgrove Road. For centuries this northern part of the ancient parish of Islington was part of many square miles renowned for dairy farms which kept the City of London and neighbouring north and west parts supplied with milk . It kept a rural air well into the 19th century in its important role as a base for a number of dairies supplying the capital. In 1753

1156-468: Was the main highway between England and Scotland from medieval times until the 20th century. It became a coaching route used by mail coaches travelling between London , York and Edinburgh . The modern A1 mainly parallels the route of the Great North Road. Coaching inns, many of which survive, were staging posts providing accommodation, stabling for horses and replacement mounts. Nowadays virtually no surviving coaching inns can be seen while driving on

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