Hope & Anchor, 207 Upper Street London Greater London N1 1RL

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Listed at 1 Trinity Place, the North side of Islington High Street, in 1856.
A Grade II listed pub, the Hope & Anchor opened its doors to the locals of Islington in 1850. It has also witnessed legendary bands like U2, The Police, and The Stranglers take to the stage, and there are still live music nights regularly, with a theatre upstairs.
It was a Greene King public house in 2017 and March 2026. Greene King has announced plans to sell off, or convert 150 pubs into tenanted or franchised locations, as the UK hospitality sector struggles with rising costs.

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Hope & Anchor, 207 Upper Street, Islington

Upper Street, Islington with the Hope & Anchor at the left side

Both kindly provided by Colleen

Hope & Anchor, 207 Upper Street, N1 - in May 2008

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Residents at this address.

1839/James Lemon/../../../Pigot's Directory *

1841/Henry Levi Walton/../../../Post Office Directory *

1848/Henry Jones/../../../Post Office Directory *

1851/Henry Jones/../../../Post Office Directory *

1856/Henry Jones/../../../Post Office Directory

March 1866/Henry Jones/License renewal/../Clerkenwell News

November 1868/Henry Jones//Outgoing Licensee/../../Era

November 1868/Joseph Hammond/Incoming Licensee/../../Era

14 Nov 1868 licence transfer from H Jones to Joseph Hammond, Morning Advertiser 16 Nov 1868 *+

1869/Mrs F Hammond/../../../Post Office Directory

Oct-Nov 1872 premises known as ‘Hammonds’ at 207 Upper Street for sale owing to ‘serious indisposition’ of licensee e.g. Morning Advertiser 2 Dec 1872 *+

Joseph Hammond was son-in law of Simeon Cornish; son of Fanny Hammond who kept the Crown & Woolpack, in St John’s Street, Clerkenwell; brother (& brother-in-law) of Walter Frederick Hammond (see Crown & Castle, at 564 Kingsland Road) *+

1881/Bernard Myer/Licensed Victualler/35/Borough, Surrey/Census
1881/Samuel Webster/Barman/17/Walton On Trent, Derby/Census
1881/William J Lamb/Barman/28/Borough, Surrey/Census
1881/Emma L White/Barmaid/28/Tonbridge, Kent/Census
1881/Sarah Herbert/Domestic Servant/25/Cwmystwth Ns, Wales/Census

1882/Bernard Meyer/../../../Post Office Directory

1884/Bernard Meyer/../../../Post Office Directory

1887/William Thomas Laws/../../../../Post Office Directory **

1891/William Thomas Laws/../../../../Post Office Directory

1892/William Golding Carrington/../../../../Post Office Directory **

1895/William Golding Carrington/../../../../Post Office Directory

1899/Ernest Nash Gideon/../../../../Post Office Directory

1903/Ernest Nash Gideon/../../../../Post Office Directory **

1910/Ernest Nash Gideon/../../../../Post Office Directory

1915/John Archibald Higham/../../../Post Office Directory

1921/Clarke & Wood/../../../Hughes Directory *

In 1921 at 207, Upper Street, Islington, London
N G Wood, Hotel Manager, W Clarke Ltd, aged 47 years 9 months and born in Peckham, London
Elizabeth M Wood, Wife, Hotel Manager, W Clarke Ltd, aged 40 years 5 months and born in Walworth, London
William R Wood, Son, Fitter, G E C Wembley, aged 18 years 6 months and born in Hounslow, Middlesex

1926/Arthur Clarke Ltd/../../../Post Office Directory **

1934/Arthur Clarke Ltd/../../../Kellys Directory

Holloway Press. 14 April 1934 Transfers;
Hope & Anchor, 207 Upper Street, Ernest George Rootsey and Henry George Richard Folley to Ernest George Rootsey and Alfred Ernest Hedges

1938/Arthur Clarke Ltd/../../../Post Office Directory

1944/Arthur Clarke Ltd/../../../Post Office Directory

2017 Greene King, Hope & Anchor, 207 Upper Street London Greater London N1 1RL



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