Here is a view looking North from Seward Street EC1 up the wonderfully named “Mount Mills Road”.
On the left are the backs of houses which front onto the Goswell Road. See the aerial walkways!
These houses are very old and much altered, somewhat provisionally. On the extreme left, for example, a drainpipe seems to have been routed right across a door. No doubt they said to each other “We’ll sort that out later.” Below the window on the second floor is one of those extensible clothes dryers. The vertical red pipes seem to be flues from a café, but it’s difficult to tell.
Turnpike House is part of the “Kings Square Estate” managed by Islington. It has 20 floors and was built in the 1960s as council housing. There is a current renovation programme, which is why there is scaffolding down the left hand edge of the tower in the drawing.
About 1 hour, drawn and coloured on location.
Jane Sketching 