Night-time view of bow-fronted Regency villas, one lived in by Samuel Ridley in the early 19th century, who owned the Palladian factory (seen in the corner) built around 1812 for floor coverings and in 1893 taken over for Probyn's bottling factory (later Islington Planning Department, now flats).

• Keywords
  STREETS, FACTORIES, HOUSES
• Geographical keyword
  ESSEX ROAD
• Persons keyword
  Essex Road Ridley's Floorcloth Manufactory