Holloway
About Holloway
Holloway is an area of North London in the borough of Islington, 3.3 miles (5.3 km) north of Charing Cross, which follows the line of the Holloway Road (A1). At the centre of Holloway is the Nag's Head commercial area which sits between the more residential Upper Holloway and Lower Holloway neighbourhoods. Holloway has a multicultural population and includes the Emirates Stadium, home of Arsenal F.C. Until 2016, it was the site of Holloway Prison, the largest women's prison in Europe. Before 1965, it was in the historic county of Middlesex.
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Maud Arncliffe Senate was once imprisoned in Holloway for breaking the windows of the offices of the Daily Mail because they hadn't reported a rally that had happened. In fairness, the newspaper paid her fine in the end and she came out.
from 353: No Such Thing As Hans Gruber's Silent Night, 2020-12-24 at 00:13:38 · read transcript
Other times Holloway came up
Of Guinness and then had an affair with Oswald Mosley and then ended up marrying him and then went to prison and she was the only during the war they were interred and she and another woman were allowed their husbands in Holloway prison so she was in Holloway women's prison and then Oswald was allowed to join her because Churchill said that was okay because he was mates with the family Nancy Metford was famous for doing the upper class and lower class writing.
185: No Such Thing As Scottish Snow, 2017-10-06 · listen
Isn't that cool? I don't know who owned it. I looked at that one, like looking up the, when the ticket was from, when those stops existed, and also the advert on the other side. On the other side, there's an advert for Holloway's magic ointment, or Holloway's all-round ointment. I think it's from 1900. Wow, what does this ointment do? That's what I'm getting from this story.
325: No Such Thing As An Earwig Family Zoom Chat, 2020-06-12 · listen
It's from London United Tramways, so I looked that up, and that ran from 1894 to 1933, and it's punched for a journey in the sort of Wimbledon-Kingston area, and it says it costs two pennies, it was 2D, and isn't that cool? I don't know who owned it. I looked at it on, like, looking up the, when the ticket was from, when those stops existed, and also the advert on the other side. On the other side, there's an advert for Holloway's magic ointment or Holloway's All-Rounder ointment. Okay. I think it's from 1900.
No Such Thing As An Earwig Family Zoom Chat, 2020-06-12 · listen
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