Like us, our neighbours in and around Wilton Square are in the Arlingtonian Conservation Area. And like Arlington Square, Wilton was once part of the Clothworkers’ Estate, but became separated from the main estate when the New North Road was built in 1812.

It was 2015 when we first reported on the possible destruction of Holborn Studios in Eagle Wharf Road (below).

The annual Angel Canal Festival takes place on Sunday 1 September 11am–5pm.

The newly formed Friends of Union Square Gardens enjoyed their first volunteer gardening day in early March.

Showbiz comes to our local church in December when Richard Curtis and some of the stars of Four Weddings and a Funeral will be filming the 2019 Comic Relief TV appeal at St James’, Prebend Street.

Troubled cop DI Harry Clayton hurtles out of an Arlington Square house towards the camera, pursued by a barefoot female.

A weekly soup kitchen has been set up in response to a need for a warm environment and some good food for the less fortunate members of our community.

A campaign has been launched to defend a unique local asset.

Phase four (of seven) of the Packington Estate Redevelopment is under way.

You don’t usually associate Arlingtonia with heavy metal music, but at least one practitioner of the dark art recently lived among us in Linton Street.

After our snippet on ex-local Douglas Adams in the last Arlingtonian, the local fashionistas rushed to tell us that designer Alexander McQueen CBE (1969–2010) used to live at 9 Coleman Fields.

The entrances from the New North Road to St Paul Street, Rydon Street, Linton Street and Arlington Avenue are to be transformed into “Pocket Parks”.

The Arlington Project provides residential accommodation and care for six adults with learning disabilities. Based in two adjacent houses on Arlington Square, it is at the heart of our community.

Welcome to the first community newsletter from the Arlington Association. We hope to publish these four times a year.