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▲ 13 r/islington

Anyone remember De Marco’s on Chapel market?

Trying to settle a question about De Marco’s, the old ice cream café on Chapel Market. Does anyone remember roughly when it opened, and what year it finally closed? I keep hearing how good the ice cream was but I can’t pin down any dates.

Also after a photo of the shopfront if anyone has one tucked away. Happy to credit whoever shares it.

Cheers in advance, the local memory on here is always better than anything you can Google. Join our newsletter for news, events and offers https://islingtonlocalguide.co.uk

u/Alert_Law7185 — 1 month ago
▲ 56 r/islington

Angel’s most iconic building used to be a glamorous Lyons Corner House café serving tea, dinners and late-night coffee from 1922 ☕🏛️

Before Angel became one of London’s busiest hotspots, this iconic corner was home to a grand Lyons Corner House café serving Islington locals from 1922 to 1959

This beautiful domed building at Angel wasn’t always offices and banks.

Back in 1922, the historic Angel building became a Lyons Corner House café restaurant — one of London’s famous tea houses where people came for afternoon tea, dinners, meetings and late-night coffee stops.

The building itself is even older, originally linked to the legendary Angel Inn that gave Angel station and the whole area its name.

It closed as a Lyons in 1959 and for decades many Londoners knew it as the Co-operative Bank building. Today it still stands at one of London’s busiest crossroads, surviving demolition plans and becoming a Grade II listed landmark.

Hard to imagine how many millions of people have passed this corner over the last century.

Zeit für Brot has taken over the historic building at Angel with giant German pastries, fresh rye breads, pretzels and some of the best cardamom buns in North London.

If you walk past in the morning you can literally smell the bakery from the station entrance.

One of those spots that somehow feels both very Berlin and very Islington at the same time.

📍Angel, Islington
🕰️ Lyons Corner House: 1922–1959

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u/Alert_Law7185 — 1 month ago
▲ 229 r/islington

Angel Islington 1968

In 1968, Angel, Islington was a very different world — smoky pubs, busy market stalls, old red buses and streets still shaped by post-war London.

Upper Street hadn’t become the polished dining destination it is today. Instead, Angel was raw, crowded, working-class and full of character, with traders calling out along Chapel Market and locals gathering in cafés that had been there for decades.

It was the kind of London where music, politics, fashion and everyday life all collided at once — and you can still feel echoes of it in Angel today if you look closely enough.

1968 Angel feels less like nostalgia… and more like a lost version of London.
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u/Alert_Law7185 — 1 month ago