London’s Pocket Parks: Rosemary Triangle, N1

This is about as pocket a pocket park as you are likely to find, being a tiny patch of land on the corner of an Islington road junction that's been taken over by a local community.

UK’s first centre dedicated to Anti-Apartheid to be created in London

The former headquarters of the exiled African National Congress in London is to be restored and opened up as a centre dedicated to the history of the Anti-Apartheid campaign.

London’s Pocket Parks: Radnor Street Gardens, EC1

This is a pocket park near Old Street that started off as gardens, became a car park, and is once again gardens.

Tickets Alert: Boat trip through a tunnel under Islington town centre

Regular trips through a long dark canal tunnel under Islington will resume next month and tickets are on sale now.

London’s Pocket Parks: Gibson Square Gardens, N1

This is an Islington public garden that's famous(ish) for the classical building in the centre, which is actually a ventilation shaft for the London Underground.

A chance to climb up an Islington church tower

If you have a good head for heights, there's now a chance to climb up to the top of a church steeple and walk around the narrow space at the top.

Find Richmond Avenues’s Egyptian sphinxes

There's a street in Islington with a most unusual set of decorations for the houses - long rows of Egyptian Sphinxes outside their front doors.

London’s Pocket Parks: Thornhill Gardens, N1

This is a nice pocket park in Islington cared for by an active local community group, but also a link to a grisly unsolved murder.

London’s Pocket Parks: Asteys Row Rock Garden, N1

Just off Islington's busy Essex Road is a long linear rock garden that's the legacy of a company that brought fresh water to the City.

London’s Pocket Parks: Compton Terrace Gardens, N1

This is a pair of gardens that run in front of a row of houses and were originally private spaces for the houses, but are now open to the public to enjoy.

London’s Pocket Parks: Canonbury Square Gardens, N1

These are two pocket parks in North Islington surrounded by a square of Georgian houses that were laid out just under 200 years ago.

London’s Pocket Parks: Owens Field, EC1

This pocket park close to Angel tube station has existed ever since the area around it was turned from fields into houses, but for most of its life, it wasn't a space for the public to use - it was a school playground.

London’s Alleys: Penton Grove, N1

This is a tiny stump of an alley to be found in Islington that used to be much longer than it is today.

Take a boat trip through a tunnel under Islington town centre

Unless you know the area, you might not realise that there's a long deep tunnel running under Islington and that a couple of times each month, the public can take a tour of it.

Campaign seeks to save Angel’s postmodern office block

A heritage group is campaigning against plans to partially demolish the distinctive brick and stone-clad office block that sits above Angel tube station.

Tickets Alert: Take a trip through the Islington tunnel

Under the streets of Islington runs a tunnel - linking two parts of the Regents Canal, and next month tours of the tunnels will take place.

London’s Pocket Parks: Barnsbury Wood, N1

Described as London's smallest nature reserve, this patch of woodland is hidden behind a triangle of Georgian houses in Islington, and only open to the public for 2 hours a week.

The 19th century Brewers Buildings, Clerkenwell

A narrow side street in Clerkenwell lined with small houses is also home to a magnificent example of 19th-century philanthropic housing.

London’s Pocket Parks: King Square Gardens, EC1

This is a large municipal park surrounded by tower blocks that was once a middle-class Georgian housing development and later gained fame for some marching hammers.

London’s Pocket Parks: Graham Street Park, N1

This is today a modest park with a playground that conveniently faces onto a canal dock, but was once mainly industrial.

Heat from London Underground tunnels to warm homes and schools

Waste heat from the London Underground is now being used to provide heating and hot water to more than 1,350 homes, a school and two leisure centres in Islington.

London’s Alleys: Turk’s Head Yard, EC1

This rather shabby looking car park of an alley is a lingering remnant of a time when the area was filled with old warehouses and factories.

Exhibition about Islington’s lost Music Halls

There's a rather fun exhibition on at the moment about the pre-television era of mass entertainment, the music halls and the people who they turned into later television stars.

Tickets Alert: Climb up the Caledonian Clock Tower

After a lengthy restoration, the Cally Clock Tower opens to the public next month, and tickets to climb up to the top are now available.