Holloway Road

The construction of the interchange left a few buildings isolated in the centre of the roundabout, including the Archway Tavern, which appears on the cover of The Kinks' 1971 album Muswell Hillbillies.

[8] Charles Barry Jr.'s St John's Church is a leading example of Gothic Revival architecture and dominates the northern end of the road.

[13] Although Holloway Road is the nearest station to the Emirates Stadium, trains do not stop here on match days due to concerns about overcrowding.

[15] It is served by trains on the Gospel Oak to Barking line, which now forms part of the London Overground network.

1 record in 1962, and the highly influential 1959 album I Hear a New World, lived and worked at 304 Holloway Road, where, on 3 February 1967, he killed his landlady and them himself with a shotgun.

Sex Pistols singer John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) claims to have been born and raised in side-street Benwell Road,[17] although no documentary evidence survives of this.

The road features heavily as the home of a fictionalised Meek in Jake Arnott's The Long Firm trilogy.

A row of Victorian houses, numbers 726–732, opposite Upper Holloway station, stands at the described location of the fictional Brickfield Terrace in George and Weedon Grossmith's Diary of a Nobody.