page_title: Essex Road
section_title: Properties
hierarchical_section_title: Essex Road / Properties
caption_attribution_description: English: Mecca Bingo Hall (former Carlton Cinema), Essex Road, Islington, London
context_page_description: Essex Road is a main road in Islington, London. It is part of the A104 and connects Islington High Street with Balls Pond Road via Essex Road railway station.
context_section_description: Fisher House stood at the junction of Essex Road and Cross Street. It was constructed in the 17th century as a residential mansion. It later became an asylum before being demolished in 1845.
  The Old Queen's Head, a pub, contains a plaster ceiling and chimneypiece constructed in the 16th century.
  The Lower Street Meeting House was founded in 1744 at what is now the junction of Essex Road and Greenman Street. It was the first Dissenter chapel to be constructed in Islington. It subsequently became The Green Man, a pub.
  Samuel Ridley's floorcloth factory was built in 1812 on what was open fields around the north end of Essex Road. It became Probyn's bottling factory in 1893, and was later redeveloped as council offices in the 1970s.
  The South Library is on the corner of Essex Road and Cross Street. It was constructed in 1916 in a Queen Anne style.
  The Carlton Cinema was at Nos. 161-169. It was built in 1930 in an art deco style by George Coles, using an Egyptian style facade. It was subsequently used as a bingo hall, and then a place of worship. The building is Grade II* listed.
caption: Former Carlton Cinema in 2007, as a Mecca Bingo hall
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