the history of a road

I have read in The Telegraph that Holloway Road is ‘watched over by more than 100 closed circuit television cameras‘.
In the article it is reported that in one 650-yard section of Holloway Road, that runs from Archway to Highbury Corner, there are 29 cameras mounted on shops and lampposts, a church and a he Telegraph states that there are 102 CCTV cameras monitoring crime on the two-mile road, as well as a further seven checking for speeding cars and vehicles straying into bus lanes.“‘ Then I read this article , Holloway Road always had something wrong about it
Detectives investigating the killing of a 16-year-old girl in Islington are appealing for information regarding her whereabouts up to 24 hours before her body was found.

Jessie Wright was last seen alive late in the afternoon on Wednesday.

Officers from the Homicide and Serious Crime Command are asking anyone who can shed light on where she was, and who she might have met, to call the Incident Room at Barking on 020 8345 3985 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

Police were called at 3.30pm on Thursday to reports of the body of a girl found in a yard adjacent to a block of flats in Outram Place, off Caledonian Road, Islington
There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct— in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”I know The Telegraph considers Holloway Road as ‘A crime-ridden high street in North London‘ and the violence is everywhere but each time I feel deeply frightened.

North London is a nice place to live, with a multicultural population and everybody seems to live happily but behind the scenes the reality is very different. It is plagued by gang related crimes, gunpoint shootings on the high streets and never-ending waves of youth patrolling the streets looking for trouble.

Holloway Road is a road in London. It is one of the main shopping streets in North London, and carries the A1 road as it passes throughHolloway, in the London Borough of Islington. The road starts at the Archway, near Archway tube station, then heads south-east, pastUpper Holloway railway station, Whittington Park, past the North London campus of London Metropolitan University near Nag's Head, past Holloway Road tube station, and the main campus of the university, and then becomes Highbury Corner, near Highbury & Islington station.

The origins of the name are disputed; some believe that it derives from "hollow" due to the dip in the road from the cattle that made their way along the route to the cattle markets in London, whilst some believe it derives from "hallow" and refers to the road's historic significance as part of the pilgrimage route to Walsingham.(the shrine was a famous place of pilgrimage and the faithful came from all parts of England and the Continent until the destruction of the priory under King Henry VIII in 1538. To this day the main road of the pilgrims through Newmarket, Brandon and Fakenham is still called the Palmers' (Pilgrims') Way.) No documentary evidence can be found to support either derivation.

The earliest record giving the name of the road as The Holloway dates from 1307. The main stretch of Holloway Road runs through the site of the villages of Tollington and Stroud. The exact time of their founding is not known, but the earliest record of them dates from 1000. The names ceased to be used by the late 17th century, but are still preserved in the local place names "Tollington Park" and "Stroud Green"; since that time, the area has been known as Holloway.

On 22 December 2011 at around 0200 hours a man was stabbed to death at the Landseer Pub in Holloway Road. Jeremiah Watson, 34, was later convicted of the murder.

On Monday 24 December 2012 at around 0040 hours there was a serious incident on Holloway Road at the junction with Mercer Road where an unnamed 22 year old woman was attacked by an unnamed 25 year old man who was later found with swords, a cross bow, hunting knives and a gas mask. An unnamed passing off duty Police Sergeantintervened and managed to chase, disarm and arrest the attacker despite the attacker trying to use his sword on the officer. 
During the attack the woman was slashed several times with a sword by the man and sustained wounds to the legs arms and face. The injuries are reported to have not been life-threatening but the woman was taken by ambulance to hospital for treatment. On 24 December 2012 Timofei was charged with attempted murder.

Holloway Road is one of north London's shopping streets, containing major stores as well as numerous smaller shops. Holloway Road is the site of the main campus of the much-renamed London Metropolitan University (formerly Northern Polytechnic Institute, the Polytechnic—then University—of North London), and includes the Orion Building, designed by Daniel Libeskind, which can be seen along the central stretch of Holloway Road and of the headquarters of the National Union of Students and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Most of the shops are clustered in the Nag's Head area, near the junction with Seven Sisters Road. North of the Seven Sisters Road is the Nambucca pub and music venue, which burned down in 2008 and reopened two years later.

Churches
The northern point of Holloway Road is the complex interchange at Archway, where the A1 leaves the historic route of the Great North Road. The traditional Great North Road heads northwest up Highgate Hill (now the B519) before turning north at North Road, Highgate to cross the current A1 route. The A1 heads north along the relatively recently built Archway 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.

Holloway Road contains two significant London churches. St Mary Magdalene is situated in St Mary Magdalene Gardens near the southern end of the road. Built by William Wickings in 1814, it is one of the best preserved early 19th century churches in London. Charles Barry, Jr.'s St John's Church is a leading example of Gothic architecture and dominates the northern end of the road.

As one of London's primary transport routes during the 19th century railway boom, Holloway Road contains a number of railway stations. Highbury Corner is the site of Highbury & Islington station, one of London's most important transport interchanges. The Victoria line, Great Northern, City Railway (now part of First Capital Connect) and the London Overground North London Line converge at this location. It is also the northern terminus of the London Overground East London Line.

The station building was badly damaged by a V-1 flying bomb in 1944 and never reThe remainder of the building was demolished in 1966 in preparation for the construction of the Victoria line; the only surface building is a small entrance hall, set back from the main road and hidden from view behind a post office.

Upper Holloway railway station was built in 1868 as part of the Tottenham and  Hampstead Junction Railway.
It is served by trains on theGospel Oak to Barking Line, which now forms part of the London Overground network.Holloway Road tube station opened with the Piccadilly line in 1906, next door to an existing Great Northern Railway main line station built in 1852. The main line station closed in 1915.
Although Holloway Road is the nearest station to the Emirates Stadium, trains do not stop here on match days due to concerns about overcrowding.

Archway tube station is not actually situated on Holloway Road, but approximately 10 m off the main road on Junction Road, underneath the architecturally striking Archway Tower. Originally known as "Highgate", it was the original northern terminus of the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway and until 1940 was the northern terminus of the Northern line.

A row of Victorian houses, numbers 726–732, opposite Upper Holloway railway station, stands at the described location of the fictional Brickfield Terrace in Diary of a Nobody.The Diary of a Nobody is an English comic novel written by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith, with illustrations by the latter. It originated as an intermittent serial in Punch magazine in 1888–89 and first appeared in book form, with extended text and added illustrations, in 1892. The Diary records the daily events in the lives of a London clerk, Charles Pooter, his wife Carrie, his son Lupin, and numerous friends and acquaintances over a period of 15 months. The architecture is typical for buildings on this stretch of the road.
Record producer Joe Meek, responsible amongst other things for Telstar by The Tornados, a massive UK and US no. 1 record in 1962, and the highly influential 1959 album I Hear a New World, lived, worked, and committed suicide at 304 Holloway Road, where he is commemorated by a plaque.The Tornados were an English instrumental group of the 1960s that acted as backing group for many of record producer Joe Meek's productions and also for singer Billy Fury. They enjoyed several chart hits in their own right, including the UK and U.S.Number One "Telstar" (named after the satellite and composed and produced by Meek), the first U.S. No.1 single by a British group. 
Sex Pistols singer John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) claims to have been born and raised in side-street Benwell Road, although no documentary evidence survives of this.
 The road also features heavily as the home of a fictionalised Meek in Jake Arnott's The Long Firm trilogy, 
The Long Firm (1999) tells of Harry Starks, a homosexual East End gangster in the 1960s. It includes references to many real life characters of the time including the Kray twins, Tom Driberg. (Driberg made no secret of his homosexuality, which he practised throughout his life despite it being a criminal offence in Britain until 1967; his ability to avoid any consequences for his risky and often brazen behaviour baffled his friends and colleagues. Always in search of bizarre experiences, Driberg befriended at various times the occultist Aleister Crowley and the Kray twins, along with honoured and respected figures in the worlds of literature and politics. He combined this lifestyle with an unvarying devotion toAnglo-Catholicism.. He lived for a time in bradwell lodge After his death, allegations were published about his role over many years as an MI5 informant, a KGB agent, or both. The extent and nature of Driberg's involvement with these agencies remains uncertain. He was charged with indecent assault after two men shared his bed in the 1940s and used his position as a journalist several times to later avoid charges when caught soliciting in public toilets by the police).and Judy Garland. A notable feature is that the story is told from five different points of view. It was adapted as a BBC 2 drama serial starring Derek Jacobi, Phil Daniels and Mark Strong, broadcast in July 2004 and nominated for six BAFTAs, winning two
He Kills Coppers (2001) tells of a criminal on the run, based on real life cop killer Harry Roberts, the tale starting in 1966, the year of England's World Cup triumph, through to the Margaret Thatcher era, the Greenham Common protests of the 1980s and the Poll Tax Riots. It was later adapted for television, appearing on ITV1 in the UK in March and April 2008.All of the novels by Jake Arnott are engaged in the excavation of secret histories in the teasing out and restoration of events that have taken place beneath the surface of society.
Harry Roberts is  an English career criminal who in 1966 instigated the Shepherd's Bush murders, in which three police officers were shot dead. The killings happened after the plain-clothes officers approached the van in which Roberts and two other men were sitting in Braybrook Street, near Wormwood Scrubs prison in London. Roberts opened fire on the officers when he feared they would discover the firearms his gang were planning to use in an armed robbery. He shot dead two of the officers, while one of his accomplices fatally shot the third. Roberets also tortured animals such was his twisted mind.

After Roberts had spent nearly 48 years in jail, in 2014 the Parole Board for England and Wales approved his release, at the age of 78. Having exceeded by far his minimum term of 30 years imprisonment, Roberts was one of the United Kingdom's longest-serving prisoners, remaining in custody from 1966 until his 2014 release.