Islington - The London Nobody Knows - page 36

Lou's second-hand clothes shop, Islington
Click, click, I'm a monkey-on-a-stick
And anyone with me can play
And my antics he'll enjoy till he finds a newer toy
Then he'll bid me a polite good-day.
Facing Islington Green is that most famous of London music-halls, Collins's, only recently
closed. * Collins's today belongs to the late nineties but the place was started there thirty
years before that by an ex-chimney sweep, Sam Collins, real name Vagg. Only the pub
which is part of the building is open at the present time; it has a wonderful collection of
theatrical photographs and playbills. Collins's bar inside the music-hall had another collec-