Editing Tufnell Park (section)

===Development===
[[File:Tufnell Park - geograph.org.uk - 261505.jpg|thumb|right|Housing]]
[[File:Fortess Road, Tufnell Park - geograph.org.uk - 389480.jpg|thumb|right|Fortess Road]]
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Serious building began in 1845 with a scheme sponsored by Henry Tufnell and designed by [[John Shaw Jr.]], who had laid out the Eton Estate in Chalk Farm. This initial work was largely limited to the area around Carleton Road. In 1865 the scheme was taken up by [[George Truefitt]] who developed most of the local villas and St. George's Church (1865), built for [[Free Church of England|Anglican secessionists]].  The housing stock was of a solid nature, and Tufnell Park kept its good name until the end of the century.  [[Charles Booth (philanthropist)|Charles Booth]] in his survey of ''London Life and Labour'' reported that the older streets (Anson Road and Carleton Road) housed a mixture of retired merchants and music hall artistes who were rich enough to holiday abroad over winter. He believed that second wave of building around Celia, Hugo, Corinne, Huddleston and Archibald Roads threatened to create a metropolis "from which the rich would soon be going". The private girls' school established at the corner of Carleton and Brecknock Roads ceased in 1878 after many of its pupils drowned in the {{SS|Princess Alice|1865|2}} disaster.

Whereas arterial roads and railway lines sliced through [[Kentish Town]] and [[Camden Town|Camden]] in the 19th century, one neat east–west double track skirts the district. [[Junction Road railway station]] was an 1872–1943 direct link with central London, superseded in 1907 by the building of the tube station Tufnell Park. The shabby genteel reputation of Tufnell Park made it a standard comic reference in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. George and Weedon Grossmith locate their aspirational Mr Pooter in Tufnell Park (Upper Holloway) in ''[[Diary of a Nobody]]''. [[Julian and Sandy]], the camp BBC home service comedians, frequently referenced Tufnell Park as did ''[[The Guardian]]'' newspaper's [[Biff (cartoon)|Biff]] cartoon in the 1980s. Between 1999 and 2001, Tufnell Park was the location for Channel 4's comedy drama, ''[[Spaced]]''.