Hope and Anchor, Islington

The Hope and Anchor stands on Upper Street as a four-storey Victorian building defined by its Corinthian pilasters and arched windows. First opened in eighteen eighty, the pub gained a reputation in the nineteen seventies as a essential testing ground for new music. When other London venues shifted their focus, this basement became a primary hub for the pub rock movement and subsequently a stage for the rise of punk and new wave.