ISLINGTON64 - Of Hungerford and Pratt, plus St Mungo's homeless and Holloway's condemnedThere are two schools near the north end of York Way, a Camden primary school called Brecknock, on the west side, and an Islington primary school called Hungerford on the east side. Brecknock, named after the family seat of Lord Camden, opened in 1881. It was typical of Board schools (i.e. those set up by the London School Board under the 1870 Education Act requiring all children to be educated until they were 13) in that it had separate parts for boys, girls and mixed infants. Unusually, though, Brecknock also catered for blind children. Originally, a large building ran parallel to what is now York Way, and overlooked a terrace of houses opposite, behind which was the cattle market. It was replaced between the wars by the present building. During World War Two, the school was used as a fire station. The one-storey Hungerford infant school, on the east side of York Way, set among an area of ...