Archive:Venues/17 Barnsbury Terrace

Our space is kindly provided by our friends at 2020 Archery. It's not intended to be permanent, but it's an affordable place to get started - we pay £400/month in rent.

Entrance

Entry is usually for paying Hackspace members and their guests only. Non-members are only allowed during the public weekly hack evenings, or other pre-arranged events.

Opening

Normal opening hours, not requiring a key-holder, are:

• 17:00 - 21:30 Monday
• 14:00 - 21:30 Tuesday - Thursday
•     CLOSED     Friday
• 12:00 - 18:30 Saturday and Sunday

If a key-holder is not present you must vacate the building at closing time.

After closing time, or on Fridays, entry to the building is by arrangement with a key-holder only, and exit is via the rear entrance in Barnsbury Square.

The key-holders are currently Russ Garrett and Jonty Wareing, you can contact them via the mailing list or IRC.

Location

17 Barnsbury Terrace, London N1 1JH - Google Street View, OpenStreetMap

About half way up the gravelled part of Barnsbury Terrace, through a grey gate labelled "Ardern Hodges Ltd.". The space is located up the stairs immediately to the left after you enter the front door.

Venue Information

• Gents toilet is on the ground floor, through the double doors at the end of the corridor and immediately hard right. Ladies is on the left before the double doors.
• The kitchen on the ground floor is open for hackspace use, but use it responsibly.
• During archery hours, access past the white line on the floor of the main archery range is strictly forbidden.
• See our equipment and components lists for information on using the gear in the space.
• Anything in a transparent white box with a name on it is OFF LIMITS, it's people's personal gear.
• In an emergency, call Jonty on 07793 223 857 or Russ on 07799 027 946.

Getting There

By Bicycle

There is space in the gents toilets to store bicycles securely; it is also possible to take them in to the space itself.

By Bus

• 153 (alight on Hemingford Road [Richmond Avenue/Rippledale Grove (V)], 0.2 miles)
• 17, 91, 259, 274 (alight on Caledonian Road [Northbound: Story Street/Fleeting Road (M); Southbound: Story Street (P)] 0.3 miles)

Full bus map

By Tube

About equal distance from:

• Caledonian Road (Zone 2, Piccadilly line, 0.7 miles)
• Highbury & Islington (Zone 2, Victoria line, 0.7 miles)
• Angel (Zone 1, Northern line, 0.9 miles)
• Kings Cross St. Pancras (Zone 1, Piccadilly, Northern, Metropolitan, Circle, Hammersmith & City, and Victoria lines, 1.0 miles)

By Rail

• Caledonian Road and Barnsbury (North London Line, 0.3 miles) not available until 31 May 2010
• Essex Road (Northern City Line, 0.9 miles)
• London Kings Cross (East Coast Main Line, 1.0 miles)
• London St Pancras International (Midland Main Line, Thameslink, and High Speed 1; 1.2 miles)

By Car

Parking on Barnsbury Terrace is not permitted. Nearby streets are limited to residents-only (zone IS-E) and metered from Monday-Friday 8:30am-6:30pm and 8:30am-1:30pm Saturday. We are located outside the Congestion Zone.

Waste

Please place all waste in the bins provided. The following can be recycled:

• batteries (household and car)
• cans (please rinse)
• cardboard (flattened brown and white cardboard, flattened cardboard boxes)
• CDs and DVDs
• fluorescent tubes and energy saving light bulbs
• glass bottles and jars (clear, green and brown)
• paper
• plastic bags
• plastic drink bottles
• cardboard drinks cartons
• tin foil

These will be taken away periodically. In addition, print cartridges can be taken to recycling centre resulting in a donation to charity - so you may like to keep these separate from other waste.