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Evening Standard
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Amira Hashish

Why I live in Drayton Park: The Witcher’s Anna Shaffer on the foodie neighbourhood she calls home

Anna Shaffer on the ‘dream street’ Highbury Terrace Mews, set just back from Highbury Fields

(Picture: Adrian Lourie)

I live in a one-bedroom flat with my husband, Jimmy, on a Victorian terraced street. It’s quite leafy and suburban despite being parallel to the hustle and bustle of Holloway Road.

I love that our neighbours have all lived here forever and there’s a real sense of old-school community (and old school nosiness).

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