Mr Charles Pooter is a fictional City clerk and narrator of George and Weedon Grossmith’s comic novel The Diary of a Nobody, published in 1892. He rented a six-bedroom house, The Laurels, in Brickfield Terrace, Holloway.

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The Laurels backed on to a railway and Mr Pooter would catch the tram to work down the Holloway Road.

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It may be fictional but the original drawings do bear a strong resemblance to Pemberton Gardens Upper Holloway - see the photograph of number 1. 

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