 The building of the New Road in 1756 bisected the Angel Inn site and the stable buildings were cut off on the southern side . The inn was on the northern side , on the corner of what is now the junction of Islington High Street and Pentonville Road , while the stables were now on what is St John Street , adjacent to the New Inn , which had been established in 1744 . The Angel benefited from the extra traffic brought by the New Road , and in addition to accommodation provided a number of assembly rooms for public meetings . The author and political activist Thomas Paine is believed to have begun writing Rights of Man at the Angel in 1790 , and there is a monument on Islington High Street commemorating this . 
