Tag: “King’s Cross”

Coal Drops Yard

King’s Cross has really gone up in the world. The station itself has been wonderfully re-invented, St Pancras, too, as it has taken over as the terminal for…

A wander in St Pancras Gardens

I had an hour to spare before catching a train from King’s Cross and headed north past St Pancras Station in the direction of the Regent’s Canal I…

Milroys – The Vault through the bookcase

Milroys has been selling whisky in Soho since 1964. I’ve been in London for more than three decades and I’ve bought the odd bottle of whisky for Christmas…

King’s Cross Remembrance Memorial

There was another lovely memorial to the fallen servicemen and women within King’s Cross Station again this year. It’s just inside the ticket barriers of platforms 0 to…

King’s Cross on a wet Wednesday morning

Just as the redundant docklands were transformed into a modern financial area – and more – in the 1980’s, so too King’s Cross has been changed almost beyond…

Tall poppy syndrome

In the run up to Rememberance Sunday, King’s Cross station commemorated the fallen with a giant poppy that sat above the concourse . It was a striking gesture…

Kings Cross being refurbished

Behind the scaffolding in 2010 Kings Cross station was being turned into a “beautiful butterfly”

A bike on platform 6, Kings Cross

Not many people around at 6.30 in the morning.  

Kings Cross at 6.35am on a winter’s morning.

I arrived 30 minutes early for a train so had time to look at photos from a Dennis O’Regan exhibition of rock photos on the concourse and take…

Home sweet home

The rejuvenation of King’s Cross station is another one of the recent successful restorations of London’s public spaces. I see the roof when I leave London to go…