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King's Cross development site open this Saturday

The developers of King's Cross Central (ie the area behind the station) have asked if I could post the following: they're holding an open day for the site this Saturday from 11am to 4pm. If you want more of a... Continue reading

Posted Oct 24, 2011 at Kings Cross Local Environment

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Cultural constructions in the Cross

I’ve only lived in King’s Cross for four years, but I’ve already got ‘superlative fatigue’. I can only imagine what it’s been like for residents of ten years or more contending with ‘Europe’s largest regeneration project.’ Autumn heralds a key... Continue reading

Posted Sep 18, 2011 at Kings Cross Local Environment

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Open House King’s Cross

It’s that time of the year again. Jostling for attention with all the other festival-type stuff that seems to crowd September is Open House London on the 17th and 18th. A chance to devote a whole weekend to a voyeuristic... Continue reading

Posted Sep 5, 2011 at Kings Cross Local Environment

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Boris's Cross

Apart from impromptu musical performances in front of the station and the occasional fashion shoot in the St Chad's Place alley, King's Cross is also a setting for the odd music video. Seems you can't go wrong with a matted... Continue reading

Posted Aug 31, 2011 at Kings Cross Local Environment

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The Breakfast Club

One of the later opening bars in King’s Cross, the Big Chill House has kicked off its fifth birthday celebrations with the introduction of breakfast. Last week I went to test drive how a nightclub does breakfast. I should add... Continue reading

Posted Aug 9, 2011 at Kings Cross Local Environment

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Openings, closures and maybes

Here's a quick roundup of some shopfitting and shop-stripping around King's Cross: Acorn House, the restaurant run by the Shoreditch Trust at 200 Gray's Inn Road, has CLOSED down and been combined with its sister restaurant, the Waterhouse in Shoreditch.... Continue reading

Posted Jul 31, 2011 at Kings Cross Local Environment

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Commuter rock

Some light-ish relief on a Monday night, about 7pm. Yet another band utilising the King's Cross station forecourt to draw in the passing crowd. Nice to see a bit of human activity that isn't commuters grimly power-walking and it's good... Continue reading

Posted Jun 13, 2011 at Kings Cross Local Environment

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Fatal stabbing in King's Cross

There are unconfirmed reports of a murder in Argyle Street, just south of St Pancras station. Around 7 uniformed police officers were tonight manning a cordon covering the entire street, in place since the early evening. At least 5 plainclothes... Continue reading

Posted May 12, 2011 at Kings Cross Local Environment

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Lost in a King's Cross labyrinth

The prospect of experiencing an evening of random art happenings in a labyrinth inside an old stable in King’s Cross sounded promising. The website of the King & the Minotaur is a maze itself, giving away not much more than... Continue reading

Posted Apr 26, 2011 at Kings Cross Local Environment

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The dark art of creative patronage

An art commissioning agency, All Visual Arts (AVA) that recently based itself in King’s Cross, has opened its first exhibition. The exhibition space and offices are tucked away down the cul-del-sac, Omega Place, across from Housman’s Bookshop, in an unprepossessing... Continue reading

Posted Apr 9, 2011 at Kings Cross Local Environment

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A tale of two stations

The luxurious five-star hotel at St Pancras opened last week, icing on an already over-the-top cake. All the more reason for King’s Cross station next door — older, dumpier and currently festooned with scaffolding — to seem like an ugly... Continue reading

Posted Mar 26, 2011 at Kings Cross Local Environment

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Get paid for generating electricity or grill your local services

Here's a couple of council events being held locally, which were sent to me and may be of interest to others: one on 'Feed-in Tariffs' for solar power generation and the other on community safety — a multi-agency Q&A session.... Continue reading

Posted Mar 21, 2011 at Kings Cross Local Environment

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Cuts protesters bring Euston Road to a halt

Around 150 people protesting against spending council cuts were occupying intersection of Euston Road, Midland Road and Judd Street, outside Camden Town Hall as of 7.30pm tonight. The often congested A501, or Euston Road, normally moves at a snail's pace... Continue reading

Posted Feb 28, 2011 at Kings Cross Local Environment

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A King's Cross club for 'supermodels'

A couple of middle-aged men are milling about in the light of a doorway of an otherwise dark street off Pentonville Road. The door belongs to an anonymous 1960s 3-storey building, enigmatically carrying a sign with only a stylised art... Continue reading

Posted Jan 28, 2011 at Kings Cross Local Environment

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Congolese protest opposite embassy in Gray's Inn Road

The busy one-way stretch of Gray's Inn Road in King's Cross was awash with fluorescent yellow today at 4.30pm, as a clutch of police officers and two riot vans kept an eye on 50 or so protesters on the footway... Continue reading

Posted Oct 8, 2010 at Kings Cross Local Environment

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King's Cross is your oyster

Usually that means the blue card-shaped thing, but for two weeks in September it's about the mollusc loved and loathed in equal measure. I'm in the first camp — one online pundit says eating them is invigorating, like "battery-licking for... Continue reading

Posted Sep 14, 2010 at Kings Cross Local Environment

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Camden and Islington to share chief executive

An interesting development in the tale of one King's Cross, two councils — now we're set to have one chief executive. Could this signal the beginning of some genuinely co-ordinated working that benefits all of King's Cross equally? Look forward... Continue reading

Posted Sep 8, 2010 at Kings Cross Local Environment

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Tea, cake, beer and craft pop-up shop returns to Caledonian Road

Drink, Shop & Do, a vintage homeware and retro craft shop doubling as a bar, has moved back and reopened as a permanent shop at the serially vacant shop at No.9. The temporary venture appeared popular over three weekends in... Continue reading

Posted Aug 8, 2010 at Kings Cross Local Environment

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Restaurant using London-sourced produce closes

Konstam at the Prince Albert, the restaurant on 'difficult' King's Cross Road that famously undertook to source 85 per cent of its ingredients from the area covered by the Tube, closed its doors this week. The restaurant, with its atmospheric... Continue reading

Posted Aug 6, 2010 at Kings Cross Local Environment

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Camden town hall annexe sell-off still on the cards?

The new Labour-led council is going ahead with plans drawn up by the previous LibDem/Conservative-led council to sell the 1970s town hall annexe building and construct new offices in the King's Cross railway lands, according to a report in Camden... Continue reading

Posted Aug 3, 2010 at Kings Cross Local Environment

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The hire bikes are coming

It's hard to miss the lickably-shiny new bicycle docking stations that have sprung up, in anticipation of the actual bikes, due on 30 July for the Transport for London, ahem, Barclays, cycle hire scheme. Or maybe it is hard to... Continue reading

Posted Jul 12, 2010 at Kings Cross Local Environment

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Major Picasso exhibition in King’s Cross

To have had some actual sun at home this summer is a pleasure. Perfect timing as London’s exhibition and festival season swings into gear. It’s an even greater pleasure to be able to see some of the most warm and... Continue reading

Posted Jun 30, 2010 at Kings Cross Local Environment

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King's Cross street to be turfed for free street party

As part of the London Festival of Architecture (LFA), which kicks off this weekend, Squire and Partners Architects, of Wicklow Street WC1, have confirmed details for the party outside their offices on Thursday 1 July. The architects, who seem to... Continue reading

Posted Jun 17, 2010 at Kings Cross Local Environment

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Conference to look at making food growing projects viable

Local Action on Food and London Food Link (sustainable food networks based in Angel) have organised a national conference which will explore methods and models for community food growing projects to generate income and become economically viable. King's Cross is... Continue reading

Posted Jun 8, 2010 at Kings Cross Local Environment

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The People's Supermarket opens in Bloomsbury

Alright, it's not in King's Cross, but not far off, and worth a special note for uniqueness. The People's Supermarket is a co-operatively owned social enterprise — a 'conventional' supermarket (scaled down a little) selling everyday grocery items and staffed... Continue reading

Posted Jun 1, 2010 at Kings Cross Local Environment

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