Changing Face of London: Kings Cross
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- Опубликовано: 21 янв 2017
- A walk through the new development around Kings Cross in London with a look inside the new RUclips Space.
The verse from Blake’s Jerusalem:
THE FIELDS from Islington to Marybone,
To Primrose Hill and Saint John’s Wood,
Were builded over with pillars of gold;
And there Jerusalem’s pillars stood.
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Also some footage of a frozen Wanstead Flats at the end.
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That was brilliant. You have made us feel comfortable in a vicarious sense changes with the changes in development happening everywhere. I would never have known that it was happening in dear old London. So we’re all in it together! Love your historical references especially Blake
John, watching this vlog brought back memories of when I worked for B.R at Kings Cross in the Signal & Communications Dept from 1974 to 1977, & stolen kisses in a lift with a girl I met who worked in the canteen, & lived in a street very near the gasworks behind the station. I left in 1977 to join the London Fire Brigade & just when I thought I was done with Kings Cross, my first posting from Southwark Training School was C27 Clerkenwell Fire Stn. I remember Fri nights out with the crew of Islington Fire Stn in Upper St. at the Hope & Anchor pub & watching the up & coming punk bands live in 78-79. I grew up in Edmonton North London & Epping Forest was our go to place on our bikes in the summers, especially Mott St & Pole Hill, where you could get a fair lick of speed going down, & where I broke my nose colliding with a tree. I now live in Lincolnshire & am retired & would be saddened to go back & have a look around, as I doubt I would recognise the places now, but I guess that's progress. But an excellent vlog & gonna look forward to watching all your others now Iv subscribed to your channel. Regards.....Rural Geeze.
And I used to work around this area for about 5 years (in the building next to King's Place). The renovated building that houses Central St Martin's is rather fascinating - you can go into atrium of the building (barriers to the teaching areas are towards the back), and iirc you can see the imprints in the floor of how this was used to transfer goods between trains and barges. I saw an old sketch once that showed the basin in front of the building completely open, and barges would come into arches / tunnels underneath the building to be loaded.
The curved canopy on the eastern side of the building (ie. the cartoon museum side) is where the platforms used to be for the first passenger railway services along the Great Northern route, before they took the lines under the canal and constructed Kings Cross.
I lived over there in the 80s/early 90s and it's breaking my heart to see what's going on. Still, very much enjoying your walks and info. 💖🎸🏏
The High Hopes clip reminds me of London the way i remember when i first went there in 1981 it was really dark & Grimy
It's certainly changed since then Gaz
I remember my bedroom window overlooked St Pancras station and in my youth it was a filthy rundown building. Then I remember some time in the sixties scaffolding and tarpaulins went up and they started jetwashing the brickwork. When it all came off it was a revelation nobody I knew had ever seen the real colour of the brickwork. Thank goodness it was saved. I remember everything as it was in the old film clip the coal bays, the rundown flats and the gasometers. I won't criticise the progress the dump had to be regenerated and the jobs in those flashy buildings are much needed these days. Whether I might venture back for a decko one day I don't know all my mates from those days have gone.
Beautiful frosty scene at Wanstead flats. Hope you enjoyed your 'sorbet'. Thanks for another good wee film.
Thanks Jag - ended up with a bag of chips from Chapel Market then a lovely walk down Amwell Street, Grays Inn Road to High Holborn
JAG, READ MY REPLY TO JOHN ROGERS ABOUT HISTORY IN KINGS CROSS AND ST PANCRAS AND ST LUKES CHURCH ST PANCRAS MOVED BRICK AND STONE BY BRICK AND STONE TO WANSTEAD IN CIRCA 1865 AND REBULT AS A CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, PETER, UPPER CLAPTON, N E LONDON.
A gem of film. Insightful as to historical and cultural context.
Thanks Tim
The Comparison between this and the Pavements of Kings Cross vid that you did years ago is telling. Loved both of them. Also love your old vid of your time in Moderna.
Excellent stuff. It's been a few years since I've been to Kings Cross but what a difference.
Thanks - yeah it's completely unrecognisable
I'm from central London, I love the video's, the knowledge and stories.
I'm from Islington, born and bread and we were always told from older family memebers that Boadicea is buried under King's cross station after her last battle with the Romans and I've even passed that story down to my kids, I was surprised you spoke about bits related to it, made my day, I'll show this to my older two who are now at university. keep up the the good work.
Quite a few scenes from the 1955 film the "Ladykillers" were filmed in this area. Mostly shot by the southern entrance of Copenhagen tunnel a little to the north. Video 125s steam on 35mm video has many outtakes from this film at this location, it seems they inadvertently captured the best scenes of the working steam railway and a part of the industrial area nearby that's ever been recorded.
Its so different now, I find it hard to work out what was where in the old goods yard area, nice that Camley Street Natural Park is still tucked away just a stones throw from St Martins.
Yes, great to see Camley Street still there, just about the only thing I recognised
Visit again. The changes are immense.
I like High Hopes, great spot.
awesome video,
especially the tour of the new gods of mind-forged manacles.
Thanks - that's a great line
have to say prefer old London footage some of this is very smart but souless love this music goods to see you back Jon
Thanks Norma - I'm with you on that. Nice to be back out there after a nasty bout of illness
John Rogers hope your feeling better now x
Just watched this again. Those towers, now do seem to be more valuable than gold. Great stuff John.
John. Don't know if you will get this comment this video being 5 years old. I stayed very near Kings Cross as a young traveler in 1976 at some kind of communal B and B. I remember it as a very old and fairly tough area nothing like what you show. A pity in some ways. One dark night walking home from the tube station I observed a fellow getting a bit of a beating outside of a pub and very nearly getting dragged into it.
Really interesting as usual, and the winter wonderland was quite simply stunning!
Many thanks
Great video John. It's always odd going into parts of a city like Lower Manhattan or even a whole city like Washington DC where people mostly work rather than live.
Thanks Renfro - it definitely has that air about it at the moment
Great film John .Modern developments in London don't deserve you.Bits of Kings Cross are better like the way the cannal has been opened up and the demolition of the prefabricated part at the Euston Road end of Kings Cross Station . However, developers always have to go too far and the proliferation of ludicrously expensive apartment blocks will render Kings Cross as uniform and sterile as Canary Wharf, Sheldon Square, Broadgate, Singapore and Gotham City!
You're right John - the canal section is good as it the Euston Road side of the station, but the rest of it sends a chill down my spine
I'm new to the channel and I must say I absolutely love it. Lived in London from 1998 to 2013 and still work there in fact doing the daily commute from Kent. Its a fascinating city, I absolutely love it, but its changed a lot even in the time I lived there,some for the better some not so much for the better. This is an awesome channel and I love what you're doing, thanks for posting these great videos :)
Another great post John many thanks.
Thanks Roy
battlebridge ... excellent upload.
I have commented before when you have visited this area - 5 minutes walk from where I used to live 12 years ago.
The High Hopes footage reminded me a some long-gone flats called Stanley Buildings, which were run by the same housing association as my flat (in Cromer Street).
There were a few wow factor moments, but mostly a sense of the impersonal corporate architecture cowing the pedestrian into submission. Revisiting the place is on my bucket list of things I must do, but am not looking forward to. I.'d like to walk round there with William Blake, and hear what he had to say about it all.
I was thinking of your previous comments when I was there. I think the High Hopes flats may well have been the Stanley Buildings - apparently those scenes were shot in Stanley Passage - there's a brief shot of one of the Stanley Buildings that was retained.
It is indeed intensely impersonal and corporate - I think you'll get a shock when you revisit, thinking of Blake may just ease the pain. Housmans is still there though
I still have some friends on the Hillview Estate. Perhaps they can hold my hand and provide chemical assistance.
PS : What is this thing called Oyster Card ? Do I have to be a crustacean to travel around dear old London Town now ? Whatever happened to good old money ? Fings ain't what ... I'll shut up now.
PS : I was wondering how close to the St. Pancras churchyard and the Working Men's College this redevelopment extends.
In the Story Novel of The Railway Children. The Mother and the three children get a train from Kings Cross Station to Yorkshire, moving to their new home.
Great video again. Just the thing to end the day on. Thanks John!
Thanks Jonny
Good stuff!
Epic video John
Thanks Leo
Magical.
Thank you
Difficult to know whether Blake was speaking euphemistically, ironically or prophetically. The new quarter looks like Mammon had a hand in the reshaping.
You're spot on. It's something to imagine the scene he saw from up on the Penton Mound - plenty describe it in elevated terms but he must have screened out the Kings Cross rubbish mountain
All the would be mythology is covered by new buildings. They need statues and mild cultural designed for the myths to have moderate life.
I found some of this quite depressing. Yes, there has to be a new tomorrow - but must it always come at the cost of erasing the past? I was so glad you ended this film how you did (no spoilers here!).
Great video, shame London is eating itself, ghastly.
Why do the buildings have to be so anti - human? great expanses of glass and steel with dead birds at the base.
That was brilliant. You have made us feel comfortable in a vicarious sense changes with the changes in development happening everywhere. I would never have known that it was happening in dear old London. So we’re all in it together! Love your historical references especially Blake