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While I wish the development well, it is one area of London that I only visit when I have to. I don't think that will change even with the renewal.
John | 06.11.11 - 7:29 a.m. | #
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This is one development that has been long over due. I remember my father going to a meeting to save St Pancras station. The area around Kings Cross was a disgrace. The developers can't make it any worse than it was.
Michael | 06.11.11 - 8:52 a.m. | #
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Wow, finally my own post code!
NiC | Homepage | 06.11.11 - 9:14 a.m. | #
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Well, there's some coincidence. Only this morning I was thinking of another part of London with its own unusual letter-suffix after its post-code, and trying to think what it might have stood for.
(The area in mind was the part of the city around Eastcheap known as EC3M)
RogerW | 06.11.11 - 10:41 a.m. | #
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It's on Open Street Map. Google Maps has still yet to catch up ...
Geofftech | Homepage | 06.11.11 - 11:04 a.m. | #
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Spooky - I was at there on Friday afternoon and musing as to how the area has changed. The odd glimpse you can get of the new Western NR ticket hall shows what an amazing structure that is.
PC | 06.11.11 - 11:20 a.m. | #
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Fascinated by the bit about the Ladykillers and the links provided. It was on the telly last week and I was left wondering exactly where these shots were taken and could Mrs Wilberforce's house have really existed (answer: only as an in-situ set for the film). Really minor point: Battle Bridge Road not Battlebridge Road.
dg writes: Really minor point sorted, ta.
Pedantic of Purley | 06.11.11 - 11:57 a.m. | #
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Oh, and the link should be:
http://constructionatkingscross.com/index.html (with no www.).
Pedantic of Purley | 06.11.11 - 12:12 p.m. | #
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Does the Mighty Morphing Trafalgar Square food van turn up?
Selling King's Burgers and Pancras Butties maybe?
Kirk | 06.11.11 - 1:00 p.m. | #
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The rear of Mrs Wilberforce's house was a set overlooking the main Kings Cross line above the southern mouth of Copenhagen tunnel, at the end of Frederica Street (roughly where Conistone Way is now). However, the front was set at the end of Argyule Street, facing the front of St Pancras. The front and the back therefore faced each other, and were about a mile apart!
Link here
http://www.martinunderwood.f9.co.uk/Ladykillers/images/large/kx_map2.jpg
Timbo | 06.11.11 - 7:24 p.m. | #
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What in arse is "N1C" doing on a street sign? Couldn't it have become N23, since the Olympic Park's become E20?
Darryl | Homepage | 07.11.11 - 1:32 a.m. | #
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I agree with Darryl about N1C on the sign. You see W1 on signs, not W1A etc.
Also, Argent have made a big fanfare about the development being "so big it needs it's own new postcode" but many of the cafes and shops inside St Pancras were given N1C postcodes (try Googling "St Pancras N1C"), and addresses in Camley Street have it too. I suppose forthcoming the development may have influenced the decision to add a new postcode but it's not new.
James | Homepage | 07.11.11 - 8:50 a.m. | #
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Two things to mention in the area: the surreal Camley Street Nature Park just around the corner (you might have already been blogging about it), and those funny white things (visible on your photo) along King's Bouleverd that get illuminated at sunset, they look really cool.
cybergreg | 08.11.11 - 4:15 p.m. | #
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Google has just bought the whole eastern side to build its mega hyper luxury office complex:
http://qz.com/139794/inside-googles-new-1-million-square-foot-london-office-three-years-before-its-ready/
Greg | 02.11.13 - 5:04 p.m. | #
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