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The Railway Tavern, closed and demolished.

Duke of York public house, it was a Watney Come Reid in the 1980s, closed, but reopened as the Fellow.

The Victoria Public house. Closed and A McDonalds Burger place at the time of writing.

The Midland Grand Hotel - George Gilbert Scott won the competition in 1865 for the design of a 150 bed hotel for the Midland Railway Company, to be constructed next to its London terminus, St Pancras, which was still under construction at the time. At 300 rooms, Scott's design was much bigger and more expensive than the original specifications. Despite this, the company liked his plans and construction began. Scott's design was for a hotel with five floors below roof level but in the event it was built with four (which remains the case today) to save on construction costs – although the Midland Railway frequently reproduced Scott's original impression, showing the hotel with its non-existent top floor, in its publicity material. The east wing opened on 5 May 1873, with the Midland Railway appointing Herr Etzensberger (formerly of the Victoria Hotel, Venice) as general manager. The hotel was completed in spring 1876. The hotel was expensive, with costly fixtures including a grand staircase, rooms with gold leaf walls and a fireplace in every room. It had many innovative features such as hydraulic lifts, concrete floors, revolving doors and fireproof floor constructions, though none of the rooms had bathrooms, as was the convention of the time. The original hotel closed in 1935. George Gilbert Scott considered this hotel as his most successful project. See Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Pancras_Renaissance_London_Hotel and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gilbert_Scott#Cathedrals

Pic shows this spot where a very new LNER A1 Class No 2547 'Doncaster' at Kings dated 1925. You will see that the letters of the LNER are very small and the loco number is also on the tender. This was changed in 1928 when the loco number was repositioned on the cabside enabling the LNER lettering to be increased in size on the tender. The A1 would have been in the Apple Green livery. She was re-built in 1946 to an A3. She was named 'Doncaster' after the 1873 Epsom Derby winner. The engine was withdrawn from service at Grantham in September 1963 and stored at Doncaster before scrapping in October 1963

Pic shows a brand new Peppercorn A1 Class No 60127, the first of the class to appear in the new BR express passenger blue livery with black and white lining plus the early lion and wheel emblem on the tender…the loco entered traffic on May 13th 1949 and later named Wilson Wordsell (after the North Eastern Railway's CME 1890-1910) in September 1950; 60127 wasn't repainting in BR green until March 1952, so this shot clearly predates all that. It was taken from the platform at King Cross near to the signalbox. Also in the shot is LNER B1 Class No 61251 Oliver Bury...'

Ethiopian Christian Church, Pentonville Road, London 07/05/2014

Caledonian Road, 16/06/2014

Pentonville Road, 16/06/2014

The Scala or King's Cross Cinema, 16/06/2014

The Regents Canal. Tracks from Kings Cross tunnel underneath whereas those from St.Pancras bridge over. The reason why you have to climb steps on the Euston Road to reach the latter.

Saint Pancras Railway Station

Saint Pancras Church Caryatids

Saint Pancras Church

Hogwarts Express departs from platforms 4-5.

Zoom in to see the Regent Cinema, later called the Century. Erected in 1900 as the Euston Theatre of Varieties.

Extra suburban platforms, including the platform that served trains coming up from Moorgate on the'Hotel Curve'tunnel.

Kings Cross Suburban terminus

Goods Way

German Gymnasium

Culross Buildings - for railway workers

Somers Town Goods Depot

Saint George's Garden

Regency Square Garden

Holy Cross Church

Argyle Square Gardens

Cartwright Gardens

New Kings Cross Station

Kings Cross Railway Station

Saint Pancras Railway Station

Gray`s Inn Road.

York Way

WharfDale Road

Euston Road.

Another BfA yarn bomber lands inside St Pancras.

St Pancras Station

Kings Cross Station