EAW000623 ENGLAND (1946). Euston, St Pancras and King's Cross Railway Stations, Somers Town, 1946

Highbury Stadium.

Future site of St Aloysius R.C Church

St Mary's church Eversholt street

Site of Ampthill sq estate

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (the first female doctor to be admitted to the BMA) founded the New London Hospital for Women, which moved to Euston Road in 1890. This provided treatment for women by women. It was renamed the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital for Women after her death in 1918.

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

Fortune of War Public House (Watneys) 184 York Way N7.

St Anthony's Flats

Crowndale Road

Werrington Street

St. Pancras Hospital water tower @ TQ 29731 83659 built 1939 (Ref. Lost Hospitals of London)

Barclay Street

KIng's Cross cemetery station

Dennis Street, Kings Cross.

Site of Charlotte Street United Methodist Church (street renamed Carnegie Street 1938) https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/01c1683a-1481-4c96-9579-1afa2553b291 Church destroyed by land mine (air dropped), 1941

"Mission Hall" end of Thornhill Bridge Place: https://maps.nls.uk/view/103313309

The closed "York Road" tube station, it was open from 1906-1932. It's building still stands on the corner of Bingfield Street.

This Building is the former North London Railway "Maiden Lane" station building. it closed in 1917. More here, http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/m/maiden_lane/index.shtml

Euston square tube station

Entrance to Gas Works Tunnel. Solution to the problem caused by the Grand union Canal obstucting the entrance to Kings Cross.

York Way Platform, start of underground section to Farringdon. Trains from Farringdon appeared on the on the other side - alongside the suburban platforms of Kings Cross station.

North London Line crossing East Coast Main line

Belle Isle signal box

Cenotaph coaling tower at Kings Cross 'Top Shed' Locomotive depot.

Midland Railway Somers Town Goods Shed

The Ladykillers

Eversholt Street, 10/03/2015

Euston House, Eversholt Street, 10/03/2015

Fish & Coal Offices on Regents canal

The Granary and Granary Sq

2-6-4 tank loco.

2-6-4 tank loco.

Wynford Road, N1

Euston Street, NW1

Euston Street, NW1

Doric Arch

Metropolitan Cattle Market.

I think these are Beaconsfield Buildings where my paternal grandmother was born in 1884. The buildings were opened in 1887 as "comfortable dwellings for the labouring classes" but it later became a slum area and was known as "The Crumbles". Demolition started in 1967 and the area is now Bingfield Park and adventure playground. For more details, see www.beaconsfieldbuildings.com.

Thornhill Square.

Grand Union Canal.

Caledonian Road.

York Way.

Kings Cross Railway Station

Modern Euston Station Approach

Saint Pancras Church

Euston's famous arch

Saint Pancras Railway Station