ska invita
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this is a great set!
love the crunchyness of the recording(has got to be 1988 not 1987 though - youtube comments agree)
King's Cross - events, photos, news, Coal Drops Yard and redevelopment
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this is a great set!
love the crunchyness of the recording(has got to be 1988 not 1987 though - youtube comments agree)
Johnny Doe
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Up the road on York Way, EGG nightclub is trying to raise £200k to survive. Developers will be eyeing it for flats no doubt, with the proximity to the shiny new places a major draw
Cloo
Banana for scale
I'm surprised it's still there even before all this bullshit.
jimbarkanoodle
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I remember first time going to EGG the whole area around it was just deserted wasteland. Now there are fucking fancy flats all around it.
Even if it survives this, it wont last much longer.
Even if it survives this, it wont last much longer.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
I know the estate opposite EGG (used to work on it ) most weekends we would get complaints about club goers parking on the estate, pissing or shitting in the gardens or car park & waking people up when they left the club. So it wasn't exactly a wasteland before.
jimbarkanoodle
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I genuinely never noticed any buildings around EGG the first few times i went. I stand correceted.
I would still be minded to take the complaints with a small pinch of salt though. Who leaves a nightclub and suddenly decides that they need to shit there and then, in a bush?
I would still be minded to take the complaints with a small pinch of salt though. Who leaves a nightclub and suddenly decides that they need to shit there and then, in a bush?
ska invita
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joolz is a little annoying but
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
Probably more pissing than sitting tbf , but the caretakers had the right hump about the club
I know that some posh blocks were built opposite , a mixture of social housing and for sale , which has the potential for more complaints when the club reopens, but, there were never any complaints about the club itself being noisy , so maybe it'll be ok.
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hiraethified
It's actually a nice place to visit when it's nearly empty (although it must be disastrous for the traders)
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Christmas lights, festive installations and street market at Coal Drops Yard, Kings Cross, December 2020 -
The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in an incredibly quiet Christmas, with attractions closed and businesses trying to make the best of a really grim festive season. We took a walk around Kings Cross and Coal Drops Yard on Friday night (18th Dec 2020). In a normal year, the area would have...
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DJWrongspeed
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Wonderful gig @ Coal drops tonight as part of the summer Cubbitt Sessions. There’s much to dislike about the Kingsx development but the outside covered arena space amongst bars and shops is great. crucially it’s BYO
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hiraethified
Very quiet there yesterday
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Photo feature: all quiet in Coal Drops Yard, Kings Cross, after the festive season -
With the festive season well and truly over, Coal Drops Yard in Kings Cross was all but deserted yesterday. Here's a selection of photos taken around the area: There was an interesting 'then and now' photo exhibition on display outdoors - above can be seen the Bagley's warehouse which later...
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toblerone3
Grrrrr
Before the pandemic St Pancras and Kings Cross were the 9th and 10th busiest stations in the country. In 2020-2021 they fell back to being only the 13th and 20th busiest respectively. Stratford now has more entries and exits than the two stations combined.
Barking, East Croydon and Highbury and Islington are also now busier stations than either termini on its own.
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Barking, East Croydon and Highbury and Islington are also now busier stations than either termini on its own.
List of busiest railway stations in Great Britain - Wikipedia
stethoscope
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Passing through reasonably regularly between getting back to down to London and up North, Coal Drops yard is I suppose 'pleasant' enough and provides something to look around and do some retail for those stepping off the Eurostar - fine for those that like that sort of thing, it doesn't do much for me. And they're building those new flats/more restaurant space on Kings Boulevard too, which feels like just too much development. They're not attracting the likes of me anyway.
Every time I walk around that bit to kill some time waiting for my train I just yearn for the days of Bagleys! So, I head straight for Camley Street and get away from it by grabbing something to eat and drink at Camley Street and watch the narrow boats in and out of the lock. What they did with the gas holders is certainly impressive - I would like to check from inside one of the flats they've built into them, and survey London from there.
Every time I walk around that bit to kill some time waiting for my train I just yearn for the days of Bagleys! So, I head straight for Camley Street and get away from it by grabbing something to eat and drink at Camley Street and watch the narrow boats in and out of the lock. What they did with the gas holders is certainly impressive - I would like to check from inside one of the flats they've built into them, and survey London from there.
jimbarkanoodle
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Kings Cross is stuffed full of good pubs, my favourite is probably McGlynns. Given the dates you mentioned, you mean the world cup? If so, i would assume every pub with a TV screen (even Spoons) will be showing the football since its on terrestrial.
pinkmonkey
2.4 hour party person
I think the fountains in the square are the nicest thing about the development, on hot days, ordinary Kings X locals from the surrounding estates bring their small kids down there to play in them. I like the seating/steps and the big screen showings, too. I hate a lot of the new developments in London but Coal Drops is alright.
ska invita
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Miller's is the main football pub but busy when a big match on. The Boot could be good , less busy
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
I'd echo McGlynns - sometimes they do show big screening events on huge screens in Granary Square - there's 'terracing' by the canal.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
tim dunn has posted on tweeter a design for a post-1945 rebuild of Kings Cross Station (that ended up not happening)
Puddy_Tat
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Its not just the underground is it though. Water pipes, drains, electric cables, gas pipes.....hells bells
i hope they know where all the underground lines are
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tim dunn has posted on tweeter a design for a post-1945 rebuild of Kings Cross Station (that ended up not happening)
Christ....
Whenever I visit places like Frankfurt's Old Town, and see how fittingly and beautifully they chose to rebuild areas that'd been levelled during WWII, I can't help but think how in the name of fuck did the UK get its post-war architectural vision so spectacularly wrong...
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