Author Archives: William Perrin

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About William Perrin

Active in Kings Cross London and South Oxfordshire, founder of Talk About Local, helping people find a voice online and a trustee of The Indigo Trust , Good Things Foundation and ThreeSixtyGiving as well as Connect8.

Maintenance to Kings Cross Environment website – Thursday 27 October

We've had practically zero downtime during the five years this site has been in operation.  We are doing some major maintenance to give us another good five years – a 50,000 mile service if you will.  We move http://www.kingscrossenvironment.com tomorrow … Continue reading

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The Small Pox Hospital Kings Cross 1800

I picked this up print (cut out of an 1880 paper) on Amazon. 'Year printed c1880. Antique wood engraved print. This print was published in c1880 but please note that it depicts an earlier scene dated 1800 and the printmaker … Continue reading

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Ghost Bike ceremony for Min Joo Lee – Wednesday 1830, York Way Pentonville Road junction

Word reaches me that there will be a ghost bike ceremony to mark the spot where Min Joo Lee died on Wednesday at 1830.  Location – junction of York Way and Pentonville Road.  I'll be there.

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Kings Cross road safety in pictures – get the basics right

We used thousands of words to describe the problems at Kings Cross in the deadly junction complex at the bottom of York Way and the top of Grays Inn Road/Pentonville Road.  Here's a couple of pictures that tell a story … Continue reading

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Kings Cross road safety in pictures – get the basics right

We used thousands of words to describe the problems at Kings Cross in the deadly junction complex at the bottom of York Way and the top of Grays Inn Road/Pentonville Road.  Here's a couple of pictures that tell a story … Continue reading

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Road Safety – political reaction update – Lib Dem questions to Mayor

I wrote on Saturday about the bits of political reaction I had picked up so far on the Kings Cross road safety issue, including work from Islington Labour and the Greens.  The Lib Dems have got in touch with some … Continue reading

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Road safety – Political reaction

There’s been a strong cross party reaction to the tragic death of a young cyclist on the dangerous roads of Kings Cross.  We try not to get into divisive party politics here on this site (our readers tell us they … Continue reading

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‘Bad Gyrations’ – tell us your story to help sort out deadly Kings Cross streets

The roads that make up TfL's Kings Cross gyratory system are a disgrace.  The vast high speed roundabout of one way roads is proven to be deadly.  Plainly unfit for a decade or more,  condemnded in TfL's own report three … Continue reading

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