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Local meeting for Caledonian Ward – get things done with each other and your councillors, set local priorities
It's always worth going to this sort of meeting – much more interesting than you might expect and you can really get things done. TEAM CALLY WARD PARTNERSHIP MEETING6.30pm, Wednesday 25th May Jean Stokes Community Centre, off Carnoustie Drive Dear … Continue reading
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Kings Cross springwatch – baby robin on the Cally Road
Tony Rees spotted this very cute baby robin in his garden on the Cally Road. Note pigeon for scale.
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Kings Cross snapshot in time
It was a lovely day a couple of weeks ago and i snapped a pic of the front of the station allegedly a year short of completion of glass roof but some years short of the square in front of … Continue reading
Kings Cross in the Domesday Book
Property prices have come on a bit since 1086. Way back then Islington as a whole had a taxable value of 2 geld and comprised 27 households, both quite high for the time apparently. There was also land for about … Continue reading
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Kings Cross Spring Walk Sunday 15th May
The Kings Cross Spring Walk will be taking place on an orbital route around the Kings Cross and St Pancras area on Sunday May 15th. The route for this free walk takes in the site of London’s first monorail, the … Continue reading
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King’s Cross Central Construction Impact Group
The Construction Impact Group met on 7 March. A summary of the meeting is here, on the King’s Cross Development Forum web site. It includes the current timescales for the works on Goods Way and York Way.
Dust supressant trials Kings Cross to Edgeware Road
I lived for a year or two in the heart of the roaring Kings Cross gyratory on the Cally Road. It was an early-Victorian flat with poor insulation and bad secondary glazing. The amount of fine black dust that would … Continue reading
Pop up gallery in former Peter and Tony’s hairdressers on Cally Road
The sadness of losing these two old hairdressers on the Cally Road is mitigated a little by the wonderful use of their entire empty shop as an impromptu gallery for the art of Jim Geddes. Stephan wrote about local residents … Continue reading
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Kings Cross Environment 