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.

Mayor went to bed on seeing heavy snow, did nothing until following morning

Posted on April 3, 2009 by William Perrin

In these troubled times a major city has to be prepared for disasters, natural and man made.  The way the heavy snow was handled in London was poor, despite the sterling efforts of many individuals working in public services.  The … Continue reading →

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Michelle Obama (almost) in Kings Cross

Posted on April 2, 2009 by William Perrin

At the risk of succumbing to Obama-mania I was delighted to see that the First Lady visited the local Elizabeth Garrett Anderson school today, which educates many Kings Cross girls.  Lots of pictures at this link here and all over … Continue reading →

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Grafitti and tipping clean up

Posted on April 2, 2009 by William Perrin

If you report stuff to the Council they do tend to sort it out.  So i have reported about a dozen grafitti tags, illegal posters and some fly tipping in the North Kings Cross area over the last 24 hours … Continue reading →

Posted in Broken Stuff on the Street | 1 Comment

Fire safety an issue at Residence Primrose hostel again

Posted on April 1, 2009 by William Perrin

Hostels are an important part of the social housing market in London.  With a lot of people crammed into a small space, fire safety is important.  So these pictures of an improvised fire escape made out of scaffold poles with … Continue reading →

Posted in Community Health and Welfare | 4 Comments

Southern Camden’s Dad’s Group

Posted on March 28, 2009 by William Perrin

The article about the Dad's Group at Coram Parents' Centre has been temporarily removed, for editorial reasons.  An update will appear here soon.  In the mean time more details about the group can be found here: Weblink     Father's Group … Continue reading →

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Kings Cross traffic – bad gyrations

Posted on March 5, 2009 by William Perrin

The traffic and roads in Kings Cross are dreadful.  For all the millions of pounds of private redevelopment the roads never seem to change.  Between them, Islington, Camden and TfL have neglected the 1980s gyratory causing a safety hazard according … Continue reading →

Posted in Bad Gyrations KX Campaign, Transport | 6 Comments

Preventing a forest of phone masts in Kings Cross

Posted on February 18, 2009 by William Perrin

The Orange mobile phone mast proposed for Wharfdale Road may be one of the first of a forest of masts to come in Kings Cross.  The Orange mast is needed to increase capacity for 3G in Kings Cross station.  The … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Planning, Licensing and Regulation | Leave a comment

Kings Cross TV gets over a dozen new films

Posted on February 4, 2009 by William Perrin

Over at our sister site Kings Cross TV, web volunteer Fran has scoured YouTube to turn up 18 new Kings Cross films.  There is some good stuff from Kings Place, some wonderful mass observation of Kings Cross in the snow … Continue reading →

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