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.

New Compounds: Art and Science Event

Posted on May 22, 2008 by William Perrin

I thought you might be interested in this event, free for Camden and Islington businesses/residents, which we are holding next Tuesday…. New Compounds: Arts and Science in Collaboration will showcase 4 innovative projects combining two disciplines to create ground-breaking new … Continue reading →

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Transeuropean Autos and Islington Council – highway robbery?

Posted on May 21, 2008 by William Perrin

Dick Turpin used to ride Black Bess up Maiden Lane, known to us as York Way – now the public is suffering a modern highway robbery.  Something very weird is happening at the end of Randell’sRoad – the Council seems … Continue reading →

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Choral fund raiser for vulnerable young people – Wed 21 May St Mary’s Church, near Euston Station

Posted on May 16, 2008 by William Perrin

Emma at the Guardian reports a fund raiser for the New Horizons day centre for vulnerable young people next Wednesday.  The Guardian’s Angels choir will perform excerpts from The Armed Man by Karl Jenkins on Wednesday 21 May 2008 7.30pm … Continue reading →

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Network Rail – where is our bridge into Kings Cross?

Posted on May 12, 2008 by William Perrin

This Summer access to Kings Cross via the top end of platform one (from Wharfdale Road) will close for good.  In a hard fought planning process Network Rail promised to do a study into a bridge across the tracks at … Continue reading →

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Free Music at St Pancras Parish Church

Posted on May 8, 2008 by William Perrin

Not quite a free lunch, but free lunchtime music at the Church on Euston Road as part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music. It’s a lovely building and they are trying to raise £3.2m to restore it – … Continue reading →

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Official – Post Office at 100 Cally Road to CLOSE

Posted on May 7, 2008 by William Perrin

I just received notice from Roger Corbett: ‘The result has been announced today 07/05/08 – the closure will take place!…What a whitewash – what a sham of consultation. What a clueless business in disarray. I have asked Postwatch to intervene … Continue reading →

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Rimbaud and Verlaine in Kings Cross at 8 Royal College Street

Posted on May 7, 2008 by William Perrin

We haven’t covered much poetry on this site (to be fair there isn’t much demand) but i was astonished to find that the enfants terrible of French poetry lived round the back of St Pancras in the 1870s at 8 … Continue reading →

Posted in Kings Cross local history | 1 Comment

Bingfield Park and dogs – possible solution?

Posted on April 30, 2008 by William Perrin

Despite Islington’s concrete and tarmac there is often unused green space that goes to waste.  Next to Bingfield Park, along Pembroke Street there is a 50metre long 15 metre wide green strip with about a dozen trees on it.  There … Continue reading →

Posted in Anti Social Behaviour, Crime etc, Bingfield Park, Planning, Licensing and Regulation | 1 Comment