Category Archives: Community stuff

Support St Andrews School

Posted on June 25, 2015 by Sophie Talbot

Summer fete Saturday 4th July from midday at St Andrews on Matilda Street behind Barnard Park.

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The neighbours that desperately need our help

Posted on June 23, 2015 by Sophie Talbot

Just a mile away from King’s Cross is the long established community of Islington Park Street, 18 mixed-need residents, living in four victorian properties knocked into one large home, who provide mutual support in a caring communal environment. The community is … Continue reading →

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CallySouth want Caledonian Road two way traffic system removed

Posted on June 13, 2015 by Sophie Talbot

Local residents group CallySouth organised a public meeting attended by 50 people at the Driver pub on Monday June 8. The meeting’s aim was to discuss ways to return traffic levels on Wharfdale Road to those that existed before the new … Continue reading →

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‘Una piccola festa’ as remarkable KC Continental team retire after 50 years

Posted on May 1, 2015 by William Perrin

There will be a little celebration from 1230 on Keystone Crescent on Saturday.  Rather wonderfully Camden are going to name a street hopefully in the railway lands area ‘Giordani Gardens’.  There’s a great write up of Leo and the store on … Continue reading →

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Caledonian Ward Partnership meeting Wednesday 11 February 7 pm All Saints Chruch

Posted on February 3, 2015 by William Perrin

If you have issues you want to raise about living or working in the area around the Cally Road then go along to the Caledonian Ward Partnership meeting Wednesday 11 February 7 pm All Saints Church on the corner of … Continue reading →

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Wonderful, rather moving map of Islington’s dead from WWI – ‘the streets they left behind’ #WW1

Posted on November 11, 2014 by William Perrin

Islington Council has produced a touching digital memorial to the boroughs first world war dead in a map of the houses to which 9,400 people did not return.  Have a look – it’s rather poignant to see the name and … Continue reading →

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Kings Cross broadcasts through time – courtesy of the #BBCgenome

Posted on October 16, 2014 by William Perrin

The wonderful archive team at the BBC have put almost the entire contents of the Radio Times from 1923-2009 online in a project known as the BBC genome.  It’s a glorious resource you could get lost in for hours.  A … Continue reading →

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Unbelievable: New Private Community Block closes off key safe cycling route

Posted on July 12, 2014 by Daniel Z. Zylbersztajn-Lewandowski

The new built estate, Bloomsbury Gardens, has this week closed off, what has become over the last few years, a key safe passage cycling route of Kings Cross. The access way to the estate and for deliveries of Westminster Kingsway … Continue reading →

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