My posts about my stroll round King’s Cross led by the Higher London Industrial Archeology Society on Saturday eighth April 1989 continues with this publish. The earlier publish was Coal Drops and Canal Kings Cross 1989
A few the others on this GLIAS stroll are on the precise fringe of this image, which provides a superb impression of the state of the constructing on the time with scattered garbage within the foreground and a big pile of it within the distance. You could find extra concerning the website in Peter Darley’s publish on the Gasholder weblog, from which a lot of the knowledge right here comes.
The Western Coal Drops have been transformed to turn into part of the Western Items Shed in 1897–99 when the timber viaduct which had been on their west facet main over the canal to Samuel Plimsoll’s coal shoots in Cambridge Street in 1886 was additionally rebuilt. (I believe ‘shoot’ was merely another spelling of ‘chute’.) Darley says that this iron on brick Plimsoll Viaduct was later dismantled and re-erected on their east facet when the Western Items Shed was constructed. I believe this was on the north finish of the Items Shed at left and the Coal Drop roof at proper.
Though this was taken over a barbed wire fence, the following photos (one beneath) have been made out of the opposite facet of this. I believe no less than this row of buildings from the unique 1850s buildings though partly rebuilt. I don’t suppose these have survived within the redevelopment although I could possibly be flawed.
One other image from additional down the yard within the picture above.
We returned to the northern finish of the Jap Coal Drops the place I believe this reveals the brickwork that after supported the 2 traces of rails. Within the distance you possibly can simply see the tops of the Kings Cross gasholders.
This reveals a floor stage view of the ‘Berlin Financial institution’ viaduct seen in a picture on my earlier publish at left and in addition on the precise the viaduct for the Jap Coal Drops. The realm was nonetheless in use for storage and as you possibly can see a number of automobiles have been parked round in and between the arches.
One other view at floor stage between the 2 coal drops, trying in the direction of the Jap Coal Drops.
For this image I used flash to light up the brick arch which was solely dimly lit. Past this the world of the particular coal drops was open above and illuminated by daylight.
The viaducts merged collectively on the northern finish of the Coal Drops website.
That is now a part of the restored constructing which will be seen from what’s now referred to as Steady Road. It was the final of the roughly 50 photos I took contained in the Kings Cross Items Yard the place I used to be capable of profit from the insights of a number of of the nation’s main industrial archaeologists earlier than the GLIAS stroll ended on the exit from the world on York Approach.
From there I continued to wander unguided across the space to the north of Kings Cross and St Pancras stations, and I’ll proceed with photos from this within the subsequent publish on this sequence.
The primary publish on this stroll was Kings Cross, St George’s Gardens & Extra
Tags: 1864 Viaduct, 1989, Camden, Jap Coal Drops, GLIAS, Items Yard, Higher London Industrial Archeology Society, Kings Cross, Kings X Items Yard, London, London Photographs, peter Marshall, Western Items Shed
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