My stroll round King’s Cross on Saturday eighth April 1989 continues on this put up. The earlier half was Winged Lions, A Faculty, Thameslink, Wine, Buses…
140-142 King’s Cross Street on the nook with Lorenzo Road had a definite fashion to it, with the 2 oval home windows and a few attention-grabbing brickwork. British Historical past On-line states “This five-storey workplace block is essentially of 1991 however incorporates the entrance and facet elevations of a tenement constructing of 1888” and the view from the place I made this image continues to be a lot because it was earlier than the rebuilding.
The 2 terracotta panels dealing with Lorenze Road are nonetheless there and collectively give the date of AD 1888. The BHO article suggests the architect was in all probability W. Youlle who was the architect for the same constructing on Pentonville Street. The bottom ground was occupied by retailers – bricked up and fly-posted in my image – with rooms and a rest room on every of the higher flooring.
Virtually legible in my image is a line of textual content above what had been a shopfront on Lorenzo Road which seems to learn ‘B R E E D O M E T E R S’ although some letters are unclear and half obscured by the no-entry signal. Maybe somebody will be capable of clear up this thriller.
The buildings at 5-11 Leeke St have turn into the places of work for the Paul Hamlyn Basis, established by Paul Hamlyn in 1987; after his dying in 2001 this turned one of many largest unbiased grant-making foundations within the UK. At left is a doorway with the date 1890 and an arm in armour holding the butt of a damaged spear, the Irish Foster household crest for the Foster Parcel Specific Co. The conservation space doc describes it as “a microscope emblem”.
These buildings are nonetheless there however their makes use of have modified and the café is now a property administration firm. The advantageous block at 150-158 was being refurbished in 1989 and is now dwelling to an promoting company.
Once more British Historical past On-line is informative and suggests it was a speculative improvement. Inbuilt 1902–3 with what it describes as a ” mildly formidable” facade, it says that 154 and 156 had items hoists and winches, although there isn’t any signal of them in my image.
Once more the BHO article linked above tells us that this was constructed as an workplace, workshops and stabling in 1899–1900 and was from a few years occupied by J J Connelly who in all probability constructed it. The vast doorway at left was for horses with a ramp main as much as stables on the higher ground. It was apparently nonetheless being refurbished after I made this image as places of work for Group Service Volunteers. The construction continues to be there however seems relatively totally different because the striped window shades have been eliminated and the frontage painted a uniform white.
The taller constructing at proper was the Mary Curzon Hostel for Ladies, in-built reminiscence of his spouse for Lord Curzon in 1912-3 to supply cheap hostel accomodation for working girls. Once more there’s a fuller description within the BHO article. When it was taken over by the LCC in 1955 it was renamed the Susan Lawrence Hostel.
Dodds the Printers had these shopfronts at 193-5 on King’s Cross Street for a few years and their signage proven appeared like one thing from a unique age in 1989. From round 2013 the shopfronts have been put to different makes use of however the printers nonetheless look like in enterprise on the rear of the premises down St Chad’s Place, the alley via the doorway on this image. I’d taken a number of pictures on this alley in 1986, which present the indicators for Dodds on the again of their property.
I turned left onto Pentonville Street, and took an image of those retailers on the north facet of the street, all of which at the moment are a Pizza Restaurant, although not the identical Italian snack bar as in my image.
There may be nonetheless a clock excessive kind of in the identical place although that clean wall has now bought 4 home windows. The oblong clock completely at three minutes previous 4 which had I feel as soon as marketed a businness right here has been changed by a barely cumbersome round one which seems to alter with the hours.
I walked a number of yards west and tuned proper up Caledonian Rd the place the following put up on this stroll will start. The primary put up on this stroll was Kings Cross, St George’s Gardens & Extra.
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