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The German Gymnasium is a building located at 1 Kings Boulevard (formerly 26 Pancras Road), between the Kings Cross and St Pancras railway stations in the north London Borough of Camden. The building, which is currently used as a German-themed bar and restaurant, is a legacy of London’s once large and thriving German community.
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The Copenhagen Tunnel is a set of three parallel railway tunnels carrying the main line tracks out of London's King's Cross terminus under the rising ground at Barnsbury, about a mile north of the station. Each bore has the capacity for two tracks.
The King's Cross monument. Watercolour by George Shepherd. King's Cross was a short-lived building in London which gave its name to the area still known as Kings Cross. The building was erected in 1830, as the base for a memorial to the recently deceased King George IV. A statue of the late king was added in 1835, but then removed in 1842, and ...
The first Great Northern Railway engine shed at London was built in 1850, three quarters of a mile north-west of where Kings Cross station is located today. It was built on a large area of open land, with the East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway to the north, the main line of the Great Northern Railway to the east and Regent's Canal to the south.
The Scala was originally built as a cinema to the designs of H Courtney Constantine, but construction was interrupted by the First World War and it spent some time being used to manufacture aircraft parts, and as a labour exchange for demobilised troops before opening in 1920 as the King's Cross Cinema. [1]
King's Cross was a run-down area with a notorious reputation, frequented by drug addicts and sex workers; it was also home to artists, musicians, activists, and members of the gay community, as well as nightlife venues like the Bell and Scala. [7] [8] [9] Chris Lowe lived in King's Cross at the time. [10]
King's College was founded in 1946 by Congregation of Holy Cross priests and brothers from the University of Notre Dame. [4] The original mission of the college was to educate the sons of local miners and mill workers who lived in the Northeastern Pennsylvania region. [5]