{"id":85180,"date":"2018-04-13T22:30:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T15:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-kings-cross-london-a-most-astonishing-transformation\/"},"modified":"2018-04-13T23:06:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T16:06:45","slug":"lets-move-to-kings-cross-london-a-most-astonishing-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-kings-cross-london-a-most-astonishing-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to King\u2019s Cross, London: a most astonishing transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFragments of a less salubrious past hold on for dear life amid the swankWhat\u2019s going for it? Of all the remarkable transformations in supergentrified London, that of King\u2019s Cross is the most astonishing. I can just remember what it was, dim memories of jigging at its warehouse clubs in the 90s. Before my time, there\u2019s always Mona Lisa (the film) and reruns of The Sweeney to recreate the area\u2019s prostitution and darkness, its dripping railway arches and encrusted tenements. Railway stations used to blight areas, their comings and goings attracting the kind of untrustworthy spivs who terrorise the older women in The Ladykillers. Nowadays they\u2019re \u201chubs\u201d, their sleek bars and delis paused in by commuters off to Potters Bar, their luxury apartments paused in by tech millionaires off to Singapore. We all come and go these days. Fragments of a less salubrious past, though, remain, holding on for dear life amid the swank, like Housman\u2019s radical bookshop and the glorious Camley Street nature reserve, offering alternative utopias had history here taken a different path.The case against The thundering traffic and choking pollution of Euston and Pentonville roads. When Google\u2019s HQ is finished, expect the neighbourhood\u2019s transformation to be complete. Eyewateringly expensive, mostly. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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