Shadowlands: Kings Cross London

King's Cross area (Granary Square and the new Coaldrop Yard development) looked stunning in the bright sunlight on Friday morning after our night in the Travelodge - lots of shadows and reflected light to play with.

Early Morning in London including the new Coal Drops Yard Development

I decided to make the most of my train fare to London on Saturday so I got an early train arriving just as the sun came up in the King's Cross area. The changes there in only a few months are extraordinary but there is still a lot of clearing up to do at the Coal Drops Yard development  if they are to achieve the artists vision by the Opening on October 26th. I walked as far as Warren Street and then took tube to Green Park where the sunlight through the trees etc took my eye and filled the rest of the available time!

London 2. Kings Cross Area

On Friday evening, we walked along to St Pancras Station, first taking shotsof the traffic outside King's Cross and then in the station itself. The first image of the man on the stairs is a Zerene stacked image of four 2 sec. shots - luckily he stayed absolutely still for one exposure. We then walked to Granary Square with its quaint Christmas tree and yellow chairs. Finally one of the Canal that runs alongside the Square

London Walk: Gasholder Development Favourite Images

The end of the afternoon in London on Saturday was overcast with poor light but it really showed off the textures, colours and shapes in this area. 

London Walk: King's Cross to Camden Lock. II Gasholder Development and Park

The Gasholder Development is part of the King’s Cross redevelopment, which is the largest urban redevelopment scheme in Europe. It comprises a conjoined triplet of gasholder guide frames, first constructed in 1867, now being converted to apartments with a starting price of around £900,000. The metal grills slide to give complete privacy and cut heat transmission. They look over the Regent canal with its narrowboats and also Eurostar railway.The adjoining Gasholder Park was opened in 2015. A circular lawn sits inside the guide frame of a Grade II Victorian gasholder, Gasholder No. 8, Constructed in the 1850s, Gasholder No. 8 once formed part of the largest gas works in London, and was a familiar landmark until it was decommissioned in 2000. The fragile 25 metre-high circular guide frame, which has an internal diameter of 40 metres, was painstakingly dismantled from its old location, where Pancras Square is now, in 2011. It was then reerected in 2013 its new home, next to schools and apartments in the Plimsoll Building and the triplet of Gasholders.

At the bottom are two images from the internet showing its reconstruction.