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Background

Battlebridge was the site of a major battle between the Romans and the Iceni tribe led by Boudica (also known as Boudicea) The area of what is today Kings Cross was farmland.

1820: Regents Canal

New Road in 1765 (later to become Euston Road) was first developed as terraced housing. With the opening of the Regents Canal in 1820 the area became industrialised. Imperial Gas Light and Coke Company developed a gas works south of the canal.

1835: Kings Cross

A 60-foot high monument topped by an 11-foot (3.4 m) statue of King George IV was built at the junction of Gray’s Inn Road, Pentonville Road and New Road, which later became Euston Road. The unpopular building was demolished in 1845, though the area kept the name of Kings Cross. A structure in the form of a lighthouse was built on top of a building almost on the site about 30 years later.

Railway stations

In 1849, the Great Northern Railway (GNR) began development of their East Coast Main Line and station in the area. In 1852 the line was completed over the canal and Kings Cross station, designed by Lewis Cubitt, opened. The station was designed by William Henry Barlow, as the approaching line to the station crossed the Regent’s Canal at height, the result was that the line at St Pancras railway station was to be 12 to 17 ft (3.7 to 5.2 m) above the ground level.

The railway lands

Both railway companies had land north of the canal, which due to their previous industrial and now commercial use became known as the “railway lands” However, the passenger stations on Euston Road far outweighed in public attention the economically more important goods traffic to the north.

Post 1945: Decline

After World War II the area declined from being a poor but busy industrial district to a partially abandoned post-industrial district. By the 1980s it was notorious for prostitution and drug abuse. This reputation impeded attempts to revive the area utilising the large amount of land available.

  

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