File:Image taken from page 883 of 'Old and New London, etc' (11187528384).jpg
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| King’s Cross. From a view taken during its demolition in 1845. | |||||
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William H. Prior |
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King’s Cross. From a view taken during its demolition in 1845. |
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The demolition and removal of King’s Cross, St Pancras, London. Demolition of the monument to King George IV, 1845, King's Cross. built in 1830 on a prominent site at the junction of three important roads, Pentonville Road, New Road (later Euston Road) and Gray’s Inn Road. The monument stood sixty feet high supporting at its summit a poor and cheap statue of the king, which added another eleven feet to the instantly unpopular folly. Its octagonal structure contained a camera obscura above and a police station on the ground floor (the building is still inscribed as such). This latter later became a public house, before its popular demolition in 1845. Its chief fame rests on its name, King’s Cross, which has survived the monument as the geographical name for that part of London. |
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| Date | 1873 (1887 copy) | ||||
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British Library HMNTS 010349.l.1. |
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Image extracted from page 883 of volume 1 of Old and New London, Illustrated, by Walter Thornbury. Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied from Flickr. Note: The colours, contrast and appearance of these illustrations are unlikely to be true to life. They are derived from scanned images that have been enhanced for machine interpretation and have been altered from their originals.
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| current | 13:58, 6 June 2021 | | 1,750 × 1,301 (1.01 MB) | Broichmore | Cropped 9 % horizontally, 19 % vertically using CropTool with precise mode. |
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