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Camden New Journal - by PAUL KEILTHY
Published: 20 September 2007

Angela Inglis, right, with Camden Mayor Cllr Dawn Somper and retired archivist Malcolm Holmes

It’s all change for the King’s Cross rail land

THE architectural landscape of the King’s Cross railway lands has been swept aside as if by an earthquake, Camden’s foremost historian told guests at the launch of a book of photographs charting the change on Monday.
Speaking at the launch of Railway Lands – Catching St Pancras and King’s Cross, by Angela Inglis, long-serving Camden archivist Malcolm Holmes told a packed Old St Pancras Church gathering that the extension of St Pancras station for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, though welcome, was “like an earthquake – the Victorian landscape around the area has particularly changed”.
Ms Inglis’s work captures some of the last images of the industrial scenery which has dominated the area and is slated for demolition to make way for the King’s Cross development.

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