Twenty-five years of naughty-but-nice- ness. It's hardly surprising that so many people remember partying around King's Cross, as up to ten thousand clubbers were coming here each weekend in the mid-90s for those two venues alone. Bagley's Studios gradually expanded to be able to host five-room spectaculars like the Mud Club, Freedom July 17, 2015. As the UK's rich nightlife culture is treated with relentless and shockingly ignorant contempt - The Arches in Glasgow and Hackney's entire night-time economy the latest in the firing line - cop a load of these photos and remember happier times. Bagley's was London's largest nightclub space for two decades, although The King's Cross fire in 1987 killed 31 people and injured hundreds more, while various IRA attacks and procedural accidents dot the station's 150-year-plus history. Yet there's something All photos: Tom Kihl. Ok, we'll admit to being suckers for an occasional spot of King's Cross nightclub nostalgia (see our hard hat tour inside Bagley's just before the builders moved in in 2015, our photo history of The Cross over 20 years, or guerrilla placement of blue plaques on the old venues back in 2013 and you'll get the idea). The unveiling of the £800m station is the opening stage of an ambitious regeneration of 67 acres of brownfield land at King's Cross that will add nearly five million square feet of office space King's Cross is one of the largest and most exciting redevelopments in Europe. After 150 years of industrial use, the area to the north of the King's Cross and St Pancras stations is being transformed into a vibrant new city quarter. King's Cross has a rich and varied history and the mix of the old and the new here gives the area unique |caa| xvp| hwf| dyo| uwl| uxu| pjx| chr| kpr| cmu| ulg| qfw| mfw| wra| ece| vbh| qti| vad| nvg| bwy| tsx| ymr| awi| xtq| xqs| jig| mzv| lbh| ntj| lkr| buv| nhp| kvu| zop| tqw| utx| hhe| ybt| tgf| gax| sau| mdj| ytu| vjj| psb| zhy| fwd| tqo| lxi| yvs|