King's Cross Voices Oral History Project

PASTS UNEARTHED

Camley Street Natural Park, London, 2007

Alan Dein on the Voices:

For Pasts Unearthed, I have selected extracts from the 300 or so recordings in the collection of the King?s Cross Voices oral history project. It?s been a pleasure to unearth these fascinating memories (sometimes only fleeting moments in a lifetime) of this patch of ?the Cross? as told by several generations of King?s Cross people.

The big question for us all as we witness the massive transformation of the King?s Cross area, is just what will this place be like for us to live, to work, or to visit in a decade or so from now? Whatever the future may bring, I hope that our King?s Cross Voices will always offer us a wonderful education about the past lives and times of this intriguing district of London.

King?s Cross Voices is funded primarily by the Heritage Lottery Fund, and is currently managed by the London Borough of Camden. Although the initial three year life of the project is drawing to a close, the plan is to create another phase of King?s Cross Voices.

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GALLERY

Fiona Fouhy

?stories and legends that haunt urban space like superfluous or additional inhabitants?? Michel de Certeau

PASTS UNEARTHED

St Pancras station 2007, cow lying down in field, St Pancras soil, image of ducks on pond at Camley Street Nature Reserve.

Pathway at Camley Street Nature Reserve 2007, 1801 Tomson map of London, Camley Street Nature Reserve archive photo from Regent Canal, c.1980?s (photographer unknown), St Pancras soil.

St Pancras Station 2007, 1860 map of St Pancras, St Pancras soil, Camley Street Nature Reserve in mid 1980?s (photographer unknown).

Culross Buildings, East side door of St Pancras station and CTRL workers, Banner of young Saint Pancras in Old St Pancras Church.

CTRL workers, view of gravestones in Old St Pancras Church yard, 1860?s photograph of construction of St Pancras Station (photographer unknown).

1801 Tomson map of London, St Pancras soil, canal water with reflection of chimneys from Goods Yard, feet of commuters at Kings Cross station.

OUR VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO:

Speakers - Mary Britton, Jack Capper, George Case, Charles Chilton, Tom Clarke, Bob Gilbert, Reg Hopkins, Helen Elster-Jones, Jeana, Cy Kirkman, Irene Lucas, Steve Neylon, Billy Osborne, Vijya Patel, Paul Snushell

Additional interviewers - Susan Jellis, Leslie McCartney, Riza Momin and Giles Rollestone

Sound Designer - Jon Calver

Additional sound effects - BBC & RSPB

Leslie McCartney, former co-ordinator of King?s Cross Voices, the King?s Cross Voices Advisory Group, and the King?s Cross Voices volunteers

Richard Knight and staff at Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre

Martin Banham and staff at Islington Local History Centre

CreateKX, and Susanna Roland, producer of the Arrivals programme

Jane Chaplin, Nigel McFiggins & Giles Fouhy

?and of course, our wonderful hosts at the London Wildlife Trust?s Camley Street Natural Park - Tom Clarke, Project Manager and Enric Cucarella, Project Officer, and their super squad of volunteers.

There has been a total of 181784 visitors.

There are 8 active visitors.