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7 unusual facts about Kings Cross


Billy Field

After living for many years in a warehouse in Kings Cross, Sydney, Field moved to Gosford NSW where his property houses his current recording studio.

Dave Gleeson

The Screaming Jets moved from their hometown Newcastle to Sydney's notorious Kings Cross district in early 1990, and recorded their debut album All For One in mostly midnight to dawn sessions at a local studio, after playing live shows seven nights a week.

GWR 4900 Class

5972 Olton Hall has during her mainline career being used in the Famous Harry Potter Film series taking the young witches and wizards from Kings Cross in London to Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry.

Lim Yew Hock

It was also revealed that he had an ongoing association with a 19-year-old Kings Cross stripper, Sandra Nelson.

Malvern House College

2009 – The Kings Cross Centre opens in the heart of London’s Kings Cross.

Queen Mother Hospital for Animals

There is also a strategic focus on the development of first opinion small animal services at the Beaumont Animals’ Hospital, serving the Kings Cross, London area.

Ted Noffs

Theodore Delwin "Ted" Noffs (1926–1995) was a Methodist (later Uniting Church) minister, writer and founder of the Ted Noffs Foundation and the Wayside Chapel in Kings Cross, Sydney, in 1964.


Auto Italia South East

Located on York Way in Kings CrossNorth London, Auto Italia is both an artist-run project space and a site for exhibitions, events and collaboration.

Connect Project

Kings Cross station exemplifies the need for this improved efficiency.

Gray's Inn Road

Richard Horwood's map (updated by William Faden in 1813) calls the whole stretch from Holborn to modern Kings Cross "Grays Inn Lane", but by the mid-19th century it is Gray's Inn Road.

International Presbyterian Church

The IPC has 2 Presbyteries, a Korean Presbytery composed of 6 churches in Ealing, Kingston upon Thames, Reading and Kings Cross, Oxford.

The Leveller

Members, who met for collective meetings initially in the Euston and Kings Cross areas of north London, and later in Brixton, included: Roger Andersen, Nick Anning, Julia Bard, Imogen Bloor, Dave Clark, Andy Curry, Brian Deer, Tim Gopsill, Cheryl Hicks, Terry Ilott, Phil Kelly, HO Nazareth, Mike Prest, Jane Root, Rose Shapiro, Russell Southwood, Dave Taylor, Adam Thompson, John Verner, Ian Walker.


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British Rail Class 23

The locomotives were put to work on King's Cross outer suburban duties such as the Cambridge Buffet Express as well as services from Kings Cross to Moorgate sub-surface platforms via the 'widened lines' (more recently, part of Thameslink).

Danilo Jovanovitch

When Danilo was four years old his parents moved to Sydney where they purchased the Silver Grill cafe in Kings Cross, which soon became a favoured meeting and eating place of soprano singer Gladys Moncrieff and others with artistic and theatrical flair.

Freehills

Freehills had a pro bono program which, under the leadership of the late Keith Steele, saw the establishment of the Shopfront Youth Legal Centre in Kings Cross.

LNER Class A4 4496 Dwight D Eisenhower

4 October 1962, Dwight D. Eisenhower hauled a special train from Stratford station in east London to York, after being specially cleaned by Kings Cross 'Top Shed' staff.

Ronnie Reed

Reed grew up with his mother Theresa at 9 Leigh Street in the Kings Cross area of London, and was a choirboy at St. Pancras Church, close to St Pancras Station.