Marrin's Bookshop

Item Description

8vo. 7.5 x 9.75 inches. 160 pp. Bound in original red cloth, gilt,in pictorial dust wrapper. A fine copy. Illustrated by 97 black and white text figures, including maps and plans and by half title and title pages photographs. History of the King's Cross area of London, including the Regent's Canal, the making of the passenger stations of King's Cross and St Pancras, the Great Northern and Midland Grand Hotels, the King's Cross Goods yard, and the Great Northern Railway and the London Coal Trade. At the end is a shortened version of The English Heritage Inventory of the KIng's Cross Site.