Was Kings Cross ever called Queens Cross?

The intersection of William Street, Darlinghurst Road and Victoria Street at the locality's southernmost limit was named Queen's Cross to celebrate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee in 1897. Confusion with Queen's Square in King Street in the city prompted its renaming as Kings Cross, after King Edward VII, in 1905.



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Due to the decline in freight transported by railway during the 1980s, Kings Cross became a derelict, underfunded area. This impacted the local community significantly, the majority of which were impoverished and unemployed. It became a site that was rife with unsafe practices, such as drug abuse and prostitution.

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From the 1960s onwards Kings Cross also came to serve as both the city's main tourist accommodation and entertainment mecca, as well as its red-light district.

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What exactly is Kings Cross if it's not just a station? An inner district in north London in the boroughs of Camden and Islington, this used to be a former red light district that has been regenerated since the 1990s with the arrival of the Eurostar at London St Pancras station next door to kings Cross station.

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King's Cross, between 1923 and 1930. Courtesy of Transport for London at the London Transport Museum. King's Cross is the more senior of the two stations. Built by the Great Northern Railway, it opened in 1852.

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Kings Cross is perfectly safe, and late at night the station will be busy with people returning from nights out in Central London. Just take the usual precautions that you would in any large city anywhere in the world, and make sure you are familiar with the route from the station to your accommodation.

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However, despite the fact that they are two separate railway stations serving very different destinations, they happen to be right next to each other. As such, they are both served by one London Underground station: King's Cross St Pancras.

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The story goes that the final resting place of Boudicca, the warrior queen of the Iceni, is under Platform nine at King's Cross Station. She ended up there following her last battle with the Romans in AD 61. The battle took place at Broad Ford, in the valley between King's Cross and St Pancras.

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More than 150 firefighters and 30 fire engines were called to a blaze at King's Cross station at on the evening of 18 November 1987. The blaze, which is thought to have started around 7:25pm, when a lit match fell through a gap on a wooden escalator and set fire to the grease and litter beneath the steps.

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Planned for a 10 acre site in the area known as King's Cross the new terminus was built on the site of a smallpox and fever hospital and at the junction of four roads; New Road (Euston Road), Maiden Lane (York Way), Pentonville Hill (Pentonville Road), and Gray's Inn Road.

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