Midland Goods Shed, Kings Cross, London NW1 TQ 30242 83587 PCA
Ltd (Richard Archer) watching brief Feb 2009 King’s Cross
General Partner Limited KXM08
A mid 19th c levelling layer was cut by the construction cuts of
the Goods Shed N, W and S brick walls. Later alterations to the
building were also exposed including rails which formerly passed
through an archway (since blocked) into the Goods Shed, the cobbled
surface of the West Handyside Canopy, evidence for the construction
of the internal timber platform supported by brick sleeper walls,
the concrete foundation plinth for one of the internal c.1872 circular
cast iron columns, and the shallow foundations of the office block
added to the S end of the Goods Shed in c.1872. Various types of
pipes were observed including ceramic drains, cast iron hydraulic
supply and exhaust pipes.
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