Living in the 21st Century

Stanley Buildings, des-res?

King's Cross, that shit house that you fall into when you get off the train from the dark satanic mill laden "North" is having a bit of a face lift. Actually, it's not. St Pancras Station is having a face lift. The rest of the place is still a hole [more so since Thames Water started digging to the earth's core]. Right beside the new St Pancras station are a couple of blocks of 19th century tenement blocks called Stanley Buildings. I doubt that when they were new they were worth living in. Over a hundred years later they should have been long gone. Had the developers of the area, Argent, had their way, they would have been. Thanks to a bunch of "Old Is Good, Leave it as It Is" campaigners, Stanley Buildings is set to remain. I would hazard a guess that if any of these "campaigners" were living in these ancient hovels, their campaign would be to get them listed as unfit for human habitation and running a raffle to be the one to press the button to blow them up.