By Colin Bailey
Description/Technique: Etching on copper plate using mainly hard ground Edition of 100 St Pancras station clock tower rises above the courtyard of Midhope House on the Hillview estate in Kings Cross in the 1980s. These 1890’s tenement blocks were “decanted” in the late 1970’s by Camden Council pending demolition. They were rapidly squatted by the survivors of the Tolmers Square and Huntley Street squats who fought a drawn out and often bitter battle with Camden council to save the buildings. Grudgingly granted “short-life” status in the 1980s they went on to taken over by a Housing Association the following decade and thoroughly restored. The Hillview estate is still home to many of these original squatters who have raised families in the flats originally condemned by Camden council as unfit for families!
Dimensions: 12 x 16
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Comments for End of the Line
this is so clear, nice and dark, familiar, even narative without any human figure being in the frame. It's a great composition with great focal point. I really enjoy this one alot!
Priscilla de Lima-Ledes
Priscilla de Lima-Ledes
Hello Colin - even before I read your excellent commentary about this print, I recognized it as being somewhere up around Kings Cross. I used to live in London although I moved up to Scotland a year ago. I actually once lived in 'short life' housing. It was quite a nice house although cold in the winter!!
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