Nightlife

Where London goes out after dark, district by district: the jazz cellars of Soho, the basements of Dalston, Camden's stages, Brixton's sound systems and the railway arches of Vauxhall.

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King's Cross

A converted cinema, a new hall behind the gasworks, and a district that was the wrong end of town within living memory.

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Scala was built as a cinema in 1920, spent the eighties as a repertory house showing double bills through the night, lost its licence over a Clockwork Orange screening and reopened in 1999 as a club across four floors. It is the only thing here that predates the rebuilding.

Everything else arrived with it. Lafayette is a new room in the development behind the station, Kings Place put two concert halls on the canal at York Way, and Coal Drops Yard turned the coal sheds into shops with bars among them. The district this replaced was notorious - the streets behind the station were where London put what it did not want to look at - and the speed of the change is the thing most people who knew it before remark on.

Where
Goods Way, King's Cross, N1C
Nearest station
London St Pancras International · 3 min walk

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