Corner of Gray's Inn Road and Ampton Street
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Corner of Gray's Inn Road and Ampton Street
Corner of Gray's Inn Road and Ampton Street
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SC_PHL_01_343_73_1622 (Collage 108203)
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London Metropolitan Archives: LCC Photograph Library
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Gray's Inn Road at the junction with Ampton Street, King's Cross, looking north. On the corner is 276 Gray's Inn Road, a three-storey building with an off licence, Gray's Inn Cellars, selling beers, wines, spirits, minerals and tobacco. It has an advert in its Ampton Street window for Courage Light Ale and displays the Sandeman sherry logo of a cloaked and hatted man on the Gray's Inn Road side of the shop. Next door at 278 is Aquarius, a massage salon and sauna. The building at 280 was damaged beyond repair by World War II bombing and the resulting space is boarded over with posters advertising milk, Mars bars, Harp lager and Bisto gravy. More posters are on the Ampton Street side of 276, for Lemon Hart rum, Yellow Pages telephone directory, Silk Cut cigarettes and The Max Bygraves Show at Victoria Palace. The junction with Ampton Street is controlled with pre-1970s SGE traffic lights, which have since been replaced. Beyond in Ampton Street is a terrace of three-storey houses built c1819-23 by Thomas Cubitt and which is Grade II listed, listing number 1246997. The terrace has basements and railings, the latter included in the listing, and lies within the Bloomsbury Conservation Area and is still extant. 276 Gray's Inn Road and adjoining buildings are also still extant as of 2021 and the empty site at 280 Gray's Inn Road rebuilt.
Gray's Inn Road at the junction with Ampton Street, King's Cross, looking north. On the corner is 276 Gray's Inn Road, a three-storey building with an off licence, Gray's Inn Cellars, selling beers, wines, spirits, minerals and tobacco. It has an advert in its Ampton Street window for Courage Light Ale and displays the Sandeman sherry logo of a cloaked and hatted man on the Gray's Inn Road side of the shop. Next door at 278 is Aquarius, a massage salon and sauna. The building at 280 was damaged beyond repair by World War II bombing and the resulting space is boarded over with posters advertising milk, Mars bars, Harp lager and Bisto gravy. More posters are on the Ampton Street side of 276, for Lemon Hart rum, Yellow Pages telephone directory, Silk Cut cigarettes and The Max Bygraves Show at Victoria Palace. The junction with Ampton Street is controlled with pre-1970s SGE traffic lights, which have since been replaced. Beyond in Ampton Street is a terrace of three-storey houses built c1819-23 by Thomas Cubitt and which is Grade II listed, listing number 1246997. The terrace has basements and railings, the latter included in the listing, and lies within the Bloomsbury Conservation Area and is still extant. 276 Gray's Inn Road and adjoining buildings are also still extant as of 2021 and the empty site at 280 Gray's Inn Road rebuilt.
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