THE dilapidated industrial buildings around King’s Cross station might seem like blots on the landscape.
But photographers Angela Inglis and Peter Herbert have captured the hidden beauty of this desolate landscape in their latest exhibition.
The gasholders and the old St Pancras Church have dominated the skyline since Victorian times.
There were nine gasholders originally but with the coming of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link and the new terminus at St Pancras they had to be removed.
Ms Inglis has been photographing them for the last 15 years.
She said: “I began photographing the industrial and residential buildings of King’s Cross and St Pancras when I moved to Somers Town in 1986.
“I was particularly interested in the gasholders because of their intricate embellishments and magnificent latticed frames. Whenever I photographed them, people passing would stop to talk about their elegant structure and how it would not be King’s Cross without them.”
Mr Herbert’s photographs depict “nature’s triumph and the passive resistance to change,” focusing on St Pancras Church and a remarkable history dating from AD314.
Their exhibition, Altered spaces, quiet places, is at Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre in Holborn Library, Theobalds Road, until June 9.
It is open from 10am to 7pm, Mondays and Thursdays, 10am to 6pm, Tuesdays and Fridays, and 10am to 1pm and 2pm to 5pm on Saturdays.
Pictured: A photograph from the exhibition taken in All Saint’s Street, King’s Cross.