{"id":118,"date":"2009-04-22T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2010-03-16T12:16:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T12:16:39","slug":"the-kings-cross-lighthouse-building-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-kings-cross-lighthouse-building-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kings Cross Lighthouse Building lives!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/oyster-bar-kings-cross-01.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Oysterhouse Lighthouse, Gray's Inn Road, Kings Cross, London, October 2007 \" width=\"425\" height=\"309\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been slowly falling apart for years but the landmark building adjacent to Kings Cross railway station is set for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bdonline.co.uk\/story.asp?sectioncode=426&amp;storycode=3138769&amp;channel=783&amp;c=2&amp;encCode=0000000001956ef9\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a313 million internal reconstruction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/oyster-bar-kings-cross-17.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Oysterhouse Lighthouse, Gray's Inn Road, Kings Cross, London, October 2007 \" width=\"425\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been some debate as to what the 1880s tower was originally for. Some say that it was built to advertise an Oyster House below, while slightly madder people have suggested that it was once a helter-skelter tower.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/oyster-bar-kings-cross-07.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Oysterhouse Lighthouse, Gray's Inn Road, Kings Cross, London, October 2007 \" width=\"425\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whatever it was, it&#8217;s great to see the old building set to get a new lease of life.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/oyster-bar-kings-cross.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Oysterhouse Lighthouse<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been slowly falling apart for years but the landmark building adjacent to Kings Cross railway station is set for a \u00a313 million internal reconstruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,193],"tags":[69,10],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-places","tag-kings-cross","tag-london"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/oyster-bar-kings-cross-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-1U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1106,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/1106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}