{"id":14968,"date":"2014-07-07T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T09:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=14968"},"modified":"2014-07-08T10:46:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T09:46:49","slug":"big-crowds-soak-up-the-sun-and-watch-the-tennis-in-the-new-granary-square-kings-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/big-crowds-soak-up-the-sun-and-watch-the-tennis-in-the-new-granary-square-kings-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Big crowds soak up the sun and watch the tennis in the new Granary Square, Kings Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There were big crowds in Granary Square in Kings Cross watching the\u00a0Wimbledon mens’ tennis final yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n

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Called ‘Strawberries and Screen,’ the free event took place in the newly formed Granary Square, billed as “London’s newest square and one of the largest of its kind in Europe.” [—<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Built on the land where barges once unloaded their goods, the square has over 1,000 choreographed fountains – each individually lit – and they look their best at night (they run between 8am and 7pm),<\/p>\n

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In the final, Novak Djokovic finally ended his Grand Slam drought by defeating Roger Federer, and warm applause could be heard breaking out as the match progressed.<\/p>\n

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Looking over Granary Square from the temporary adjacent\u00a0viewing platform.<\/p>\n

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Temperatures soared\u00a0into the 70s F (22C).<\/p>\n

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By one of the fountains.<\/p>\n

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People sitting by the Regent’s Canal.<\/p>\n

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View of the Regent’ Canal.<\/p>\n

It’s worth noting that this is not a public space, but part of the slow privatisation of open spaces in new developments, where\u00a0private owners can refuse right of entry to members of the public whenever they choose.<\/p>\n

See:\u00a0Public spaces in Britain’s cities fall into private hands<\/a>\u00a0[Guardian]<\/p>\n

Read more about the\u00a0Granary Square development in Kings Cross here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There were big crowds in Granary Square in Kings Cross watching the\u00a0Wimbledon mens’ tennis final yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,17,193],"tags":[914,69,428,879,915],"class_list":["post-14968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-photos","category-places","tag-granary-square","tag-kings-cross","tag-park","tag-summer","tag-tennis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/kings-cross-tennis-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-3Tq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14968","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=14968"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14996,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14968\/revisions\/14996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}