Showcoach

Exclusive to our members, our 'Showcoach' programme offers monthly group excursions to exhibitions, concerts and musicals, heritage sites, theatres and museums, plus once a year we organise short residential trips. Recent visits include Chichester Theatre , the Royal Albert Hall and Tate Britain, and our most recent residential trip took all Showcoachers to Northumberland for three nights.

We know how important safe transport and like-minded companionship is for our members, and we make every effort to ensure ease of access for all. Coach pick-up points are available across the borough.

We have arranged another walk with our excellent Blue Badge Guide Sophie Campbell

Date: Tuesday 18th March We’ll be meeting at King’s Cross station approx. 11.00 Cost : £21 There are 20 places available so book early to avoid disappointment

Four major London railway stations line the busy traffic route we now call the Euston and Marylebone Roads, and indeed they were built just for that purpose on the site of an old droving route, itself designed to keep noisy livestock (and later smoking, hooting trains) out of central London. As the car took over and rail left its glory days behind, St Pancras was almost destroyed and King’s Cross became a red light district and much-loved clubland. The huge project to redevelop the old rail lands was connected to, and affected by, the Channel Tunnel and the London Olympic Games. Many a battle was held over grubby heritage buildings facing the wrecking ball. Most survived, were triumphantly cleaned and repurposed, and while there is a huge retail and restaurant component to the site, its master stroke is placing the University of the Arts (most famously Central St Martin’s) at its centre. We will do a circuit that takes in St Pancras and the British Library and circles up past arguably the oldest church site in London, St Pancras Old Church on our way to the King’s Cross development, ending at King’s Cross railway station itself.