Kings Cross Fire

On Wednesday 18 Nov 1987, a flash fire engulfed an old wooden escalator at the Kings Cross London Underground station. Thirty one people died, including a firefighter. Mark Willcox, a designer working in London in those days, left the station only minutes before the fireball erupted in the escalator well. The Kings Cross Fire images have been created in response to his memories of the fire, thoughts of what might have been and to acknowledge, in 2008, its 21st anniversary – a poignant ‘Coming-of-Age’.