Anne Neale, currently the Peer Support & Volunteer Co-ordinator at the Crossroads Women’s Centre, talked to us in May 2018. She spoke about the history of the centre, which began in 1975 as a squat in Drummond Street, near Euston Station. Frequently displaced due to redevelopment and rising rents, the centre later spend 17 happy years in a small shop in Tunbridge Street, next to Argyle Square in King’s Cross. They are now permanently housed in a larger space in Kentish Town.
Anne spoke about the desperate need for a women’s centre in the area, the struggle they went through to maintain their space and the impact that they had at a time when the far right was on the rise in King’s Cross.
For a detailed account of the history of (probably) the oldest women’s centre in London, listen to Anne’s story, and read their history in their own words by following the link below
CROSSROADS WOMEN SQUAT HISTORY Revised Nov18
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