King's Cross in a Day: British Library, Platform 9¾ & a Cinema on canal

KING'S CROSS
What do you actually find at King's Cross? A lot more than a train station. In one afternoon we wandered the British Library (150+ million items, including Magna Carta and handwritten Beatles lyrics), stood under the glass tower holding King George III's 65,000 books, splashed past the 1,080 dancing fountains of Granary Square, caught the Everyman cinema on the canal, walked by Platform 37 — Google's new "landscraper" HQ named after AlphaGo's famous Move 37 — and finished, of course, at Platform 9¾ and the Harry Potter Shop.

If you're visiting London with kids (or just love libraries, trains, or wizards), King's Cross might be the easiest great day out in the city — everything in this video is within a 10-minute walk.

⏱ Chapters
0:00 Hello from the British Library
0:12 Inside the British Library
0:46 The King's Library Tower
1:01 The Library shop
1:09 King's Cross Station (est. 1852)
1:24 Platform 37 — Google's landscraper
1:35 Wander this way…
1:47 Granary Square fountains & Everyman on the canal
1:55 St Pancras & Europe's largest single-span concourse
2:08 Platform 9¾
2:15 The Harry Potter Shop
2:57 Wrap-up — thanks for watching!

🎵 Music: "Spring Forward" (Biz Baz Studio) & "Come Along" (Dan) — YouTube Audio Library