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A line-up of Midland Mainline HSTs at St Pancras before its conversion into the Eurostar terminal. 43075 is nearest the camera on 16th November 1999.
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One thing about having ADD is that I have so many projects I want to create, but don't stay focused on them for long. For example, I came up with the idea this morning to make a photo book of my 2008 trip to Europe. But that's daunting because I took over 2000 photos on that trip, and while I know where the photos are, the stories (in the description, like this) are just as important (meaning I would need to copy-paste those into the book as well). But more significantly, it's a matter of "Who is going to care about this photo book? Just me and my infant daughter, when she's grown up. That's it." And these pics are already on Flickr, so it's kind of like "Is it really necessary to make a book?" Ultimately I think the answer is yes, because Flickr won't be around forever, but the printed word has stood the test of time. If my parents had made photo books or albums of their travels before I was born, I would find it interesting to look through them.
Anyway, here is the story that goes along with this picture:
I took the Circle Line subway from Bayswater to Edgware Road, where I transferred to the Hammersmith & City Line and took that to King's Cross St Pancras station. I went outside and walked 3/4 of the way around St Pancras station to take pictures of it, then I went back in and went through security, which I wasn't expecting since it's a train. But I guess since it's an international train, it's a bit different. I hadn't been on an international train since 2008, and that was within the Schengen Area.
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London - St Pancras. Designed by William Henry Barlow and opened in 1868, with the hotel, designed by George Gilbert Scott opening 5 years later. Grade 1 listed. Refurbished and extended by Foster & Partners, reopening as St Pancras International in 2007.
London Borough of Camden, London, UK - St Pancras International Rail Terminal, Euston Road
September 2023
St Pancras Church is reputed to be one of the oldest Christian places of worship, dating back to AD 314, although these claims are disputed by historians.
RD17921x1. They don't build 'em like that anymore!
This is the splendid Grade 1 listed Midland Grand Hotel, now known as the St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel, on Euston Road in London. It fronts St. Pancras, now St. Pancras International, railway station and was designed by George Gilbert Scott and opened in 1873.
It was turned into offices for railway staff by the London, Midland & Scottish Railway in 1935 but the LMS's successor, British Railways, wanted to demolish it in the 1960s. Fortunately, the Victorian Society campaigned to prevent this wanton destruction and both the station and the hotel gained grade 1 listed status in 1967.
Use as railway offices continued until the 1980s, but it was re-opened as a hotel again in 2011. However, it now has modern facilities as would be expected in the 21st Century.
Monday, 3rd September, 2018. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
This walkway is completly white to the human eye but at a shutter speed of >1/200 or so it becomes a corridore of flashing colours. Wow!
St Pancras Church is the parish church of Kingston near Lewes in East Sussex, England. The church building was built in the 13th century and is protected as a Grade II* listed building
Kingston by Lewes – St Pancras
London - St Pancras. Designed by William Henry Barlow and opened in 1868, with the hotel, designed by George Gilbert Scott opening 5 years later. Grade 1 listed. Refurbished and extended by Foster & Partners, reopening as St Pancras International in 2007.
London Borough of Camden, London, UK - St Pancras International Rail Terminal, Euston Road
August 2024
From Derby into London St Pancras … the station has a wealth of Victorian, as well as contemporary, features.
Here's the side entrance with my usual subtle HDR treatment :D
London - St Pancras. Designed by William Henry Barlow and opened in 1868, with the hotel, designed by George Gilbert Scott opening 5 years later. Came close to being demolished in the 1960s. Grade 1 listed. Refurbished and extended by Foster & Partners, reopening as St Pancras International in 2007.
London Borough of Camden, London, UK - St Pancras International Rail Terminal, Euston Road
October 2022
St Pancras as it should be; the old clock and a Peak under Barlow's magnificent arched roof. 45144 ROYAL SIGNALS has only nine days left in service as it quietly awaits it's next turn on 12th December 1987.
Olympus OM10 f/8 30th/sec Ektachrome 200
Stairs lead to the St Pancras Station with the hotel of the same name beyond.
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Finally got to see inside after walking past it so many times.
Seen as part of Open House 2019, with two fellow GWUKers.
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St Pancras Church is a Greek Revival church in Bloomsbury/St Pancras, London, built in 1819–22 to the designs of William and Henry William Inwood. It was historically often referred to as St Pancras New Church, in order to distinguish it from St Pancras Old Church, which stands some way to the north.
The church is on the northern boundary of Bloomsbury, on the south side of Euston Road, at the corner of Upper Woburn Place, in the borough of Camden. When it was built its west front faced into the south-east corner of Euston Square, which had been laid out on either side of what was then simply known as the "New Road".[2] It was intended as a new principal church for the parish of St Pancras, which once stretched almost from Oxford Street to Highgate. The original parish church was small ancient building to the north of New Road. This had become neglected following a shift in population to the north, and by the early 19th century services were only held there once a month, worship at other times taking place in a chapel in Kentish Town.[3] With the northwards expansion of London into the area, the population in southern part of the parish grew once more, and a new church was felt necessary. Following the opening of the New Church, the Old Church became a chapel of ease, although it was later given its own separate parish. During the 19th century many further churches were built to serve the burgeoning population of the original parish of St Pancras, and by 1890 it had been divided into 33 ecclesiastical parishes.
The New Church was built primarily to serve the newly built up areas close to Euston Road, especially parts of the well-to-do district of Bloomsbury. The building of St Pancras church was agreed in 1816. After a competition involving thirty or so tenders, designs by the local architect William Inwood, in collaboration with his son Henry William Inwood, were accepted.[4] The builder was Isaac Seabrook.[5] The first stone was laid by the Duke of York at a ceremony on 1 July 1819. It was carved with a Greek inscription, of which the English translation was "May the light of the blessed Gospel thus ever illuminate the dark temples of the Heathen".[6]
The church was consecrated by the Bishop of London on 7 May 1822, and the sermon was preached by the vicar of St Pancras, James Moore. The total cost of the building, including land and furnishings, was £76,679, making it the most expensive church to be built in London since the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral.[5] It was designed to seat 2,500 people.
The church is in a Greek revival style, using the Ionic order. It is built from brick, faced with Portland stone, except for the portico and the tower above the roof, which are entirely of stone. All the external decoration, including the capitals of the columns is of terracotta.[4]
The Inwoods drew on two ancient Greek monuments, the Erechtheum and the Tower of the Winds, both in Athens, for their inspiration. The doorways are closely modelled on those of the Erechtheum, as is the entablature, and much of the other ornamentation.[4] Henry William Inwood was in Athens at the time that the plans for St Pancras were accepted,[5] and brought plaster casts of details of the Erechtheum, and some excavated fragments, back to England.
The west end follows the basic arrangement of portico, vestibules and tower established by James Gibbs at St Martin-in-the-Fields.[7] The octagonal domed ceiling of the vestibule is in imitation of the Tower of the Winds, and the tower above uses details from the same structure. At the east end is an apse, flanked by the church's most original features: two tribunes designed in imitation of the Erechtheum, with entablatures supported by caryatids. Unlike those on the Erechtheum, each caryatid holds a symbolic extinguished torch or an empty jug, appropriate for their positions above the entrances to the burial vault, There is a stone sarcophagus behind the figures in each tribune, and the cornices are studded with lion's heads.[4] The caryatids are made of terracotta, constructed in sections around cast-iron columns, and were modelled by John Charles Felix Rossi, who provided all the terracotta on the building. The upper levels of the tribunes were designed as vestries.[5]
Access to the church is through three doorways ranged under the portico. There are no side doors.[4] Inside, the church has a flat ceiling with an uninterrupted span of 60 feet (18 m), and galleries supported on cast-iron columns. The interior of the apse is in the form of one half of a circular temple, with six columns, painted to imitate marble, raised on a plinth.[5]
The crypt, which extends the whole length of the church, was designed to contain 2,000 coffins,[4] but fewer than five hundred interments had taken place by 1854, when the practice was ended in all London churches. It served as an air-raid shelter in both world wars and is now used as an art gallery.[8]
The church was closed for two years from 1951 for structural renovation made necessary by dry rot and war damage. The North Chapel was added in 1970 and the interior was restored in 1981. The steps of the church were one of several sites used for floral tributes after the 7 July 2005 London bombings. The building in Grade I listed.[1]