One can't help thinking of the multifarious craftsmen employed to exercise their stupendous skills in constructing this wonderful building. Nor can one forget the philistines who wanted to pull it down and replace it with something that would now look dull and mundane.
Sheer class! And oozing with a pulchritude of sheer eccentricity. Bring back Lucy Lambton to our screenx today and reverse the trenx of dumbed dosn T.V? BBC4 could show these programmes all again.
No! no! She was an inspired and inspiring advocate of the beautiful, with a delicious sense of fun and wonderful use of language, I saw this when it was originally broadcast and am delighted to find it again.
St Enoch's in Glasgow was its opposite number that didn't survive architectural vandalism. I have traveled on Eurostar from here & it is indeed grandly restored today. If only the Imperial Institute had also survived. So much lost, but so much still to preserve.
I love it! 6:38 The poem has the same meter, and almost the exact same structure, as the Women's Christian Temperance Union's "Stay, mortal, stay! Nor heedless thus, thy sure destruction seal...... ......disease and death, forever nigh, lie waiting at the door, and eager wait to hear the cry, 'Oh, give me one glass more!'." And speaking of almost exactly the same, St. Pancras' tower surely served as the model for NYC's Woolworth Building's Pinnacle (which currently is being offered as a 7-level penthouse, for 110 million).
A wondrous building. I have longed to stay there. But unfortunately at prices between £350 and £450 per night and up it alas will remain a dream. Thank you Lucinda for capturing it in its glorious state of decay.
