London St Pancras, Hotel, Chambers & Clock Tower - 20th December 2024

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The 9m tall bronze 'brief encounter' statue at the 'meeting place' where our party met.<br>[&copy; Tony Hisgett 2024]	St Pancras Clock Tower<br>[&copy; Stuart Hicks 2024]	Armentières Town Hall was the basis for the design of the Midland Grand Hotel.	St Pancras, with many chimneys, from Argyle Street - 29 Nov 2011.<br>[&copy; Angus McDougall 2011]	4 Wyverns (mythical dragons),<br>[&copy; Stuart Hicks 2024]	Another wyvern.<br>[© Stuart Hicks 2024]	A variety of column heads adjacent to the old taxi exit arch.<br>[© Stuart Hicks 2024]
Another wyvern adjacent to the old taxi exit arch.<br>[© Stuart Hicks 2024]	Another wyvern in the old taxi exit arch.<br>[&copy; Stuart Hicks 2024]	The Midland Railway crest, surmounted by a wyvern, above the hotel lobby entrance, once the inward taxi road.<br>[© Stuart Hicks 2024]	The grand staircase in the hotel.<br>[&copy; Helen Simonsson 2024]	The top floor.<br>[&copy; Bs0u10e01 2024]	The carefully restored original decoration along one of the corridors leading away from the staircase on the ground floor.<br>[© Stuart Hicks 2024]	A close up of the carefully restored original decoration.<br>[© Stuart Hicks 2024]
The corridor electric light fittings replicate the original gas lighting…<br>[© Stuart Hicks 2024]	One of the St Pancras Chambers apartment staircases. The window, just seen at the top, gives an excellent view of the Eurostar platforms.<br>[© Stuart Hicks 2024]	St Pancras International, the Eurostar platforms from that staircase window, difficult to clean on the other side. That foreground statue is 9m tall.<br>[© Stuart Hicks 2024]	A window within St Pancras Chambers overlooking the Eurostar platforms.<br>[© Stuart Hicks 2024]	Marble pillars on the third floor of St Pancras Chambers.<br>[© Stuart Hicks 2024]	Bespoke arch decorations, the inevitable wyverns again, everyone different.<br>[© Stuart Hicks 2024]	The view from the fifth (top) floor landing.<br>[© Stuart Hicks 2024]
The fifth floor corridor with the high level doorways to the attic alcoves (steps and ladders removed). The balustrading is around the former 'skylights' for the fourth floor corridor.<br>[© Stuart Hicks 2024]	The roof of the west side of St Pancras looking north, the main train shed roof is right.<br>[© Stuart Hicks 2024]	The kitchen clock - St Pancras NW clockface through the specially installed kitchen window in the clock tower apartment. Is the window cleaner due?<br>[© Stuart Hicks 2024]	Stairs within the clock tower apartment.<br>[© Stuart Hicks 2024]