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|title=St Pancras Station
|author=Simon Bradley
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|pages=224
|publisher=Profile Books Ltd
|date=January 2007
|isbn=978-1861979964
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"The greatest of High Victorian secular buildings", or merely "nauseating"? Whatever your point of view, you can't deny that St Pancras Station provokes extreme reactions. And it's maybe the way it reconciles hatred and awe, art and function, the refined and the commonplace, that has made it such a powerful symbol of Victorian Britain - and ensured its survival.
The book is a passionate piece of advocacy - for St Pancras as an expression of that time, and for its future role. It is part of a series of volumes which will also encompass St Peter's in Rome, the Taj Mahal and the Parthenon. You finish the book more than half-convinced that St Pancras belongs alongside such wonders. That is a tribute to the vigour of the writing and to the enduring relevance of the station itself.
When the book was re-issued in March 2011 it was updated and tells the story of the station's transformation in the twenty-first century and the reopening of the Midland Grand Hotel as the St Pancras Renasissance Hotel. If you're interested in London stations, you might find this interesting on [[Navigating Historical Euston: London's Gateway to the North|Euston]].
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|comment= I still have difficulty coming to terms with how, essentially, extremely positive & successful time the 19th century was for Britain. One probably cnanot understand the country without having a deep awareness of the importance and meaning of that period and how it actually can be something people might be nostalgic for (of course, always imagining themselves at the lower floors and in the higher classes).
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