St Pancras Station is a celebration of Victorian architecture and engineering:

two contrasting, exceptional Victorian structures, the trainshed by W H Barlow

& R M Ordish (1863-5) and the magnificent Midland Grand Hotel by Sir

George Gilbert Scott (1868-74). Threatened with demolition in the 1960s,

Scott’s hotel was recognised as a major work of the Gothic Revival, and the

magnificently restored station is now the centrepiece for a spectacular revival

of a long-neglected corner of central London. This lecture shows how the

hotel, the station and their surroundings have been transformed over the past

thirty-five years.

Mike Higginbottom, formerly part-time lecturer in architectural and social history for the

Nottingham University Centre for Continuing Education, and also for the

Universities of Birmingham, Liverpool, Keele and Sheffield and for the WEA

East Midlands and West Mercia Districts. Freelance lecturer to local societies

in South and West Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. Formerly

broadcaster for BBC Radio Sheffield, BBC Radio Nottingham and BBC Radio

Derby.