I’ve walked through St Pancras so many times and somehow never really thought about what had to disappear for it to exist. The Thomas Hardy connection with the disturbed burial ground is such a strange detail too. I’m building my own little channel around overlooked British places and the stories hiding underneath them, so this is exactly the sort of history I love. You made a station everyone knows feel completely different.

Absolutely fascinating account, much appreciated! 👍🏻

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Great video, excellent research and presentation. Thank you very much! 👍👏

My Great-Great Grandmother was raised round there at a Marley Place

Born in st pancras.  ❤

Gillian Tindall (in her justly celebrated book The Fields Beneath) gives a fascinating account of Agar Town and the wider St Pancras area.

Great work only i had to reduce the playback speed quite a bit. Just  slow  down.😊

Critics of current infrastructure projects please note: this is one of many reasons why it was much easier to build railways in the 19th century.
Note also that the cost then also doubled from the original estimate.

The building is amazing, travel through it a lot, but I am disturbed by the suffering the Midland Railway caused and that of landowners. Its disgusted what they did to 30000 plus people and it should be marked. There should be recognition of the streets that vanished, the homes and the churches.

3.28 is that an old photograph of Edinburgh’s Waverley railway station?

I keep thinking of the ossuaries churches used to have for bones removed from older graves to make way for newly dead. A recent you tube video said this was originally done so the community would have a place to continue to pray the past members from purgatory. But theological changes at the Reformation denied that efficacy.  Nowadays the churchyards are being used as quiet parks; the same for the vast tracts of cemeteries. I think a return to the ossuary as a dignified way of respecting the dead without using large amounts of land is reasonable.

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How were Euston , King's Cross and the Metropolitan Railway all compete for the same passengers? When Euston served Birmingham and King's Cross served Peterborough on the same latitude and both served different cities further North and the Metropolitan was just for the London area and suburbs!