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2 unusual facts about St Pancras


Bishop of Willesden

The new bishop was given oversight of four rural deaneries: Hampstead, Hornsey, St Pancras and Willesden, previously the responsibility of the Bishop of Islington.

Heinrich Egersdörfer

Heinrich "Heiner" Egersdörfer (1853 Nuremberg, Germany - 29 April 1915 St. Pancras, London), was a German-born artist, illustrator and cartoonist who settled in South Africa.


Angela du Maurier

The eldest of three daughters of the famous actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and actress Muriel Beaumont (maternal niece of William Comyns Beaumont), she was born in St Pancras, London.

Pankrác

The name derives from the local baroque initially very old church of St Pancras, which is filial to a parish church of St. Wenceslas in Nusle.

Zoë Heller

Heller was born in St Pancras, North London, as the youngest of four children of Caroline (née Carter) and Lukas Heller, a successful screenwriter.


see also

Bedpan

For the Bedford to St Pancras railway line known colloquially as the Bedpan service, see Thameslink.

Frank Auerbach

Indeed he almost became an actor, even taking a small role in Peter Ustinov's play House Of Regrets at the Unity Theatre in St Pancras, at the age of 17.

Gilbert Scott

Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811 - 1878), who was principally known for his architectural designs for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and St Pancras Station

Hotels in London

The Midland Grand Hotel at St. Pancras (closed from 1935–2011; now the St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel.)

International railway station

An alternative name for any railway station in the United Kingdom and Ireland that serves International trains (for example, St Pancras railway station which is known as St Pancras International)

Irene Barclay

She had a general surveying practice but is best known for the work her firm did for the St Pancras House Improvements Society (later St Pancras Housing Association) of which she was secretary, started in Somers Town and later working elsewhere in North London.

King's Cross St. Pancras tube station

On 7 July 2005, as part of a co-ordinated bomb attack, an explosion in a Piccadilly line train travelling between King's Cross St Pancras and Russell Square resulted in the deaths of 26 people.

Martin Howy Irving

Irving was born in St Pancras, London, the son of Edward Irving, a major figure of the Catholic Apostolic Church, whom Carlyle called the "freest, brotherliest, bravest human soul mine ever came in contact with", and his wife Isabella Martin.

Midland Line

Midland Main Line between London St Pancras station, the East Midlands and Sheffield.

Municipal Reform Party

Frank Goldsmith, representative for South St. Pancras (1904–1910) and whip of the party.

Reddish North railway station

Although the original mileposts along this section were maintained by the Great Central Railway, the mileages are measured from Rowsley on the Midland Railway line, contrary to the latter's normal practice of measuring from St Pancras.

St Paul's Church, Camden Square

It and its parish are part of the St Pancras team of parishes, which also includes St Pancras Old Church, St Michael's Church, Camden Town, and St Mary's Church, Somers Town.

The Palatine

The Palatine was the name given to an express passenger train, introduced by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1938: the 10.00 from Manchester Central to London St Pancras and the return working, the 16.30 from St Pancras to Manchester Central.

William Woodville

On 17 March 1791 he was elected physician to the smallpox and inoculation hospitals at St. Pancras, in succession to Edward Archer.