Mick Hartley

A visit yesterday to this strange out-of-the-way location just next to the mainline coming out of St Pancras station. In the 1860s a young Thomas Hardy, then working for a London architect, was in charge of clearing the old graveyard in readiness for the new railway lines. Also – see below – Sir John Soane’s mausoleum, the inspiration for Sir Giles Gilbert Scott’s design for the old red telephone boxes. Plus a blue drinking fountain from 1877, and the Burdett-Coutts memorial.

Read all about it here.

Previously, in summer..

See also, the Beatles “Mad Day Out”.