St Pancras Midland Grand Hotel Railway Station London 1896 Antique Print

A black & white print, rescued from a disbound book from 1896 about London, with another picture on the reverse side.

Suitable for framing, the average page size including text is approx 12" x 9.25" or 30.4cm x 23.5cm.

Actual picture size is approx 10" x 7" or 25.4cm x 17.7cm

This is an antique print not a modern copy and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print. Please view any scans as they form part of the description.

All prints will be sent bagged and in a tube, large letter size box or board backed envelope for protection in transit.

While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item.

Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)

ST. PANCRAS.—At the time when the Midland Railway was brought into London in 1866, it wrought a mighty revolution in the neighbourhood depicted in this view. For its passenger station alone it swept away a church and seven streets of 3,000 houses. Old St. Pancras churchyard was invaded, and Agar Town almost demolished. The neighbourhood for many months presented an appearance of utter chaos. Here we see the Midland Grand Hotel, which abuts upon the Euston Road, facing Judd Street. It was opened in 1873, and completed in the spring of 1876. It must be owned that, towering as it does into mid-air, it is a most beautiful structure, and stands without a rival for palatial beauty, comfort, and convenience. This immense building was erected from the designs of Sir Gilbert Scott, and is constructed chiefly of red brick with dressings of Bath stone, in the most ornate style of Gothic art. A broad terraced carriage drive, 400ft. in length separates the hotel from the roadway, and leads by various entrances to the building and archways of the station. Altogether this hotel has a frontage of about óooft. It is very lofty. It consfsts of seven storeys, including, attics in the sloping roof. At the south-east corner of the building is a clock tower, 240ft. high. There are bedrooms for upwards of 500 guests ; and the Hotel, with its fittings and furniture, cannot have cost less than half a million sterling. The roof of the station is of glass ; it is iooft. high, 700lt. in length, and its width about 240ft. The span of the roof covers four platforms, eleven lines of rails, and a cab-stand, 25ft. wide. Altogether this magnificent station occupies a site of more than ten acres.