After almost six years with Edmeston, Scott assisted Henry Roberts and occasionally his friend Sampson Kempthorne. These balconies are now gone, as is the 'Turkish bath'. A grand double staircase ran up the three-storey building, culminating in a vaulted ceiling. The motion was defeated by a majority of nine to four. This meant that the train shed would be elevated above street level. For additional information on the areas we cover and the range of services we provide please contact us or call us on 01843 290141 | 07778 932359.

There were several other problems to solve; the large gas holders in Battlebridge road forced the tracks over to the west, which then encroached upon the graveyard at St. Pancras old church. The Midland Railway trains were able to run on to the Metropolitan line tracks by way of a branch tunnel under the Western side of the site. George Gilbert Scott, 13th July 1811 - 27th March 1878, was born in Gawcott, a small village near Buckingham. Appleby Brothers provided the original hoisting machinery. (Illustration) Concerned that this steam engine would be noisome, smelly and might even fail and that the provision of a second engine would all but negate the benefits of having their own supply, a standby supply was secured from the New River Company, fitted with a meter, so that, should they need to use it, they would only be charged for the water thus needed. This piston was powered from the London Hydraulic Water Company system. If a member of staff were to be taken ill, they were not allowed to stay in the hotel for more than two days. The Terrace Entrance was the first entrance to open, taking place on May the 5th 1873. The fireplaces on this level were made of marble. Archibald Campbell Tait, Bishop of London, appointed Arthur Blomfield, son of his predecessor and with a rising reputation as an architect, to supervise the execution of the task. A travel pass would be issued so that they might travel to St. Pancras, then when their need was no more; another pass was given to convey them back from whence they came. The columns were tied together using 1,905 cross-girders and then a deck was formed from 9,012 buckle plates, riveted in place. Scott fought the plan and successfully argued his case for completion. On March the 1st 1870 it was reported that the waiting rooms in the station were 'rendered offensive' by smoke coming down the chimney. On most railways these carriages were called ‘Government Class’. It became the patron of film and television crews searching for a lost time of glamour and grandeur. Scott & Moffatt completed over 40 workhouses and many churches over the following 10 years. Because the West wing was still under construction in 1873 and the finished rooms were still to be decorated, a number of temporary public rooms were created at first floor level, only used until the corresponding rooms were ready in the West wing.

Equipped with the most modern steam-driven machines, including a six foot (1.83m) washing machine, capable of handling up to three thousand pieces of linen per day, drying cabinets and steam presses. He also designed a rather less successful structure, Albert Bridge over the Thames. It is possible that this was Andrew Benjamin Donaldson, an artist of merit, as he is known to have worked for Gillows and there was some artistic knowledge needed to complete the entire ceiling scheme. Alwyne was serving in the Royal navy and was suffering from scurvy. The local water supply company was the New River Company and they were able to supply this amount at a charge of three pennies per thousand gallons- £1 per day. When Scott's design for The Midland Grand Hotel was chosen he was one of the most eminent architects at that time and certainly one of the best known publicly, after all the trouble he had with his designs for the Foreign office.

It was the lasting beauty of the hotel that prevented its urged destruction and encouraged the decision for it to become a Grade 1 listed building in 1967. Lucas Brothers (Builders of the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Opera House, Kings College Hospital, Alexandra Palace, Woolwich Arsenal, Etc.,) worked on the Eastern cab road and platforms. Waring Brothers were awarded the contract to build the foundations and brick-arch basements, as well as the goods station and approach walls, and this carried on through to the sections under the hotel.

Fresh towels, bathing oils and other bathroom requisites were kept in attendant's rooms and a chute was provide to drop used linen down to ground level, where they could be transported to probably the most modern hotel laundry in the world. They had to stop at every station and travel at not less than twelve miles per hour. Many staff were also 'floating' between hotels owned by the Midland Railway. The original drawings for the hotel at St. Pancras were completed in a small hotel during a three-week period in September and October 1865, whilst Scott accompanied his wife, Carolyn on a trip to Hayling, near Portsmouth, to nurse 16 year old Alwyne Gilbert, their fourth son. They were overseen by Mr Grier. In 1844, as president of the Board of Trade, William Gladstone introduced the Railway bill. The fireplaces on this floor were made of York stone.

They got underway with the foundations of the hotel, which were nearly finished when the Station opened to passenger traffic on October the first 1868. A glazed cast-iron framed canopy, supported by four cast-iron posts, stood on the terrace outside. Scott removed the entire fourth floor of accommodation from the designs for an estimated saving of £20,000. This was granted, but in finalising their account with Skidmore, the Midland railway board instructed that deductions were to be made for this storage and also for the gas used for lighting their work on site. On this occasion Mr Kyne failed to move out of the way soon enough and was struck on the head by the moving carriage, which fractured his skull. American traveller, Moncure D. Conway wrote in his ‘Travels in South Kensington’ (New York 1882): ‘The halls and corridors have a dado of fine dark-brown tiles, and bright fleur-de-lis paper above.’ In 1899 the hotel purchased two revolving doors from the Van Kannel revolving door company of Philadelphia. The site was chosen because this was the nearest central point the railway could reach in London from a northern approach; an act of parliament was passed when the second station, Euston, was built in 1836, forbidding the railways from passing over Euston road, after the gentlemen of the City of London expressed their concerns at the prospect of the city being overrun by the lower classes travelling in from the Midlands and the fear of another fire of London being caused by the coke boilers of the steam locomotives. Mr Sang's estimates that were accepted are shown as First floor £3750 (first scheme); Second floor £2,450 (first scheme); Third floor £1260 (first scheme); Fourth floor £600 (third scheme) and Fifth floor £460 (third scheme). There were also balconies on this second floor in Midland Road near the junction with Euston road. In keeping with the gothic nature of the Houses of Parliament, Scott designed a building that would reflect a Venetian gothic style and become a spectacle in London, at the high price of around £500 million by today’s standards. The space above these rooms was used for storage and for staff to bed-down in. This work was carried out and the hotel opened for business on Monday the 5th of May 1873. The course of the river takes it under Euston Road down to Holborn and it flows into the River Thames through a grating under Blackfriars Bridge. Employees had a number of benefits available, such as privilege train tickets, the Midland Railway Friendly Society, etc. Fourteen year old Reginald Squires started at the hotel in 1912 as a page boy on 3/6d per week (17.5p). (Minute 997) Their other famous work in London includes Battersea bridge. The furniture for the best guest rooms was made of Walnut and black wood inlaid with gold. Here there is additional stone carved decoration at height in the corridor as if to mark-out the start of the management territory. Finally, in November 1873 Sir George was told of the decision to remove from his control the decoration of the Western wing. The wrought-iron beams of the shed roof were supplied by The Butterly Company of Derby, under the management of Mr (later Sir) G.J.N Alleyne. John Oldrid Scott, the second son of George Gilbert was brought in to assist, mainly with decoration. Mr Etzenberger came in while the building work was still underway and made many changes of his own to the layout of the rooms. On its 150th anniversary and the centenary of the end of World War I, St. Pancras International unveiled on 8th November 2018, a permanent war memorial.

The matter was referred to the board. His principle assistant was Mr Campion, who in turn had an assistant, Mr Grier. Famous guests included Jesse Boot (Boots Chemists), George Pullman, Mr Pilkington; Lord Leverhulme, Derby County F.C; and an intriguing character called Charlie Hannam. There were two general types of staff; those that came from Europe and Scandinavia and they lived in.

The approximate cost of these bricks was one guinea, £1.05p, per thousand. Interestingly, this was the only room to be fitted with early secondary glazing, and only on the Eastern side of the room, the side overlooking the Great Northern Station. Palmerston had another architect: Henry Garling, in mind.

This was the year that the Midland Railway was formed by act of parliament from three existing railway companies: The North Midland, the Midland Counties and the Birmingham and Derby Junction. A Tale of Three Clocks | Built On Beer | Creating an IconDrinking Fountain | Timeline | The Railway: A Woman's World. Ordish went on to design the roof of the Royal Albert Hall and then to copy St. Pancras up in Glasgow for the roof of St. Enoch Station. In 1865, the work on the station began. The West wing was completed up to the height of the rest of the building apart from the section north of the Grand staircase – this was finished at the first-floor level. 17s 6d. These trains had to carry third class passengers for fares not exceeding one penny per mile.

The St. Pancras Hotel was first and foremost a railway hotel. The building was to use 'Moreland's patented fireproof flooring system', a wrought iron, concrete and corrugated iron 'sandwich' designed to withhold the effects of fire. The Facing bricks used in the construction were from Edward Gripper in Nottinghamshire. If the larger track gauge was adopted, the single span allowed the most freedom to move the platforms. Bricks to form the substantial foundations were made on site. Three years later in 1838 Scott became business partners with Moffatt and marital partner of his childhood sweetheart, Caroline Oldrid, also his first cousin. Again the rooms could be made into suites by using the interconnecting doors.


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