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Powered by a 1600cc Standard 12 engine (a smaller unit from the Standard 10 was also available). Replaced by the first SS Jaguar in 1936 and therefore an ancestor of post-war Jaguars. On display in Victoria Square, Birmingham.

Built in 1851-2 for the Great Northern Railway to the designs of Lewis Cubitt. The arches supporting the roof were originally of laminated timber, but were replaced with wrought-iron plate in 1886-7. List description: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1078328 . I think that a fault had resulted in this half of the station being virtually deserted - the train that I was about to catch usually leaves from one of these platforms, but departed from platform 0, on the east side of the station, to the confusion of people who were expecting to find a different train there.

Detail of the Marchmont Street frontage from SW. Designed by Patrick Hodgkinson, with Sir Leslie Martin, from 1959 onwards, but not built until 1968-72, by which time Hodgkinson was the sole architect. Described by the Buildings of England: London 4 (1998), p.328, as "London's first influential megastructure" combining housing, shops and other facilities in a single structure. List description: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1246230 .

Seen from Leigh Street. Built 1949-55 to designs of Denis Clarke-Hall for the borough of St Pancras; two further blocks were intended. The ground-floor shops have a concave façade contrasting with the convex façade of the flats above. The fronts of the lower balconies have abstract decoration.

Built in 1845 to the designs of Francis Thompson (or possibly Sancton Wood); the arcade was originally open, forming an entrance loggia, and was matched by a similar one on the platform side. The current treatment of the entrance front dates from 1971. English Heritage listing: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1343683 ; RCHM: www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/pp304-313 (item 85); 1950s view showing part of the arcade still open: www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/plate-298 .

The S front seen from the terrace of St Pancras station. Built 1851-2 for the Great Northern Railway to the designs of Lewis Cubitt, who wrote that "The building will depend for its effect on the largeness of some of the features, its fitness for its purpose and its characteristic expression of that purpose" [Steven Parissien , The English Railway Station (2014), pp.11-12]. List description: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1078328 .

Built in 1851-2 for the Great Northern Railway to the designs of Lewis Cubitt. The arches supporting the roof were originally of laminated timber, but were replaced with wrought-iron plate in 1886-7. List description: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1078328 .

The former entrance façade (built 1851-2 to designs of Lewis Cubitt) seen through the vault of the concourse designed by John McAslan, engineered by Arup, and opened in 2012. List description for original building: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1078328 .

Built to designs of Lewis Cubitt, 1854. The curved plan reflects the original alignment of Pancras Road. List description: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1113244 .

The Marchmont Street frontage from the S. Designed by Patrick Hodgkinson, with Sir Leslie Martin, from 1959 onwards, but not built until 1968-72, by which time Hodgkinson was the sole architect. Described by the Buildings of England: London 4 (1998), p.328, as "London's first influential megastructure" combining housing, shops and other facilities in a single structure. List description: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1246230 .

The E end of the building, designed by Charles Holden, and dated 1940. List description: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1379007 .

From SW. 1913-14; designed by Sir John James Burnet for the Royal Institute of Chemistry but now part of London University; recent top-floor extension. I have walked past this building many times without standing back to look at it; I do find that having my camera out, and being alert for buildings worth photographing, makes me look at things with a fresh eye. The combination of classicism with asymmetry seems quite surprising for the date; I had always assumed that the building was inter-war. List description: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1246378 .

Of the early C19 buildings in the foreground, only the public house on the extreme right is listed , although the mews workshops on the left strike me as an interesting survival. On the detached single-bay house, see George Rex's photograph here . The clock tower of Grade I-listed St Pancras Station is in the background, while the 1973-7 extension to Camden Town Hall is largely obscured by a tree.

Built from c.1808 to the designs of Joseph Kay, who was surveyor to the Foundling Hospital estate, with the terrace of houses treated as a palace façade emphasized at the centre and ends. Some of the houses were rebuilt in facsimile following damage in World War II. English Heritage listing: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1113118 .

Until 2011 Cambridge preserved a common arrangement in early stations, with one long through platform handling trains in both directions - the scissors crossover which made this possible can be seen at centre left. The footbridge and a new island platform (just visible on the left) were opened in December 2011. The main station building is the original one from 1845 (designed by Francis Thompson or possibly by Sancton Wood) and originally provided an arcaded loggia over the platform, demolished in 1863 when the nearer section, with the pitched roofs, was built. English Heritage listing: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1343683 . Beyond the station is evidence of the frenzy of flat building which has gripped this part of Cambridge in the last few years, some of it for students. In the left background is the Belvedere from 2002-6; behind the oldest part of the station building are new halls of residence for Anglia Ruskin University; on the right Foster's Flour Mills of 1898 are undergoing conversion to flats (the scaffolding surrounding the building is concealed behind netting with an image of its façade).

The main station building, towards the left with the circular windows in the upper floor, is the original one from 1845 (designed by Francis Thompson or possibly by Sancton Wood) and originally provided an arcaded loggia over the platform, demolished in 1863 when the right-hand section, with the pitched roofs, was built. English Heritage listing: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1343683 .

From N. Built in 1842 as a toll house; the principal ground-floor room was used for meetings of the Conservators of the river Cam who had been appointed under an act of 1702 for making the River Cam "more navigable from Clay-Hithe-Ferry, to the Queen's Mill [Cambridge]": list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1127370 .