Culture club
A celebration of music, culture and heritage on offer at Britain’s favourite station.
1. For 18 months, a giant set of Olympic Rings hung in St Pancras International to mark the London Olympics in 2012, becoming one of the most recognised symbols of the Games in the Capital.
2. In 2016, the illustrator of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s books Sir Quentin Blake treated visitors to a one-off live drawing session at the station.
3. David Batchelor’s Terrace Wires installation from 2014 ‘Chromolocomotion’ created an explosion of colour over the Grand Terrace.
4. ‘Cloud: Meteoros’ by Lucy and Jorge Orta was the first of the Terrace Wires series of art pieces to be suspended from the trainshed roof when it was installed in 2013.
5. Superstar singer- songwriter John Legend surprised station-goers on National Piano Day in 2017 by giving a brilliant off-the-cuff performance.
6. The famous St Pancras International clock was reconstructed by the original company, Dent & Co., and hangs in the apex of the famous Barlow shed once more. The original timepiece, commissioned when the station was first built, was sold by British Rail in the 1970s but unfortunately broken while it was being removed.
7. The Sir John Betjeman statue was designed by Martin Jennings to celebrate the man responsible for saving St Pancras International from the threat of demolition in the 1960s.