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St Pancras Town Hall is an interwar classical building by the architect A.J. Thomas (of whom I know little). The façade is a little clunky but in the warmer months it’s adorned with arrangements of flowers that soften this stern civic edifice with a bit of welcome frivolity.

When the Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras was merged with the neighbouring bailiwicks of Hampstead and Holborn to form the London Borough of Camden in 1965 this was chosen as the town hall of the new entity, so it’s now referred to as Camden Town Hall.

But of course of all the buildings under the patronage of the fourteen-year-old, fourth-century martyr Pancras, the most prominent is the international railway station across the Euston Road (below) that connects this metropolis with the rest of the continent across the Channel.

Published at 11:00 am on Monday 11 April 2016. Categories: Architecture Errant Thoughts Great Britain Tags: , , .
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There was a concert at St. Pancras Town hall in the last days of that borough; the participants were children from local primary schools. I was at Primrose Hill School and I think that rehearsals took place in John Islip School in Kentish Town. I played recorder. The only tune I can remember us playing was ‘Come out with us, forget your books and in your finest clothes appear, to dance and sing upon the green for summertime is here’

— Jon Collie 31 Mar 2018 1:14 pm
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