Speaker - Nigel Lowey - The Transformation of St Pancras

Tue Jan 20 2026 at 10:00 am to 12:00 pm UTC+00:00

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Speaker - Nigel Lowey - The Transformation of St Pancras
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ABOUT Nigel Lowey
An IT Consultant in real life, with knowledge of history and architecture & design.
My original amateur interest in the madly-Gothic St. Pancras hotel building over several years led to closer involvement, and eventually being asked to comment on the planning application for the restoration of the Victorian Gothic buildings.
I was asked to do a talk about my interest for a local library. Then a local history society. And a W.I. And because speaker finders talk to each other, suddenly I was doing a talk every few months!
I don't do online talks; I'm not a natural small-screen presenter: I wave my arms around too much which looks mad. I also like meeting real people.
ST PANCRAS
St. Pancras was a 14-year-old Christian boy who was martyred in Rome in AD304 by the Emperor Diocletian. In Britain he is better known as a railway station.
This talk is for anyone with an interest in history, world-class architecture, elegant engineering, or a great story; it covers the incredible changes of mid-Victorian Britain, and describes how the fantastic cathedral-like station came to be built and how the long-neglected buildings underwent a breathtaking transformation. It's not about trains.
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