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Monday Miscellanea

More London-oriented historical trivia for a Monday morning.

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In Pictures: Naked Cowboy at St Pancras

Definitely dishy and with more swaggering American confidence than any man should probably be allowed, New York’s very own Naked Cowboy sauntered into St Pancras raring to go and keen to big up the New York Bagel Co’s UK relaunch. No he actually wasn’t naked, …

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New York’s Naked Cowboy + Free Bagels @ St Pancras, 1pm Today

Times Square’s famed Naked Cowboy (aka Robert Burck), will be at King’s Cross St Pancras Station (near the First Capital Connect entrance) today at 1pm with his strategically placed guitar, a pair of boots, a ten gallon hat, a bunch of freebie bagels and little else.

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Monday Miscellanea

Some numbers and a corresponding image to start the week… 34 days until the clocks go back 89 days until Christmas 14 Mondays left in the year 34 X 89 X 14 = 42,364 which is a tranquil view of London from Greenwich Park as …

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Book Review: St Pancras Station by Simon Bradley

Time Out recently presented St Pancras Station as their inaugural ‘Wonder of London’. Profile Books goes a couple of stages further by including the terminus in its ‘wonders of the world’ series – buildings and monuments, such as the Colosseum, Stonehenge and the Forbidden City, …

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A New Bar For A New Eurostar

If train-spotting be your bag, then you can soon enjoy it with bubbles. Set to open alongside the new London terminus for Eurostar in St Pancras Station is the ‘world’s longest champagne bar‘. The 78 m expanse – brainchild of catering company Searcy, operator of …

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St Pancras ♥ Grand Central

Well this is rather splendid. St Pancras Station is likely to be twinned with the iconic Grand Central in New York: London & Continental said the twinning would be an historic agreement, linking two of the world’s most architecturally impressive train stations. Well we do …