No! no! She was an inspired and inspiring advocate of the beautiful, with a delicious sense of fun and wonderful use of language, I saw this when it was originally broadcast and am delighted to find it again.
One can't help thinking of the multifarious craftsmen employed to exercise their stupendous skills in constructing this wonderful building. Nor can one forget the philistines who wanted to pull it down and replace it with something that would now look dull and mundane.
A wondrous building. I have longed to stay there. But unfortunately at prices between £350 and £450 per night and up it alas will remain a dream. Thank you Lucinda for capturing it in its glorious state of decay.
Sheer class! And oozing with a pulchritude of sheer eccentricity. Bring back Lucy Lambton to our screenx today and reverse the trenx of dumbed dosn T.V? BBC4 could show these programmes all again.
I love it! 6:38 The poem has the same meter, and almost the exact same structure, as the Women's Christian Temperance Union's "Stay, mortal, stay! Nor heedless thus, thy sure destruction seal...... ......disease and death, forever nigh, lie waiting at the door, and eager wait to hear the cry, 'Oh, give me one glass more!'." And speaking of almost exactly the same, St. Pancras' tower surely served as the model for NYC's Woolworth Building's Pinnacle (which currently is being offered as a 7-level penthouse, for 110 million).
St Enoch's in Glasgow was its opposite number that didn't survive architectural vandalism. I have traveled on Eurostar from here & it is indeed grandly restored today. If only the Imperial Institute had also survived. So much lost, but so much still to preserve.
I wish we could see and hear more of Lucinda Lambton. She is compulsive viewing, so interesting, entertaining and wonderfully articulate. Love her.
No! no! She was an inspired and inspiring advocate of the beautiful, with a delicious sense of fun and wonderful use of language, I saw this when it was originally broadcast and am delighted to find it again.
An amazing building the hotel is amazing. So much detail.
Thanks for uploading.
Lady Lucinda. Where is she? Why can't we see her in programmes like this now?
She’s great I’m her relative she hasn’t changed lol
One can't help thinking of the multifarious craftsmen employed to exercise their stupendous skills in constructing this wonderful building. Nor can one forget the philistines who wanted to pull it down and replace it with something that would now look dull and mundane.
A wondrous building. I have longed to stay there. But unfortunately at prices between £350 and £450 per night and up it alas will remain a dream.
Thank you Lucinda for capturing it in its glorious state of decay.
Great little show. Thank you for making it available.
I don't know what I miss most, programmes like this or the shoulder pads.
lolol
Sheer class! And oozing with a pulchritude of sheer eccentricity. Bring back Lucy Lambton to our screenx today and reverse the trenx of dumbed dosn T.V? BBC4 could show these programmes all again.
I love it! 6:38 The poem has the same meter, and almost the exact same structure, as the Women's Christian Temperance Union's "Stay, mortal, stay! Nor heedless thus, thy sure destruction seal...... ......disease and death, forever nigh, lie waiting at the door, and eager wait to hear the cry, 'Oh, give me one glass more!'." And speaking of almost exactly the same, St. Pancras' tower surely served as the model for NYC's Woolworth Building's Pinnacle (which currently is being offered as a 7-level penthouse, for 110 million).
St Enoch's in Glasgow was its opposite number that didn't survive architectural vandalism. I have traveled on Eurostar from here & it is indeed grandly restored today. If only the Imperial Institute had also survived. So much lost, but so much still to preserve.
The Victorian society was born to see to things like this: I wonder if it is still going today?
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I just started watching Dan Cruikshank's series: The family that built Gothic Britain.....you just might like it.😎
@@nelsonunit7000 Yes,The Victorian Society club still very much exists.
That was a great one too with "Whispering Dan" lol@@rpm1796
Having Sunday Lunch in The Ticket Office in 3 hrs & then on to The Theee ay tar. 🥰🥂🇬🇧
good presenter very interesting
Great story, terrible presenter. If you want to read the whole story done properly then it’s the book St Pancras Station by Simon Bradley