Comments on: At St Pancras Old Churchyard

By: Charles

Charles — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 14:35:33 +0000

Terrific photography as ever, echoed here:

https://www.beatlesbible.com/1968/07/28/the-mad-day-out-location-five/

By: Laurent

Laurent — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 13:29:20 +0000

Thank you for this nice posting on the church and cemetery, I must go and visit.

By: Claire

Claire — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 10:28:50 +0000

Absolutely fascinating, thank you.

By: Geoff Stocker

Geoff Stocker — Sun, 10 Jun 2018 19:03:06 +0000

Thank you for reminding me of St.Pancras Churchyard my father use to drive down from Chalk Farm this was in the 1950’s and when we went past I would close my eyes because I found it frightening it’s time to return and lay those ghosts. Great article and wonderful photographs .

By: stephanie

stephanie — Sun, 10 Jun 2018 17:43:50 +0000

Beautiful photos. Never been. Always rushed on by. Looks an oasis.
What words from Hardy. An ageless dark humoured terror for the faint hearted; human jam, unforgettable.

How about an Outside Spaces collection of your walks with resplendent photos, poems and voices from the dead?

By: Jennifer Newbold

Jennifer Newbold — Sun, 10 Jun 2018 17:30:05 +0000

“I am here in a place beyond desire and fear.” I really like that sentiment. I hope to be there myself someday.

I didn’t know that about Thomas Hardy. His poem “The Night of Trafalgar” always makes me weep. I’m not sure why.

Thank you, as always, Gentle Author.

By: Peter Holford

Peter Holford — Sun, 10 Jun 2018 13:08:45 +0000

You caught it on a lovely day. I visited this church a few years ago and had good luck with the weather too. I was en route and had just enough time getting from Euston to Waterloo and fitting in a visit to this church. My 3 x great grandparents married here in 1826. But after that most of their family occasions were in St Pancras new church which is quite an impressive edifice.

By: Peter Jenkins

Peter Jenkins — Sun, 10 Jun 2018 11:20:13 +0000

Fascinating – I feel a trip to the church may well be coming on. Thank you for this

By: pauline taylor

pauline taylor — Sun, 10 Jun 2018 11:16:10 +0000

A real treat for me on Sunday morning GA as the first two children of my 3xgreat grandparents Charles and Ann Greenwood were baptized in this church on 27 October 1807, the eldest was Mary Ann Seir Greenwood and the youngest Charles Seir Greenwood, sadly Charles died aged only 10 months and was buried at St Pancras on 17 Jul 1808.

However Charles and Ann Greenwood did go on to have more children and were the grandparents of two famous journalists one of whom, Frederick Francis Greenwood was responsible for encouraging Disraeli to buy the shares in the Suez Canal which made Gt Britain a fortune..! So I was very pleased to see and read this piece about St Pancras as it is not only part of my family history but it is connected with an important event in the history of our country. .Thank you once again GA.

By: Helen Breen

Helen Breen — Sun, 10 Jun 2018 11:10:53 +0000

Greetings from Boston,

GA, great piece about St. Pancras churchyard. I am interested in anything regarding Thomas Hardy, perhaps my favorite 19th century novelist. Hardy’s father was a stonemason and builder in Dorset, so Thomas followed that inclination by studying architecture in London. Yet he returned to West Country which provided a somber setting for his fiction and poetry.

Great photos too – food for thought…