It's impossible to miss the 9 metre high statue, by Paul Day, of the kissing couple at St Pancras Station. However there is more to see if you get up close.A couple of years after its installation a frieze was added around the bottom. This is part of that frieze.
Meet there next time and take a good look at it.
Oh beautiful! I am catching a train from there in three weeks - must make time to take a look!
ReplyDeleteI took some photos of the 'big stiletto' just after they first unveiled it, but I've never seen the frieze. It's not exactly positive advertising for their train services is it!
ReplyDeleteVery interesting!
ReplyDelete"... and they waited happily ever after". What a great and expressive sculpture.
ReplyDeleteThey are not trainspotters, just sitting and waiting for a train.
ReplyDeleteLOL here in Montreal that would be 'waiting for a city bus'! They're doing better now, but a few years ago, their punctuality, or lack thereof, was notorious!
ReplyDeleteThat's really cool!
ReplyDeleteThey look like they've been waiting for a long time.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting sculpture.
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The detailing and playing with perspective is very good throughout this circular frieze and impresses me in a way that the oversized statue which it adorns does not. More to my quiet tastes is the larger-than-life-size but understated statue by Martin Jennings located not too far away of Sir John Betjeman, looking up at the roof that he helped to save.
ReplyDeleteThe waiting room must be a nightmare.
ReplyDeleteTheir expressions and stance are fantastic. But it doesn't say much for the train service, I think.
ReplyDeleteApparently not impossible.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to have to go back and find it!
Great photo!
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OOOOOOOOH!!! I never saw it!!! How come!!!
ReplyDeleteWow!
ReplyDeletei laught
ReplyDeleteOh, cool! I wasn't aware of this statue. Can't imagine how I've missed it!
ReplyDeleteI'm going to have to have a wee wander around the Kings Cross area some time in the near future. I Love the frieze, that is the kind of art I like to see...
ReplyDeleteHmmm. That's not the kind of image I'd want to see at a highspeed station. It might give the rail bosses ideas!!!
ReplyDeleteI'd never seen it, would love to post it on my blog - can I please
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