The statue of John Betjeman at St Pancras railway station, London is a depiction in bronze by the sculptor Martin Jennings. The statue was designed and cast in 2007 and was unveiled on 12 November 2007 by Betjeman's daughter, Candida Lycett Green and the then Poet Laureate Andrew Motion to commemorate Betjeman and mark the opening of St Pancras International as the London terminus of the Eurostar high-speed rail link between Great Britain and mainland Europe. The location memorialises the connection between St Pancras station and Betjeman, an early and lifelong advocate of Victorian architecture.
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The statueofJohnBetjeman at St Pancras railway station, London is a depiction in bronze by the sculptor Martin Jennings. The statue was designed and...
Sir JohnBetjeman, CBE (/ˈbɛtʃəmən/; 28 August 1906 – 19 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster. He was Poet Laureate from 1972 until...
introduced the letters and prose of her father JohnBetjeman which were published in three volumes. She was a commissioner of English Heritage for nine years...
tradition, in bronze and stone. His statueofJohnBetjeman at St Pancras railway station was unveiled in 2007 and the statueof Philip Larkin at Hull Paragon...
Sir JohnBetjeman (1906–1984) was a twentieth-century English poet, writer and broadcaster. Born to a middle-class family in Edwardian Hampstead, he attended...
ceremony on 12 November 2007, the bronze statueofJohnBetjeman by sculptor Martin Jennings was unveiled by Betjeman's daughter, the author Candida Lycett...
was chosen as the sculptor because Whitaker admired his sculptures ofJohnBetjeman at St Pancras station and Philip Larkin in Hull. Jennings said that...
(JohnBetjeman made a television programme inside it in 1968 and referred to it as a fully functional police station). It firstly housed officers of the...
Uncle" in a dramatisation of the JohnBetjeman poem "Indoor Games Near Newbury", part of an ITV special titled Betjeman's Britain. Produced and directed...
declined, the position of Poet Laureate in 1984, following the death of Sir JohnBetjeman. After graduating from Oxford University in 1943 with a first in...
H. Minshall and then, in 1933, to Colonel E. R. B. Graham. The poet JohnBetjeman inherited the remaining lease in 1962 but did not extend it. Following...
February 2010. Retrieved 15 April 2010. Historic England. "Statueof a Queen at north end of Queen Square Gardens (1245488)". National Heritage List for...
historical novel covering in detail the characters and events of the time and noted by JohnBetjeman in the Daily Herald (UK newspaper) as "interesting". Pirkei...
returning them. A volume of poems by Sir JohnBetjeman was returned to the library with a new dust jacket featuring a photograph of a nearly naked, heavily...
of season finale, the Oaksey Chase, after him. In 1959 he married JohnBetjeman's former secretary, Victoria ("Tory") Dennistoun, whose father John ("Ginger")...
in a poem by JohnBetjeman. The Trocadero Restaurant of J. Lyons and Co. opened in 1896 on a site on Coventry Street, near the theatres of the West End...
withy branches let the leaves of autumn fly, And a star shone over Bristol, wonderfully far and high. — JohnBetjeman, Bristol Bristol has 51 Grade I...
Square, City of London: 51°30′51″N 0°05′58″W / 51.51417°N 0.09944°W / 51.51417; -0.09944 Betjeman, John (1992) [1967], Sovereign City of London Churches...
kitchen, Iron Age skeleton, a life sized bronze statueof Wantage born Lester Piggott, a bust of Sir JohnBetjeman, Williams F1 display and lots more. The museum...
King Alfred the Great (ca.848/849 – 899), King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886, born in Wantage. JohnBetjeman (1906–1984), Poet Laureate from 1972 to 1984...
Regis". Dorset County Council. 3 February 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2014. JohnBetjeman, ed., 1968 Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches; the South...
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