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Great British Railway Journeys: St Pancras to Westminster
Every bit of this programme should be of interest to people here. -- We are the Strasbourg. Referendum is futile. |
Great British Railway Journeys: St Pancras to Westminster
On Feb 6, 4:04*pm, "Basil Jet"
wrote: Every bit of this programme should be of interest to people here. Available on ye olde iPlayer for another 6 days at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qgzr9 - or if you can't get that, but do have digital satellite and a PVR, it's on BBC One Northern Ireland in the early hours of Tuesday morning (though most likely with in-vision signing.) |
Great British Railway Journeys: St Pancras to Westminster
On Feb 6, 4:50*pm, martin wrote:
On Feb 6, 4:04*pm, "Basil Jet" wrote: Every bit of this programme should be of interest to people here. Available on ye olde iPlayer for another 6 days athttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qgzr9 - or if you can't get that, but do have digital satellite and a PVR, it's on BBC One Northern Ireland in the early hours of Tuesday morning (though most likely with in-vision signing.) Having just watched it on iPlayer, I see that version has in-vision signing too. (While Michael Portillo points out that the public 'aren't generally allowed' to visit Big Ben, you can write to your MP to request a tour. It's well worth it. Details can be found at http://www.parliament.uk/visiting/vi...urs/bigben.cfm ) |
Great British Railway Journeys: St Pancras to Westminster
On 06.02.10 16:50, martin wrote:
On Feb 6, 4:04 pm, "Basil Jet" wrote: Every bit of this programme should be of interest to people here. Available on ye olde iPlayer for another 6 days at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qgzr9 - or if you can't get that, but do have digital satellite and a PVR, it's on BBC One Northern Ireland in the early hours of Tuesday morning (though most likely with in-vision signing.) Very interesting. I wonder if it's possible to get any tours of St. Pancras hotel. Or have the jobsworths over at Health & Safety decreed that it's "dangerous"? |
Great British Railway Journeys: St Pancras to Westminster
On Feb 7, 12:30*pm, " wrote: On 06.02.10 16:50, martin wrote: On Feb 6, 4:04 pm, "Basil Jet" *wrote: Every bit of this programme should be of interest to people here. Available on ye olde iPlayer for another 6 days at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qgzr9 - or if you can't get that, but do have digital satellite and a PVR, it's on BBC One Northern Ireland in the early hours of Tuesday morning (though most likely with in-vision signing.) Very interesting. I wonder if it's possible to get any tours of St. Pancras hotel. Or have the jobsworths over at Health & Safety decreed that it's "dangerous"? I haven't watched the programme yet but St Pancras Chambers/ Midland Grand Hotel is currently in the midst of being renovated and turrned back into a hotel on the lower levels, with apartments on the upper levels. I dare suggest the builders wouldn't be wildly keen on umpteen visitors traipsing through their worksite! |
Great British Railway Journeys: St Pancras to Westminster
In message , "
writes I wonder if it's possible to get any tours of St. Pancras hotel. Probably not now that renovation has started. But it was certainly possible to take a tour during one of the London Open House weekends a few years ago. Sadly, I missed it for some reason. -- Paul Terry |
Great British Railway Journeys: St Pancras to Westminster
On Feb 7, 2:07*pm, Paul Terry wrote: In message , " writes I wonder if it's possible to get any tours of St. Pancras hotel. Probably not now that renovation has started. But it was certainly possible to take a tour during one of the London Open House weekends a few years ago. Sadly, I missed it for some reason. Ditto. Rather annoyed I did now, looking back on it. Oh well. |
Great British Railway Journeys: St Pancras to Westminster
Mizter T wrote:
On Feb 7, 12:30 pm, " wrote: I wonder if it's possible to get any tours of St. Pancras hotel. I dare suggest the builders wouldn't be wildly keen on umpteen visitors traipsing through their worksite! You could try saying "I tell you what I want, what I really really want". -- We are the Strasbourg. Referendum is futile. |
Great British Railway Journeys: St Pancras to Westminster
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Great British Railway Journeys: St Pancras to Westminster
"Basil Jet" wrote in message
Every bit of this programme should be of interest to people here. Incidentally, I see that Rail is reporting that Michael Portillo says the Beeb have asked him to do another series, though this hasn't yet been confirmed by the Beeb itself. Viewership was apparently better than expected (over 2m). |
Great British Railway Journeys: St Pancras to Westminster
On Feb 7, 3:15*pm, "Basil Jet" wrote: Mizter T wrote: On Feb 7, 12:30 pm, " wrote: I wonder if it's possible to get any tours of St. Pancras hotel. I dare suggest the builders wouldn't be wildly keen on umpteen visitors traipsing through their worksite! You could try saying "I tell you what I want, what I really really want". Shhh... don't tell anyone the zigga ziggahh magic password... |
Great British Railway Journeys: St Pancras to Westminster
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Great British Railway Journeys: St Pancras to Westminster
Recliner wrote:
"Basil Jet" wrote in message Every bit of this programme should be of interest to people here. Incidentally, I see that Rail is reporting that Michael Portillo says the Beeb have asked him to do another series, though this hasn't yet been confirmed by the Beeb itself. Viewership was apparently better than expected (over 2m). I hope they get a new tune to play over the next one. I liked the existing one the first dozen times they played it. -- We are the Strasbourg. Referendum is futile. |
Great British Railway Journeys: St Pancras to Westminster
On 6 Feb, 17:29, martin wrote:
(While Michael Portillo points out that the public 'aren't generally allowed' to visit Big Ben, you can write to your MP to request a tour. It's well worth it. Details can be found athttp://www.parliament.uk/visiting/visitingandtours/bigben.cfm) 334 steps - to commemorate Bradman's innings at Leeds in 1930. |
Great British Railway Journeys: St Pancras to Westminster
On 6 Feb, 16:04, "Basil Jet"
wrote: Every bit of this programme should be of interest to people here. You are right sir! How could they get so much into a ½-hr programme? And Portillo is such a good presenter; he is a great advert for the Oxbridge Universities, whichever one he went to. He also did a very moving programme recently where he met some of his family in Spain, still divided from the horrors of the Spanish Civil War. He said he used to have a flat on Whitehall in the Admiralty. I wonder how he got that? Was he in the Civil Service before becoming an MP? When he went to the Cock Tavern, Smithfield, he said that until recently non-bummarees were not allowed in. I thought that outsiders were always allowed in at any time of day. I kept meaning to go there at 6am but I never did. As a complex, KXStP must be mind-boggling; from the far end of the new glass canopy on the Eurostar platforms, stretching underground right through and fully connected to KX International, and even encompassing alternative dimensions at Platform 9¾, it must be almost an 8-hour day to see everything. |
Great British Railway Journeys: St Pancras to Westminster
On Feb 8, 11:51*am, Offramp wrote: [snip] He said he used to have a flat on Whitehall in the Admiralty. I wonder how he got that? Was he in the Civil Service before becoming an MP? Some ministers get flats there - I think he would have had t when he was SoS for Defence. (John Major lived there as PM when repairs were being done to No 10 after the IRA mortar attacks.) |
Great British Railway Journeys: St Pancras to Westminster
"Offramp" wrote in message
On 6 Feb, 16:04, "Basil Jet" wrote: Every bit of this programme should be of interest to people here. You are right sir! How could they get so much into a ½-hr programme? And Portillo is such a good presenter; he is a great advert for the Oxbridge Universities, whichever one he went to. He also did a very moving programme recently where he met some of his family in Spain, still divided from the horrors of the Spanish Civil War. He said he used to have a flat on Whitehall in the Admiralty. I wonder how he got that? Was he in the Civil Service before becoming an MP? Wouldn't this have been while he was defence secretary in the mid 1990s? |
Great British Railway Journeys: St Pancras to Westminster
On 8 Feb, 12:19, "Recliner" wrote:
"Offramp" wrote in message On 6 Feb, 16:04, "Basil Jet" wrote: Every bit of this programme should be of interest to people here. You are right sir! How could they get so much into a ½-hr programme? And Portillo is such a good presenter; he is a great advert for the Oxbridge Universities, whichever one he went to. He also did a very moving programme recently where he met some of his family in Spain, still divided from the horrors of the Spanish Civil War. He said he used to have a flat on Whitehall in the Admiralty. I wonder how he got that? Was he in the Civil Service before becoming an MP? Wouldn't this have been while he was defence secretary in the mid 1990s? That seems to be it. At 21:37 he says "At one time I used to live in a flat up there in Admiralty House." For some reason I thought he mentioned that he was not an MP at the time. I was wrong! |
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