St. Pancras Railway Station, North London...
On the upper level, above the Arcade concourse, stands a bronze statue of the former Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman , gazing in apparent wonder at the Barlow roof. Designed by British sculptor Martin Jennings, the statue commemorates the poet's successful campaign to save the station from demolition in the 1960s. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] The 2-metre (6 ft 7 in)-high statue stands on a flat disc of Cumbrian slate inscribed with lines from Betjeman's poem Cornish Cliffs : And in the shadowless unclouded glare / Deep blue above us fades to whiteness where / A misty sea-line meets the wash of air. —John Betjeman, Cornish Cliffs, [ 30 ]