St Pancras Gardens – Thomas Hardy’s tree and The Beatles

At St Pancras Gardens near King’s Cross you can find this ash tree which has grown over the years into the surrounding gravestones. They are a record of the work Thomas Hardy, a surveyor and architect’s assistant, supervised when appointed to exhume human remains and dismantle the tombs to make way for the new Midland railway line in 1865. We, of course know him better as writer and poet

More recently, The Beatles were photographed on this bench for their Mad Day Out photo session with Don McCullin in 1968 for the White Album.