St Pancras Station, London NW1
GEORGE GILBERT SCOTT’S Midland Hotel and Barlow’s train shed created the finest railway terminal in England. The hotel was closed in 1935, narrowly avoided demolition in the 1960s, occupied by British Rail until 1985, and then abandoned. Neglect can sometimes be benign, however, as the station thereby avoided late-20th-century modernisation. Its superb restoration, combined with the sympathetic re-use of the train shed, provided a two-storey shopping mall, platforms for Eurostar and a new Tube station. The result is a glorious fusion of new and old: the best of all worlds. Giles Quarme, Giles Quarme & Associates
Oldham Town Hall, Greater Manchester
OLDHAM, the ultimate 19th-century cotton-spinning town, has had a tough time over the past 60 years, despite its many assets. One of these is the noble Classical Town Hall, with a series of great interiors that includes a superb faience Egyptian Room. It was shuttered for decades and increasingly derelict, until the council took the brave decision to invest public money in a scheme to convert it as a cinema, saving a great historic building and bringing activity and life back to the heart of Oldham. Here, the very fact of the restoration is something worth celebrating. If our fractured country is to heal, we need much more of this. Christopher Costello, director, Victorian Society
Welsh Streets, Liverpool
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Kitchen garden cook - Apples
'Sweet and crisp, apples are the epitome of autumn flavour'
The original Mr Rochester
Three classic houses in North Yorkshire have come to the market; the owner of one inspired Charlotte Brontë to write Jane Eyre
Get it write
Desks, once akin to instruments of torture for scribes, have become cherished repositories of memories and secrets. Matthew Dennison charts their evolution
'Sloes hath ben my food'
A possible paint for the Picts and a definite culprit in tea fraud, the cheek-suckingly sour sloe's spiritual home is indisputably in gin, says John Wright
Souvenirs of greatness
FOR many years, some large boxes have been stored and forgotten in the dark recesses of the garage. Unpacked last week, the contents turned out to be pots: some, perhaps, nearing a century old—dense terracotta, of interesting provenance.
Plants for plants' sake
The garden at Hergest Croft, Herefordshire The home of Edward Banks The Banks family is synonymous with an extraordinary collection of trees and shrubs, many of which are presents from distinguished friends, garnered over two centuries. Be prepared to be amazed, says Charles Quest-Ritson
Capturing the castle
Seventy years after Christian Dior’s last fashion show in Scotland, the brand returned under creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri for a celebratory event honouring local craftsmanship, the beauty of the land and the Auld Alliance, explains Kim Parker
Nature's own cathedral
Our tallest native tree 'most lovely of all', the stately beech creates a shaded environment that few plants can survive. John Lewis-Stempel ventures into the enchanted woods
All that money could buy
A new book explores the lost riches of London's grand houses. Its author, Steven Brindle, looks at the residences of plutocrats built by the nouveaux riches of the late-Victorian and Edwardian ages
In with the old
Diamonds are meant to sparkle in candlelight, but many now gather dust in jewellery boxes. To wear them today, we may need to reimagine them, as Hetty Lintell discovers with her grandmother's jewellery
