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St. Pancras, the West End
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On the east side of Regents Park is St. Pancras. Owned by Lord Southampton, this area is home to the Covent Gardens Workhouse, one of the main facilities where the poor can nd work in the great houses of Marylebone or one of the many furniture makers in the district. (St. Pancras has, in fact, the largest number of furniture manufacturers in the city.) Dominating the region are small family-owned shops that do woodworking, blacksmithing and brass polishing, upholstery, cabinet making, and coach work for carriages and train cars.
Also here are the cavalry barracks for units assigned to London, and the New Women’s Hospital, set up by the illustrious Elizabeth Garret Anderson, one of the rst female physicians in the country. It is the only hospital to specialize in women’s issues. The largest and most impressive building in the district is Euston Station, a gorgeous neo-classical terminal built in 1838, and which handles much of the train traf c from the middle of the country.
Unlike St. Johns Wood, St. Pancras is mostly populated by middle-class and working-class professionals in various trades related to furnishings. This is a hard-working district and crime is low, due to a combination of policing and people willing to interfere in criminal enterprises.
