All photos: Simon Lamrock

WILD peregrine falcons are ruling the roost at the St Pancras Clock Tower, picking off racing pigeons.

Photographer Simon Lamrock snapped this gory image of one of the protected birds with its prey. The owner of a home beneath the landmark building’s clock face said the birds were nesting there and that he was routinely finding remains of racing pigeons with tags containing phone numbers for owners.

“We first realised the falcons had taken up residence in the clock tower when pigeon bones and racing pigeon tags started appearing on our window sills,” said Peter Tompkins, who has lived in the converted Clock Tower since the new St Pancras opened in 2009.

“In the remains you find these blue tags with telephone numbers of the racing pigeons. When you call them the owners are not surprised. Because if you are a racing pigeon owner, they do quite often find that they have been eaten.”

The Clock Tower sits at the top of St Pancras Chambers, the modern name for what was built as the Midland Grand Hotel – a railway terminus hotel which was constructed at St Pancras by the Midland Railway from 1868 to 1876, with the hotel first opening in 1873.