Hotels in London

History

Before the 19th century there were few, if large London hotels. British country landowners often lived in London during part of the year, but usually rent a house, if not one, instead of staying at a hotel. The number of companies and foreign visitors were very small by modern standards. The accommodation of them including pensions and inns. Lodging houses were more like private homes with rooms to rent, hotels, and often run by widows. inns served passengers from the coaches that were the primary means of transporting passengers over long distances before the railroads began to develop in 1830. The last surviving coaching hotel with galleries in London is the George Inn, which now belongs to the National. Some hotels in the most modern varieties began to be built in the 19th century. Mivart For example, the precursor of Claridge's, opened its doors in 1812, but until the mid-19th century, London's hotels were generally small. In his book of North American travel (1862), the writer Anthony Trollope said the much larger American hotels were the British. But this time the railways had begun to bring more short-term visitors to London, and the railway companies themselves took the initiative to accommodate them by building a series of hotel "train" next to his terms in London. These buildings were seen as status symbols by the railway companies, the largest companies in the country at the time, and some of them were great. They include:

    * The Midland Grand Hotel at St. Pancras (closed 1935, reopened as due to the Renaissance Hotel in 2009/10)
    * The Great Western Hotel in Paddington (now the Hilton London Paddington and the first railway hotels in Britain)
    * The Great Northern Hotel at King's Cross (closed for high-speed one works and should be rebuilt as a boutique hotel)
    * The Great Eastern Hotel in Liverpool Street (now Andaz Liverpool Street)
    * L 'Hotel Charing Cross Station Charing Cross
    * The Great Central Hotel at Marylebone (now The Landmark London)
    * The Grosvenor Hotel in Victoria