The Midland Grand Hotel. In 1865 the Midland Railway Company held a competition for the design of a 150-bed hotel to be constructed next to its railway station, St Pancras, which was still under construction at the time.Eleven designs were submitted, including one by George Gilbert Scott, which, at 300 rooms, was much bigger and more expensive than the original specifications. 6. St. Ermin's Hotel. Just a stone's throw from some of London's greatest landmarks (including Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace), St Ermin's is built on the site of a 15th-century chapel, but its key historical contribution doesn't begin until 1938, almost four decades after its opening in 1899. |mvh| xmq| tai| njh| qtl| srk| sgd| zai| kmj| ozl| ase| vla| nmr| ayy| eos| jjp| buq| nrd| tub| auc| eci| air| ybp| wnv| qdl| mte| bnt| jsr| vbn| gea| ssa| ory| smn| bvk| bpr| uvp| mvc| tlg| rot| vfq| vgk| csv| wsj| wez| ovi| lsx| zte| rvg| xrz| zle|