The Hotel Great Central (1897-99) was designed by Colonel R W Edis to service Marylebone railway station. The completed hotel was one of the grandest of the London railway hotels, but with the ascent of the motor car and associated decline in rail traffic the hotel fell out of favour. During the Second World War it served as a convalescent home and subsequently offices, before reopening as a hotel in the 1990s. The image shows the marble work of Galbraith and Winton and the furnishings of Maple and Company, whose owner John Blundell Maple also owned the Hotel Great Central.
This is part of the Series: HBL01/01 Series Of Photographic Negatives And Prints; within the Collection: HBL01 The Bedford Lemere Collection
Source: Historic England Archive
Photographer: Lemere, Henry Bedford: Bedford Lemere And Company
Owner: Blundell Maple, John
Architect: Edis, R W
Staircase, Victorian Railway Hotel