The Hotel Metropole opened in 1885 as a high class hotel and became a popular venue for banquets, balls and dinner parties. It was requisitioned during the First World War to accommodate government staff, but reopened after the war. In 1936 it was leased by the government and once more provided accommodation for government departments, becoming known as the Metropole Buildings.
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: Boucher, Adolphe Augustus: Bedford Lemere And Company
Lounge (Communal), Victorian Hotel