An interior view of the Dutch Room, a sitting or dining room within the newly-refurbished Hotel Metropole on Northumberland Avenue, looking towards the tiled fireplace. Likely to have been a room in one of the high-status accommodation suites.

Date:
Jun 1921 - Aug 1921
Location:
Hotel Metropole, Northumberland Avenue, City Of Westminster, Greater London Authority, Sw1
Reference:
BL25684
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

The Hotel Metropole was opened in 1885 as a luxury hotel in the heart of the capital. It was requisitioned as accommodation or government staff during World War One, re-opening as a hotel in 1921. This photograph documents the hotel's refurbishment at the time of the re-opening, and was commissioned by Hampton and Sons Limited, furnishers, who almost certainly participated in the refurbishment.

Content

This is part of the Series: HBL01/01 Series Of Photographic Negatives And Prints; within the Collection: HBL01 The Bedford Lemere Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

Keywords

Vernacular Revival, Sitting Room, Fireplace, Victorian Grand Hotel