Yes, it was closed during much of the time that I commuted to the MOD from
Cambridgeshire, through King's Cross, next to St Pancras (for the benefit of
those not familiar with the geography of this part of London).
But it was always intended to be a hotel; wasn't it Betjeman who organised its
salvation from the demolition teams?
Chris
On 18 Feb 2013, at 14:05, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes and no, Chris. The Midland Grand originally did open as a railway hotel,
> but having been designed with more of an eye to grandeur and opulence than
> to commercial success, it did not have any running water in any of it rooms.
> It therefore closed in 1935, and the rooms became railway company offices,
> in which state they festered for 50 years.
>
> Although they had the headline right, they did not edit the numerous
> reader-supplied references to "train stations". Yuck.
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