If you’ve ever thought it would be really fun to spend time rummaging through antique shops and reclamation warehouses with a seriously deep wallet, in order to furnish a property, then London hotels Hazlitt’s, and Batty Langley’s would make you seriously jealous! What’s more is that they’re both 17th century buildings, and the interior furnishing is pretty much all period, from the radiators, shower fittings, and bathroom hooks, to the door knockers, desks, chairs and beds. Hazlitt’s is as about as central as it gets in London’s West End, right next to Soho Square and surrounded by night life, restaurants, and theatres to the point that you’d need a few weeks to do it all any serious justice. Curiously, the noise that this suggests wasn’t a problem for us as we had a room at the back of the hotel, which made it feel like we were miles from anywhere, without even that familiar background noise of the city I’d normally expect. Batty Langley’s is one of the newer properties in this group of unique hotels and is hidden away in a side street within 5 minutes walk of Liverpool Street station; a couple of minutes to Spittalfields Market; and next […]
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Judging by the photographs in the visitor information booklets at Markree Castle hotel, the building was in a ruinous state and nothing short of a mess in the late 1980s. The elder brother of Charles Cooper, who had been offered £6000 to pull it down completely, had recently inherited the property. But Charles managed to purchase the property from his brother, and there begins the story of how this spectacular countryside hotel became what it is today.
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Apparently there’s a story going around that cream teas were invented in Tavistock in the county of Devon in south-west England, back in the 10th century. The monks of Tavistock Abbey were having some help in rebuilding their monastery and they rewarded the helpers with bread, jam and clotted cream.
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