The first inns in Britain were built by the Romans, for the
accommodation of road builders and government officials. Their
history since then ranges from pilgrim hostels built by monasteries
to coaching inns and palatial railway hotels. Throughout this book
runs a rich vein of social history detailing the food, drink,
furnishings and costs of British hotels. Travellers' tales, both
British and foreign, from the sixteenth century onwards, are quoted
at length, so that the book comes alive with first-hand
impressions. We learn how some of the Regency Hotels of London came
into being, such as Grillion's, where Louis XVIII stayed in 1814,
and there are accounts of the early railway hotels, and the great
provincial hotels of Britain's coast and countryside. Mary Cathcart
Borer's study still provides a detailed historical perspective of
her subject almost fifty years on from its first publication, while
at the same time offering a glimpse of contemporary attitudes to
the rapidly expanding British hotel trade in the 1970s.
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