Bob Walkden wrote: > Hi, > Running parallel to Portland Place is Great Portland Street. The office > where I do my slaving is off Gt. Portland St. and there is a hotel there > called "The Fitzrovia" which I suppose could be a candidate for the former > Portland Hotel. > > There are a great many hospitals in that area, on Gt. Portland St. as > well as Portland Place. It's where the rich go for their nips, tucks, > lifts, snips, pulls, tweaks, flayings, scrapings, pumpings, suctions and > tweaks. To say nothing of the rest. > > A search of Google reveals no Portland Hotels at all in London, which > is very surprising. If you don't mind me asking, Lasse, what is your > interest in the hotel? Perhaps a little background could help us > find it.
Hi Bob, thanks. This was my initial post: "Does anyone of you UK PDML:ers happen to know whether there are any free to use pictures of St James Palace and/or the Portland Hotel (as in 1920), London, big enough for use in a newspaper article? Is there still a Portland Hotel around for that matter?" I am finishing this article dealing with a meeting by the League of Nations at St James Palace 9-12 July 1920. A few of the participants, one of them actually a distant relative of mine, stayed at the Portland Hotel. Most of my article actually deals with legal stuff, but I realised that the actual physical or geographical setting for the meeting is not well known, and I thought that a picture or two could add a nice touch to the rather formal contents of this article. Hearing that there is no Portland Hotel around anymore I would either be interested to know whether this hospital (if that's what it is) looks anything like the old hotel, or if I might find an old picture of it, or simple give in on the whole idea.... Lasse > Bob > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Wednesday, May 01, 2002, 9:02:34 PM, you wrote: > > > Hi Lasse, > > > If you have a map of London, Portland Place starts from opposite Regent's > > Park Underground Station (behind Park Crescent) and heads down towards > > Regent Street and Oxford Circus. The BBC radio building is in Portland Place > > and worth a photo or two. I believe the hotel was turned into a private > > hospital. > > > Malcolm > > >> Btw. Anybody knows whether there was/is a part of London called > >> Portland, which may indicate the location of this hotel? > >> > >> Lasse - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
