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The Grand 3.53 bar booze hotel quiz real ale restaurant food music garden wifi vegetarian :: [comment] :: [delete]
Mostly converted to apartments, but still seemingly a hotel too. www.grand.uk.com. Aha It operates as an "Apartment Hotel"; the apartments are self contained with their own kitchen facilities, but are serviced, and there are bars and restaurants. So one has the best of both worlds - an apartment with hotel facilities.
Excellent bar in Keppel's, can be too quiet though.
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Oct19
Bah, can anyone see any of the embedded videos below? What did I do? And then all the videos came back...
What I did do today is walk up to the out of town Sainsbury's on a quest for Coke Zero, as no-one in town has it... also tried to sign up at a dentist, YES I KNOW you are not accepting NHS patients, but please don't speak to me like I'm an unemployed! I do have some work now ACTUALLY, a fairly short contract, but all will be revealed soon.
Tonight: off to Keppel's, the bar under The Grand, a big old hotel type affair down the end of the road. Not been in there before, I always thought it might be a bit quiet and lacking, like most hotel bars. On my recent jaunt there to try and give blood I noticed a sign saying "Real Ales", so that's got to be worth a look...
Keppel's is named after Alice Keppel, mistress of Edward VII, and I think she's also an ancestor of that woman who won Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
Here's a history of The Grand, it's not quite as down-at-heel as that guy makes it sound, but it's not the kind of place for secret royal liaisons any more. It's "managed apartments" now, rather than a hotel as you might understand it, but still an impressive looking place. Not so sure about the reference to Keppel's as a restaurant though, will report back... in the mean time here's a nice snippet of showbiz history from the history I just linked to:
Robert Morley and Michael Caine made their stage debuts at Grand Hotel, and Agatha Christie wrote Murder on the Orient Express in this very building.
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Agatha Christie's - A Murder is Announced Hazlett Theatre 31 Oct 2007 Performed by the Willington players, in their 60th year!50% parking discount - please speak to the Hazlitt Theatre. Charity Nights Tuesday - Cancer Research UK Wednesday - Rotary, Langley Church. 01622 758611
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Agatha Christie's - A Murder is Announced Hazlett Theatre 31 Oct 2006 Performed by the Willington players, in their 60th year!50% parking discount - please speak to the Hazlitt Theatre. Charity Nights Tuesday - Cancer Research UK Wednesday - Rotary, Langley Church. 01622 758611
