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Clough
21-05-2012, 08:51 PM
VISITED WITH FOWLE

QUEENS HOTEL

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This was one of my first explores a couple of years ago, me and Fowle were bored so ended up just walking round Leeds seeing what trouble we could get into. This wasnt the prime target of the night but as we walked past the back way into the hotel the door was open so we popped in to see if her majesty was in...

Queens Hotel is owned by Quintessential Hotels, I dont know how they keep it running! No one seems to inhabit it!

It is an elegant Art Deco Grade II listed building. It was constructed in 1937 by architects W.Curtis Green and W.H. Hamlyn for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. It is a four star hotel and it has a total of 217 rooms. I stayed in it once for LOLs with our lass was ok, we got some sandwiches or some shit and the guy at the door who give us them put his hand out slightly and didnt say bye or leave, I was like "eh?" and closed the door. About 2 hours later I worked out your ment to tip them but fuck that at £3 for a bottle of water in the minibar the fooker should of tipped me.

It was acquired in 2003 by Quintissential Hotels who gave it a £10 million makeover. Previous owners other than LMS and Quintissential Hotels have included the publicly owned British Transport Hotels between 1948 and the early 1980s and latterly the Forte Group hotel and catering company.

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After a warl we went walking in the lift room and found some steps upto all the lift room working stuff. They got all the old workings still up there throu out the year must of being easier to just leave them up there then cart them throu the hotel...

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Thats it!

Thanks!