SCARBOROUGH’S Royal Hotel

 

 Image of the plaques on the Grand Hotel, Scarborough. By John Stephenson, released to the Public domain.

SCARBOROUGH’S Royal Hotel has gone into administration, along with three other

 hotels, putting 159 jobs at risk.

 The famous hotel, built in the 1830s and stayed in by Prime Ministers Winston

 Churchill and Harold Wilson, along with the town’s 70-bedroom Clifton Hotel,

 appointed administrators MCR.

 The 118-bedroom Royal Hotel, which employs 77 people, is known for its famous

 staircase and atrium of the Regency style after the site used to be The Long

 Room, a social venue frequented by the upper classes in the 1700s. It was

 extended in 1863 over six or seven houses, one of which was where Anne Bronte

 died.

 Read more: Gazette Herald Fears_for_future_of_four_Scarborough_hotels/

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