The Anonymous Widower

How Do You Make A New Threadbare Carpet?

You could ask why you need one too, but here’s the paragraph from Modern Railways describing the sumptuous interior of the new Midland Grand Hotel, that is soon to open at St. Pancras.

Here is the grand staircase, made famous in a score of films, with a sumptuous new carpet from Brintons of Kidderminster – but wait, the carpet does not look that new.  No it has been specially woven to look a little threadbare, to be in keeping with the age of its surroundings.

The hotel must also be unique in that it will feature a Ladies Smoking Room, where smoking will not be allowed.

The Telegraph has an article here.

Will this become the best station hotel in the world?  If it does, Sir John Betjeman will be chuckling out loud.  It is certainly attached to a station that the head of French Railways, once said was the best station in the world.

February 4, 2011 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel, World | Hotel, Smoking, St. Pancras Station, Trains