Former guests at the Grade-II listed hotel include The Beatles and Laurel and Hardy. Find out more about the hotel here: (📷 Stephen McKay / Geograph)
A Grade-II listed hotel in Bradford, whose famous former guests include The Beatles and Laurel and Hardy, has been sold to the Britannia Hotels chain.Christie & Co, who brokered the sale, said the deal would mean the building remained as a hotel during Bradford's year as UK City of Culture 2025.Former owners the Peel Group said the hotel had some of the "finest Victorian interiors in the city", including a passageway with floor to ceiling decorative Burmantofts tiles.
The hotel is also allegedly haunted by Sir Henry Irving - who died in the building more than 100 years ago. After the sale was announced, Robert Peel, owner of Peel Hotels, said: "The Midland Hotel has always been a great favourite of mine.
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