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 This is a small family run hotel, owned by the same family for more than 30 years. Our warmth and hospitality has brought back the same guests over and over again. The building is a 200 year old Georgian Town House located in the heart of the Literary Bloomsbury - home of the University of London. You are within walking distance of the British Museum, Piccadilly Circus, Oxford Street shopping area, cinemas, restaurants and Theatre Land.
Gower street takes its name from Lady Gertrude Leveson-Gower, whose husband was the 4th Duke of Bedford. Lady Gertrude supervised the development of this section of her husband's estate when Gower Street was abuilding in the 1790s. |
 Records for 1871 show No. 79 in use as a lodging-house under the proprietorship of James Turner 36, a native of Straffordshire. Turner's guests in the April of that year were truly cosmopolitan: a 25-year-old publisher from Mexico, Lorenzo Caballos, a Uruguayan student, Rodolfo de Arteuga 20, a Paris-born student named Gaston Crelat 22, a Scottish commercial traveller called John Forbes 31 and another commercial traveller named Frederick Simpson 28, from Halifax in Yorkshire. |
 By 1881 No. 79 Gower Street had become a 'College Home' for students of Bedford College, which had been founded in 1849 in Regent's Park by Mrs Elizabeth Jesser Reid to provide young woman with a liberal education. In 1914 the proprietor was Jay Mack and in 1919 a Mrs Thorpe. In 1937 the owner was Miss Anne Reavely who, as we have seen, amalgamated the property with No. 77. Arran House stands out on the block because of its exceptionally kind proprietor, Mr Richards. He ensured that even guests in the front rooms get a quiet night's sleep by soundproofing all the windows - and I can assure you it really works!
"Let's Go 1997" - The Arran House Hotel offers various precious details, spotless bathrooms and lovely garden. |
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