ALTERATIONS TO GRAND HOTEL

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 109, 10 May 1935, Page 9

ALTERATIONS TO GRAND HOTEL

C™% elusion and mpdernisation of the n,f" ,Hol *l .in 'Willis. Street has been put ,„ hand by Messrs.. W. Gray Young. Wi' rt fa« d'£?""?' a£ hit <*t9, and the ™^ I Of J* c Pletcner Construction Company has been accepted for the work. The building I? to be brought up to date and r ?i rove in accordance with modern.ideas WT-.t main entr 'i"cc and office lobby in Willis Street will be wholly redecorated and modernised, and the elevator and stairway will be similarly treated. On the first floor there will be extensive alterations. The clay bank at the rear is to be excavated well back, rebattered, and faced with concrete, providing space for an extpnrsion of tho dining-room. T.his addition will mean an apartment 36ft by 20ft, which will serve as an annexe to I the dining-room and may be divided from it by means of curtains, when the occasion arises. There will be a new anteroom, a new ladies' cloakroom, and an enlargement of the gentlemen's cloakroom. The walls of the addition are to be of sufficient strength to carry another floor of bedrooms over the new dining-room annexe and ante-room when the occasion may tu-ise. A start has been marie with the work already. The spoil from the bank is to be removed by hoist and taken away via Bpulcptt Street, ' ' "^