GHOSTS LOSE HOME
OLD HOTEL TO GO Landmark in London for travellers from all over the world for 162 years, the old Adelphi Hotel closed its doors for the last time the other night. Two years ago, when the old buildings of the Adelphi fell to the housebreakers' hammer, the Adelphi Hotel, where Mr Pickwick is supposed to have had his first meal after coming out of the debtors' prison, fell too, and only the tiny bar remained to carry on the traditions. "The ghost of David Garrick will walk to-night," one of the "Old Timers " who has not missed his " daily" pint at the old Adelphi for 43 years, told a reporter of the Sunday Chronicle. "The Adelphi was Garrick's favourite inn. He used to come here every night before he went to the theatre. "It was from this inn that William Terriss walked to his death at the hands of a madman at the stage door of the Adelphi Theatre across the road."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23883, 10 August 1939, Page 12
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