Just like in America, these cookie-cutter, cut-rate lodgings by the sides of the motorway (and in the cities) offer cheap, reliable rooms—if not a particularly memorable stay
A familiar chain hotel just down the road from Stonehenge
Harrods of London installed a novelty in 1898: the world's first true escalator (to be fair, an inclined moving belt with metal bars for traction did make its debut two years earlier on Coney Island). The oddness of a moving staircase so unnerved many shoppers that employees were stationed near it with smelling salts and cognac to help revive those overcome with fear.
