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A cheap chain hotel in The City, between St. Paul's and the Tower of London
Basic, bland motel with a great location—and attached to one of London's most historic pubs where Shakespeare once drank
A cheap (for London) chain hotel bang in the center of London's West End
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.