In message , at
06:01:05 on Fri, 4 Oct 2013, Offramp remarked:

Does the hotel or its staff mind if people use it as a short cut.

Not as far as I can tell, but it's a while since I've been there.

It reminds me of the old Woolworth's at Victoria which was the shortest route from Vauxhall Bridge Rd to the station. 75,000 people a day went
through that shop spending a total of £15.11.

There's a Boots at High St Kensington which is the best exit for the
conference hotels, and by co-incidence the Boots at the Victoria
Shopping Centre (on the site of the old station) is a very handy exit in
Nottingham.
--
Roland Perry

Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at
06:01:05 on Fri, 4 Oct 2013, Offramp remarked:

Does the hotel or its staff mind if people use it as a short cut.

Not as far as I can tell, but it's a while since I've been there.

It reminds me of the old Woolworth's at Victoria which was the shortest
route from Vauxhall Bridge Rd to the station. 75,000 people a day went
through that shop spending a total of £15.11.

There's a Boots at High St Kensington which is the best exit for the
conference hotels, and by co-incidence the Boots at the Victoria Shopping
Centre (on the site of the old station) is a very handy exit in Nottingham.

Surprisingly, the High St Ken Boots doesn't make you take a meandering
route out -- you can go straight through very easily.

In article ,
(Offramp) wrote:

Does the hotel or its staff mind if people use it as a short cut.

It reminds me of the old Woolworth's at Victoria which was the
shortest route from Vauxhall Bridge Rd to the station. 75,000 people
a day went through that shop spending a total of £15.11.

Who here remembers Woolworth's in St Ives (Cornwall)? You could enter in the
High Street and exit two floors down on the quay.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 02:50:11PM +0100, Recliner wrote:

I finally managed to take an upstairs tour this week, having
previously only seen the parts open to the public at lobby level.

Wow!

Was this part of the London Open House weekend?

--
David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig

I don't do .INI, .BAT, or .SYS files. I don't assign apps to files.
I don't configure peripherals or networks before using them. I have
a computer to do all that. I have a Macintosh, not a hobby.
-- Fritz Anderson

David Cantrell wrote:
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 02:50:11PM +0100, Recliner wrote:

I finally managed to take an upstairs tour this week, having
previously only seen the parts open to the public at lobby level.

Wow!

Was this part of the London Open House weekend?

No, part of a private tour that also included Cubitt's Granary Building,
now occupied by the Central St Martins campus.
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