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  2. Common lodging-house - Wikipedia

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    Communal dining area of a Common lodging-house in New York, circa 1910 Children within a Common lodging-house, Christmas 1910. Urban reformer Jacob Riis was not only an advocate for improving the condition of people living in cheap lodging houses; he had lived in them as a young man, an experience he described in his slum memoir How the Other Half Lives (1890).

  3. Flophouse - Wikipedia

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    Historically, flophouses, or British "doss-houses", have been used for overnight lodging by those who needed the lowest-cost alternative to staying with others, shelters, or sleeping outside. Generally, rooms are small, bathrooms are shared, and bedding is minimal, sometimes with mattresses or mats on the floor, or canvas sheets stretched ...

  4. Driscoll House - Wikipedia

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    Driscoll House A TV lounge, 2006. Driscoll House is a building at 172 New Kent Road, London, England, which has operated as a hostel since 1913.The building is on the south side of New Kent Road, between the Bricklayers Arms flyover and Elephant and Castle station, and is a well-detailed example of the pre-World War I institutional Baroque style.

  5. Hotels in London - Wikipedia

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    There is no official registry of hotel rooms in London, but the estimated number of hotel rooms in Greater London in 2010 was put at 123,000. [1] According to figures produced in support of London's 2012 Olympic bid , there were more than 70,000 three to five-star hotel rooms within 10 kilometres of Central London in 2003.

  6. Elm Guest House hoax - Wikipedia

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    The Elm Guest House was a hotel in Rocks Lane, near Barnes Common in southwest London.In a list produced by convicted fraudster Chris Fay, several prominent British men were alleged to have engaged in sexual abuse and child grooming at the Guest House in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

  7. Rowton Houses - Wikipedia

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    The Rowton House in Highgate, Birmingham, now a hotel. Rowton Houses was a chain of hostels built in London, England, by the Victorian philanthropist Lord Rowton to provide decent accommodation for working men in place of the squalid lodging houses of the time. George Orwell, in his 1933 book Down and Out in Paris and London, wrote about ...

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