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Holiday Inn London – Kensington Forum, opened July 2, 1973 as the London Penta Hotel. The company was established in 1971 as Penta Hotels. It was named Penta because it was a joint venture of five airlines, [7] Lufthansa, Swissair, Alitalia, BOAC and BEA. [8]
The tallest partly hotel building is the 309.6 m (1,016 ft) Shard, London. The Beetham Tower, Manchester is 169 m (554 ft) tall of which half, up to and including the 23rd floor, is a hotel. 10 Holloway Circus , Birmingham is 130 m (430 ft) tall; the lower 19 floors are occupied by a hotel.
Kensington photographed by scientist Sir Norman Lockyer in 1909 from a helium balloon. (This is a mirrored image of Kensington) The manor of Kensington, in the county of Middlesex, was one of several hundred granted by King William the Conqueror (1066–1089) to Geoffrey de Montbray (or Mowbray), Bishop of Coutances in Normandy, one of his inner circle of advisors and one of the wealthiest men ...
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The hotel was preceded by the former Royal Palace Hotel, a Victorian-era hotel completed in 1893 designed by British architect, Basil Champneys. [2] As part of the war effort in the 1900s, The Royal Palace was taken over and used as the headquarters for the Woman's Royal Voluntary Service.
Kensington Market opened on Kensington High Street in 1967. It was a three story building of contemporary fashion. It closed in 2000. Kensington High Street's future as a shopping street has been threatened by the large Westfield London, which opened a short distance away in Shepherd's Bush in late 2008.
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