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Open, healthy, scrupulously clean, with a liberal table: the Armfields and their temperance hotel
This year the Library was given a collection relating to the Armfield family who ran Armfield’s South Place Temperance Hotel near Finsbury Circus, London, during the second half of the 19th century. The collection includes a visitors’ book chronicling guests … Continue reading