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Hotels

Acorn Commercial Hotel, Birmingham
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Advert for Old Bush Hotel, Dudley
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Advert for Regent Hotel, Leamington
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Advert for Stanley’s Family and Commercial Hotel
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Advert for The White Hart Hotel, Birmingham
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Advert for Woolpack Hotel, Family and Commercial Inn, Warwick
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Advertisement: Charles Radenhurst, New Royal Hotel, New Street, Birmingham
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Arundel Brush Works, Sheffield
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Bland’s Brunswick Hotel, Sheffield
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Commercial Hotel, Sheffield
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Davy Brothers, Engineers and Millwrights, Park Iron Works, Sheffield
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Dingley’s Commercial Hotel, Moor Street, Birmingham
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English Hotel Guide
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Family, Commercial and Private Boarding House, London
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Frank Clayton, King’s Arms Hotel, Sheffield
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H.H. Giles, Saracen’s Head Hotel and Commercial Tavern, Bristol
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Knapp’s Commercial Boarding House, Birmingham
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L. Baldwin, Warwick Arms Hotel, Warwick
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Leamington Spa Post-Office and Temperance Commercial Hotel
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Mabbatt’s Commercial Boarding House, Coventry
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Mabbatt’s Commercial Boarding House, Coventry
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Maypole Commercial Hotel and Posting House, Nottingham
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Procter’s Swan Hotel, Bristol
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Russian Military Visitors
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Sarah Woodhead, King’s Head Hotel, Sheffield
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T.S. & R.M. Morris, Black Swan Hotel, Sheffield
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The Crown Hotel, Worcester
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The George Commercial and Family Hotel, Hull
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Thomas Foreman, Swan Commercial & Family Hotel, Birmingham
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