The Midland Hotel (Burlington Hotel)

[richardinwales]

The Midland had its own water supply, a well IIRC, I wonder if its still used?

 

[Vivienne14]

Former hotel waiter Seaman Albert Hopkins awarded DSM

Viv.

Source: British Newspaper Archive

 

[Bethnal]

I am trying to find any records of workers around the time of 1927,
My late mother was
Place into a convent and later was put into care of a gentleman who was working at the Midland hotel,
I would suspect she worked in the Laundry dept
Thank you

 

[Vivienne14]

When this hotel was first built it would have had a much more open aspect on the Navigation Street side. (See drawing in post #30). That would explain the impressive features of the building and the large stone Midland Hotel sign still visible on that side today. Over time the street has become more enclosed but there are still tell-tale features of its former use as a key hotel entrance from New Street Station. Viv.

 

[mikejee]

Viv
That is how I remember it in the 1970s, so probably a bit after the old station was demolished

 

[Norah]

I am trying to find any information about The Midland Hotel prior to WWI. One of my wife's family married a man believed to have been German or of German origin. He worked at The Midland Hotel and was high up in a management or Head Chef position. He emigrated to Chicago or other US City prior to war breaking out in 1914.

If anyone has any information or knows where I might be able to look - please get in touch.

I couldn’t believe your above request. I too am looking for information regarding a Max Oswald Doring who was a clerk at the hotel prior to WW1. He was a POW Isle of Man no 37,000. He married a Helen Patterson Muirhead from Edinburgh who might also have worked in the hotel. They were the parents of my aunt Eva and her brother Paul Doring who went down with the Bismarck in 1941.
Both Max and Helen died in Hamburg in 1945. The only item Eva found in the rubble of their apartment was a brass ashtray of Burns Cottage.
Again any information regarding employees at the hotel, gratefully received.
Strangely Max does not appear in the 1911 census.

 

[John L]

I couldn’t believe your above request. I too am looking for information regarding a Max Oswald Doring who was a clerk at the hotel prior to WW1. He was a POW Isle of Man no 37,000. He married a Helen Patterson Muirhead from Edinburgh who might also have worked in the hotel. They were the parents of my aunt Eva and her brother Paul Doring who went down with the Bismarck in 1941.
Both Max and Helen died in Hamburg in 1945. The only item Eva found in the rubble of their apartment was a brass ashtray of Burns Cottage.
Again any information regarding employees at the hotel, gratefully received.
Strangely Max does not appear in the 1911 census.

As the census records people who were living/staying at an address on the census day itself, it may have been Max was elsewhere on the census day, if he was not recorded. Sorry, if I'm stating the obvious.

 

[Vivienne14]

A very full description of the Midland when it first opened. Adverts about its opening appeared in several newspapers/journals, including the Gentleman and The Hour. The hotel was described by Mr Clements as 'Economical'



Source: British Newspaper Archive

 

[Richard Dye]

A very full description of the Midland when it first opened. Adverts about its opening appeared in several newspapers/journals, including the Gentleman and The Hour. The hotel was described by Mr Clements as 'Economical'


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Source: British Newspaper Archive

Interesting comment : “Birmingham has very much improved in the style and character of its buildings” seems they got it right in 1874! I neve4 stayed at the“Midland” but just walking through you would understand what the article is saying.

 

[John L]

Interesting comment : “Birmingham has very much improved in the style and character of its buildings” seems they got it right in 1874! I neve4 stayed at the“Midland” but just walking through you would understand what the article is saying.

We spent our wedding night there Richard, just over a hundred years after it first opened. You could tell that it must have been the place to be back in the Victorian era, as it still was then in our opinion. A friend of mine worked there as a sous chef at the time and he kindly left a bottle of champagne in our room for us. Our room was very nice and still had the traditional feel about it, I doubt it had changed too greatly over the years, as seemed the case with the plush staircase along with the main public areas. It was a real treat to be a guest in a hotel that I had walked past so often and to see how the other half lived.

 

[Vivienne14]

This event was held at the Midland Hotel. The Buckland Club seems to be a group of culinary enthusiasts. Still going today.

Source: British Newspaper Archive