Inns [ Residences & Lodgings ]
… type of establishment stood in the town centre, both architecturally and metaphorically; it was close to the town hall, market hall, church, and bank, and it catered for a local elite (Maudlin 8, 9). It offered a range of good food and … of what a stay in an old English establishment was like. It can be difficult to detect if a building that today is marketed as a centuries-old ‘inn’ actually served as such an institution in the past. Truly old inns that can be traced … that still retains much of its historical eighteenth- and nineteenth-century architectural structure, which it uses to market its present-day facilities. 13 The building fabric of the famous Angel Inn at Islington, the model for Hogarth's …
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