The Palace
Had good fun with this one, can't decide if two 16-year-olds in shorts blagging the doorman was better than @Moose getting past the doorman in joggers but it was a laugh both times. Got up the first tower no problem and then ended up in the clocktower a month later with a group we met down a mine; got shat on by pigeons both times.
The Refuge Assurance Company occupied the building until 1987 and in 1996 it was converted to a hotel by Richard Newman. It is now the Palace Hotel, owned and operated by the Principal Hayley Group. The first phase of this Grade II listed red brick and terracotta building was designed for the Refuge Assurance Company by Alfred Waterhouse and was built between 1891 and 1895. It was extended in 1910 and included a 217-foot-high clocktower, before being further extended in 1932.
Had good fun with this one, can't decide if two 16-year-olds in shorts blagging the doorman was better than @Moose getting past the doorman in joggers but it was a laugh both times. Got up the first tower no problem and then ended up in the clocktower a month later with a group we met down a mine; got shat on by pigeons both times.
The Refuge Assurance Company occupied the building until 1987 and in 1996 it was converted to a hotel by Richard Newman. It is now the Palace Hotel, owned and operated by the Principal Hayley Group. The first phase of this Grade II listed red brick and terracotta building was designed for the Refuge Assurance Company by Alfred Waterhouse and was built between 1891 and 1895. It was extended in 1910 and included a 217-foot-high clocktower, before being further extended in 1932.
