2. Royal Hotel
Larkin's poem 'Friday Night in the Royal Station Hotel' shows its quieter times, with 'silence laid like carpet' and 'all the salesmen […] gone back to Leeds'.

The hotel as Larkin knew it suffered a major fire five years after his death and was re-opened after extensive refurbishment in September 1993. The more recent refurbishment of the lounge respects Larkin's description of the 'high clusters of lights' and the chairs 'coloured differently.'

Postcode: HU1 3UF

Geocodes:

GPS (WGS84) Co-ordinates
Latitude: 53° 44.6415
Longitude: 0° 20.7006

OS Co-ordinates
Easting: 509245
Northing: 428785
<<< Back