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A library hotel

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1mart1n
Jul 10, 2016, 7:10 am

This looks rather splendid - you can stay the night in Britain's only Prime Ministerial library:
https://www.gladstoneslibrary.org/

Article about it here:
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/you-can-stay-night-welsh-114...

2lilithcat
Jul 10, 2016, 9:10 am

>1 mart1n:

Whoa! I'm not a Brit, but that looks like worth a trip to Wales in and of itself!

3Cynfelyn
Jul 10, 2016, 2:27 pm

Hmm. It seems to have moved on a bit since I stayed there on an archives field trip thirty years ago. It was called St Deiniol's then - I hadn't even realised that it had changed its name - and it was as much, or more, a place of retreat as a research library. The food was good but plain. I don't remember the bedrooms, dormatories perhaps, but they can't have been anything like those on the library's website; those I would have remembered.

The description of the library on LT Local comes closer to what I remember:
http://www.librarything.com/venue/53266/Gladstones-Library-formerly-St-Deiniols-...

4abbottthomas
Jul 10, 2016, 4:45 pm

Some Other LTers have visited. Look here:
https://www.librarything.com/topic/168484#4713017
Post #88 et seq.

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