Darling Hotel, Edinburgh

[snowyw]

I have just found that one of my lot lived in the Darling Hotel Edinburgh.  I am having difficulty finding out about this place.
Either it has gone, or it has had a change of name.  Any help would be appreciated.

[miriamkinga]

Is this it?

http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_PCV_A/0_post_card_views_inglis_alexander_darlings_regent_hotel.htm

best wishes

Maria 

[snowyw]

I think it must be.  Thanks.
A temperance hotel - indeed!!

I wonder what happened to it?

[tidybooks]

Hi snowy,

Have a look at the link I googled, seems to be the Darlings Regent Hotel, at Waterloo Street, right in the centre of Edinburgh, almost across from Register House, the GRO.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/0sw5/

I was never in the Darlings Regent Hotel, but had many a meal in the St Andrews Temperance Hotel, a sister hotel.

Tom

[snowyw]

I've now googled Waterloo Place street view.  Seems the building is stilll there (although I cannot make out which one it is).  But there is no longer a hotel.
All I can say is my ancestor must have been pretty wealthy to be a resident there. 

[snowyw]

Ah!  Worked it out.  How sad - a bit of it is now a newsagents and the rest was 'To Let' when the street view was done. 

[Hibee]

I used to work in an office opposite this hotel in the early 1970s.  It was a regular venue for lunch, on the first floor.  At that time, Temperance it was not.

Hibee

[snowyw]

I used to work in an office opposite this hotel in the early 1970s.  It was a regular venue for lunch, on the first floor.  At that time, Temperance it was not.

Hibee

Do you know why it closed down?  It seems such a pity.

[Hibee]

Sorry - I left for London in 1973.  Perhaps it was through loss of my custom?

Hibee