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1962: Last Days of the Cavendish Hotel | Tonight | BBC Archive
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8:53Now Playing"It was once the most famous hotel in the world. Inside now it's stripped and bare - awaiting only the demolition men"
Michael Harrison reports from the now empty Cavendish Hotel in St James, London. The grand old hotel is being demolished, Michael walks through the rooms and talks about the hotel's glory days, when Rosa Lewis was the owner and some of the world's most famous people frequented the "club".
Clip taken from Tonight, originally broadcast on BBC Television, 19 November, 1962.
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