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Driscoll House A TV lounge, 2006. Driscoll House is a building at 172 New Kent Road, London, England, which has operated as a hostel since 1913.The building is on the south side of New Kent Road, between the Bricklayers Arms flyover and Elephant and Castle station, and is a well-detailed example of the pre-World War I institutional Baroque style.
Historically, flophouses, or British "doss-houses", have been used for overnight lodging by those who needed the lowest-cost alternative to staying with others, shelters, or sleeping outside.
Communal dining area of a Common lodging-house in New York, circa 1910 Children within a Common lodging-house, Christmas 1910. Urban reformer Jacob Riis was not only an advocate for improving the condition of people living in cheap lodging houses; he had lived in them as a young man, an experience he described in his slum memoir How the Other Half Lives (1890).
This article is intended to list all youth hostels operated by the Youth Hostels Association (England & Wales) (YHA), either presently or formerly, and also independent hostels. The list is split into sections: hostels currently operated by YHA, independent hostels, and others, where others include former hostels previously operated by, or as ...
Queen's Gate House, still commonly known by its previous name of Baden-Powell House, is a conference centre in South Kensington, London.It was built as a tribute to Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting, and has served as the headquarters for The Scout Association, as a hostel providing modern and affordable lodging for Scouts, Guides, their families and the general public staying in ...
Duong Duc Toan, the Nana Backpacker Hostel’s manager, where many of the tourists allegedly fell ill, told reporters that his staff had handed out more than 100 free shots to guests on Tuesday ...