A London landmark in its own right, with a history stretching back to the Edwardian era, our hotel sees heritage and elegance with a contemporary twist. In an enviable, iconic location with breathtaking park views, our intimate hotel oozes boutique charm, from our personalised service to the unique character embedded in the building itself. At the Hilton London Hyde Park you’ll feel special, in our intimate hotel reserved for a select few. Hilton London Hyde Park is much more than a place to stay. It’s a place to experience the city in ways that will inspire and surprise you. Hilton London Hyde Park – Boutique Edwardian Charm

1. Boutique Edwardian Charm
A short journey to our proud history
Hilton London Hyde Park

2. BAYSWATER, a suburb of London, and a chapelry in Paddington parish and Marylebone borough, The suburb adjoins Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, and
the Great Western railway, 3e miles W of St. Paul's; and has a.post-office under London W, and a r. station. It was called originally Baynard's water; and
it took the first part of its name from Baynard, an associate of William the Conqueror, who held it of Westminster abbey,-and the second part from
copious springs which long supplied the greater part of the metropolis with water.
Bayard's Watering Place, first recorded in 1380, as where the stream later called the Bayswater rivulet or Westbourne passed under the Uxbridge road.
The name presumably denoted a place where horses were refreshed, either from the stream itself or from a spring such as the one in Conduit field
which from 1439 supplied the City with water. There were several variations of the name, Bayswatering being common in the 18th century, although the
form Bayswater occurred as early as 1659.
In 1720, the lands of the Dean and Chapter are described to be the occupation of Alexander Bond, of Bear's Watering, in the same parish of Paddington.
It may therefore fairly be concluded that this portion of ground, always remarkable for its springs of excellent water, once supplied water to Baynard, his
household, or his cattle; that the memory of his name was preserved in the neighbourhood for six centuries; and that his watering-place now takes the
abbreviated name Bayswater.
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Bayswater Road Origin
CATTLE TROUGH TODAY THE BAYSWATER CONDUIT IN 1750

3. Bayswater and Lancaster Gate were first developed as residential suburbs of London in the early nineteenth century. The Bayswater southern end
(Bayswater Road) was already a long-established route across the countryside, and a road roughly following the present Queensway can be seen on early
maps running north from Bayswater Road across fields under the name of Black Lion Lane.
It was subsequently renamed Queen's Road in honour of Queen Victoria, who had been born at nearby Kensington Palace: a name, however, which
somewhat lacked distinctiveness, for this reason the present name of Queensway was eventually substituted.
QUEENS ROAD KENSINGTON PALACE - QUEENS ROAD PALACE GARDENS
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Name of Queens Road / Queensway

4. Queensway is a London Underground station on the Central line, just inside the boundary of the City of Westminster with the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea. It is at the junction of Queensway and Bayswater Road, and is opposite the north-west corner of Kensington Gardens.
It opened on 30 July 1900, as Queen's Road, and was renamed on 1 September 1946. The building is an unusual survivor of the buildings designed for
the Central London Railway by Harry Bell Measures, with a flat roof so that commercial development could take place above – in this case, a hotel.
QUEENS ROAD STATION - 1903 QUEEND ROAD STATION ENTRANCE HALL 1903
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Queensway Tube Station

5. The River Westbourne is a small river in London, England, which flowed from Whitestone Pond on Hampstead Heath down through Hyde Park to Sloane
Square and then into the River Thames at Chelsea. Now in common with several urbanised streams its catchment basin contributes to a network of
surface water drainage channels and underneath its route lies a sewer.
The waters of the Westbourne or Bayswater were originally pure and in 1437 and 1439 conduits were laid to carry water from the Westbourne into the
City of London, for drinking. In the nineteenth century, however, the water became filthy and impure by its use as a sewer, and the rise of the water
closet as the prevailing form of sanitation.
When Belgravia, Chelsea and Paddington were developed, it became necessary to drive the river Westbourne underground in order to build over it. The
river was therefore directed into pipes in the early part of the nineteenth century, work which was completed in the 1850s. Since then, the Westbourne
has been one of the lost rivers of London, running underground in a pipe.
The pipe can still be seen running above the platform of Sloane Square tube station. It is located just below the ceiling towards the end of the platforms
closest to the exits. The pipe is the original one constructed in the nineteenth century. Although the station was badly bombed during the Battle of
Britain in November 1940, the old iron pipe was not damaged.
The river was originally called the Kilburn (Cye Bourne — royal stream, 'Bourne' being an Anglo-Saxon word for 'river') but has been known, at different
times and in different places, as Kelebourne, Kilburn, Bayswater, Bayswater River, Bayswater Rivulet, Serpentine River, The Bourne, Westburn Brook, the
Ranelagh River, and the Ranelagh Sewer. It is of similar size to the Fleet.
River Westbourne Today River Westbourne Today
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The lost river of London / River Westbourne

6. EASTBOUND PLATFORM IN 1900 SAME PLATFORM TODAY
Queensway Tube station has 126 steps (19 flat, 107 spiral) to access from
ticket hall to platform areas.
[The station sign here incorrectly states that there are 123 steps]
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Queensway Station

7. Only a stone’s throw from the hotel, the original statue of Peter Pan, commissioned by J.M.Barrie, was erected by George Frampton on May 1st 1912 in
Kensington Gardens. Barrie, who not only failed to get permission to place it in Kensington Gardens, insisted that the statue be erected in the middle of
the night to give the children of London the illusion that the sculpture had appeared by magic.
Peter Pan is a character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie. A free spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows
up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the mystical island of Neverland as the leader of the Lost Boys, interacting with
fairies, pirates, mermaids, Native American Indians, and occasionally ordinary children from the world outside Neverland.
J. M. Barrie first used Peter Pan as a character in a section of The Little White Bird (1902), an adult novel where he appears as a seven-day-old baby in
the chapter entitled Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Following the success of the 1904 play, Barrie's publishers, Hodder and Stoughton, extracted
chapters 13–18 of The Little White Bird and republished them in 1906 under the title Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.
J.M. Barrie created his character based on his older brother, David, who died in an ice-skating accident the day before his 14th birthday. His mother and
brother thought of him as forever a boy. The "boy who wouldn't grow up" character has been described as a variety of ages.
Cover of 1915 edition of J. M. Barrie's novel, first published in 1911, illustrated by F. D. Bedford[1]
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Peter Pan Statue

8. Arms of Edward of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prince of Wales, the
first "Coburgian" to become King of the United Kingdom and
Ireland as Edward VII in 1901
Queen Mary and King George V
The House of Windsor is the royal house of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. The dynasty is of German paternal descent and
was originally a branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, itself derived from the House of Wettin, which succeeded the House of Hanover as
monarchs in the British Empire following the death of Queen Victoria, wife of Albert, Prince Consort. The houses of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Windsor
have provided five British monarchs to date, including four kings and the present queen, Elizabeth II.
House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (German: Haus Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha) is a German dynasty, the line of the Saxon House of Wettin that ruled the
Ernestine duchies including the duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Founded by Ernest Anton, the sixth duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, it is the royal house of several European monarchies, and branches currently reign in
Belgium through the descendants of Leopold I, and in the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms through the descendants of Prince
Albert.
Due to anti-German sentiment in the United Kingdom during World War I, George V changed the name of his branch from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to
Windsor in 1917. The same happened in 1920 in Belgium, where it was changed to "van België" (Dutch) or "de Belgique" (French).
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Origin of Coburg

9. Queensway tube station on the central line opened in 1900 as Queens Road and was renamed in 1946.
Designed by D. Joseph, who built the superstructures of several Underground stations, it consisted of the Coburg Court Hotel, with three cupolas, over
shops and Queensway station.
Steeped in history, the Coburg Court Hotel opened in 1907 with 150 rooms equipped with basin and sink in each rooms and communal bathrooms on
each floor. A grade II listed building, this red terracotta Edwardian townhouse is now Hilton London Hyde Park, and continues to be a quintessential
London landmark.
THE COBURG COURT HOTEL - 1920 THE COBURG COURT HOTEL 1916
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London’s Quintessential Landmark

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The Coburg Court Hotel Brochure - 1950

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The Coburg Court Hotel Brochure - 1950

12. We draw inspiration from the Coburg Court Hotel Manager, Mr Goring, who believed that “personal service and good food should be supplemented,
rather than controlled, by mechanical means.”
Hotel later changed its management company and the name to the Coburg Hotel in the early 1960s. The hotel goes through a full refurbishment with
total 125 rooms with individual bathrooms.
THE COBURG HOTEL – 1960’s THE COBURG HOTEL - 1960’s
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The Coburg Hotel in 1960’s

13. Silk handkerchief marked Coburg Hotel , Coronation 1953
The Coburg Hotel Luggage Tag
The Coburg Hotel Memorabilia
The Coburg Hotel Key Ring
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Memorable Souvenirs

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The Coburg Hotel Brochure in 1956

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The Coburg Hotel Brochure in 1956

16. Hotel had 5 Meeting Rooms at the time:
 Queensway Suite
 Park Room
 Myddleton Room
 Carrington Room
 Cyndicate Room
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The Coburg Hotel Brochure in 1956

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The Coburg Hotel Brochure in 1956

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The Coburg Hotel Brochure in 1956

19. STAKIS, the hotels and casinos group has bought the Coburg Hotel in Bayswater, London for pounds 9.5m in March 1994 form Resort Hotels Leisure
Group.
Stakis Hotels was a hotel company in the United Kingdom led by Sir Reo Stakis, headquartered in Glasgow. The company was sold to Ladbrokes - who
renamed it Hilton in 2000 for £1.2 billion.
Following the merger, many of the Stakis top personnel were retained by Hilton and took some of the senior positions within the company including Sir
David Michels the then CEO of Stakis, who went on to become Chief Executive of Hilton Group PLC.
HOTEL LOBBY IN 1996 HOTEL UPPER LOBBY IN 1996
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From Coburg to Stakis and Hilton

20. ROOM #220 IN 1996 ROOM #220 in 1996
VIEW FROM PALACE GARDENS
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Hotel in 1996

21. The Coburg Hotel was used as a filming location in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1971). The Coburg Hotel was an inspired choice for a luxurious city hotel
during the filming of Frenzy. Even years ago, this hotel was the place to be when you wanted something special, and Alfred Hitchcock took advantage of
the hotel’s cachet when he was filming the movie Frenzy.
Richard Blaney and Babs Milligan check into the Coburg as "Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Wilde". Filming took place at the hotel during September 1971.
The interiors of the hotel were mostly recreated at Pinewood Studios, except for the policemen's point-of-view shot showing the fire escape, which was
filmed by assistant director Colin M. Brewer from a fifth floor room.
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Alfred Hitchcock & Frenzy Movie - 1971

22. In the film, we meet Richard Blaney (Jon Finch with a rather curious moustache), an unlucky soul who just lost his job. He goes to see his ex-wife Brenda
(Barbara Leigh-Hunt) who is a successful marriage broker at her office, and has an argument that is overheard by her secretary, Miss Barling (Jean
Marsh).
Brenda slips some money into Blaney’s jacket pocket to tide him over, and they make plans to meet later. When Blaney discovers the money, he tries to
see Brenda again, but her office is closed. What Blaney doesn’t know is that poor Brenda lies dead inside, raped and murdered by a London serial killer.
With the sudden windfall, he decides to take his barmaid girlfriend Babs (Anna Massey) to a fine hotel, namely The Hyde Park Hilton. Blaney soon
discovers that he is the prime suspect in the murder of his ex-wife, and the chase is on.
The audience knows Blaney is not to blame for the atrocities, but in typical Hitchcock fashion we are led through the process of mistaken identity and
complex storytelling that is the hallmark of many of the films produced by this great director.
This is Hitchcock’s most brutal movie; the vicious rape and murder of Brenda packs a distressing emotional wallop, even to the more jaded viewers of
today.
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Alfred Hitchcock & Frenzy Movie - 1971

23. Famous Visitors
Loreena McKennitt - Grammy Award Winner
The famous actress and singer Marlene Dietrich
stayed at Dome Suite for 2 weeks whilst filming in
London
Scenes from movie ‘Frenzy’ were filmed here in 1971
and he has stayed at Dome suite

24. A new chapter; where classic meets contemporary
Hilton London Hyde Park fully completes its £5.4 million refurbishment in June 2016. The work included a full revamp of meeting space, common
areas, all guest rooms, increasing the number of rooms the hotel has to offer as well as extensive restaurant expansion.
All 132 bedrooms have been transformed into contemporary spaces with classic twist, keeping the in line with the rich history of the Grade II listed
Edwardian building to cover the needs of the modern traveller. The plan also involved adding a new room type for families to reflect the rising demand
in the area from the continuing increase of guests coming to visit London for leisure, looking for more space and comfort. The four new rooms are built
so they can be accessed via a private door on a floor of their own and can be hired exclusively for larger groups, giving guests the comfort,
personalisation and flexibility they need.

25. Elegantly designed with a classic twist,
Keeping the modern traveller in mind
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Standard Guest Room King Deluxe Room with View
Double Double Guest Room Queen Guest Room

26. Elegant, relaxed dining, all day;
simple ingredients exquisitely prepared
Aubaine Hyde Park Breakfast Aubaine Hyde Park Restaurant
Aubaine Bar LoungeAubaine Hyde Park Patisserie & Boulangerie

27. The entire team is thrilled to be welcoming our guests into our completely
renovated charming hotel. We have always listened to our loyal guests and
what they loved about staying with us and we learned that Hilton London
Hyde Park is the London visitor’s first choice because of its iconic location,
breath-taking views of Britain’s most famous park and the history which,
stretching back to the Edwardian era.
To enforce that and meet the high expectations of the modern traveller, we
delivered an intimate hotel which oozes boutique charm and elegance,
keeping the modern traveller in mind, giving them the technology, flexibility,
personalisation and convenience of their stay that they need.
New Look, New Feel, New Story and same Extra-Ordinary Service