Greengarth Hall hostel continued to function throughout the war, but below capacity after the construction of ROF Drigg was completed at the end of 1941.
Near ROF Bootle, Wellbank Hall hostel, for up to 500 (presumably mainly construction) workers, was erected between Hycemoor and Bootle, and the 1945 electoral register shows about 50 houses in Bootle additional to those in the 1939 register.
Stay Hartington Hall youth hostel (family rooms from £35) is a 17th-century manor with wood panels and open fires, on the edge of pretty Hartington village in the south of the park.
Halls have hostel overtones, but the hotel was recently upgraded and has a good coffeehouse next door.
Regimental badges line the hostel's entrance hall.
Once upon a time, Halle Pajol was an old warehouse for the national railway; today, it's home to shops, a greenhouse, a library, a concert hall, and the Yves Robert hostel.
Stratford-upon-Avon: rooms £29, beds £15 The first youth hostel in Britain opened at Pennant Hall, near Llanrwst, North Wales, in December 1930 – and closed the following year due to sewage contamination, writes Rachel Dixon.
They move to the big city, where they share flats, rooming-houses, hostels or halls together, in twos and threes and fours.
We were assigned tasks by the hostel staff to clean loos and halls, which was pretty grim.
Perfect silence is to be maintained in the hostel premises including rooms, bathrooms, dining halls, corridors, common areas etc. Use of abusive, vulgar and unparliamentarily [sic] language against the hostel/mess staff is strictly forbidden.
It now houses an exhibition hall, tourist office, retail and enterprise units and a hostel.
