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| references = }} The Midland Hotel is a Streamline Moderne building in Morecambe, Lancashire, England. It was built by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS), in 1933, to the designs of architect Oliver Hill, with sculpture by Eric Gill, and murals by Eric Ravilious (subsequently destroyed).〔Carter, Oliver (1990). ''An illustrated history of British Railway Hotels: 1838-1983''. St Michael's: Silver Link Publishing. ISBN 0-947971-36-X〕〔Simmons, Jack and Biddle, Gordon (1997). ''The Oxford Companion to British Railway History: From 1603 to the 1990s''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-211697-5.〕 It is a Grade II * listed building. The hotel has been restored by Urban Splash with architects Union North, Northwest Regional Development Agency and Lancaster City Council. == Construction == The Midland Hotel was built to replace two earlier hotels: the North Western Hotel built in 1848 by the "little" North Western Railway which had been renamed the ''Midland Hotel'' in 1871 when the Midland Railway took over the North Western Railway; and another hotel at Heysham, the ''Heysham Towers'', which was converted from a private house in 1896.〔〔 The Heysham Towers served railway steamer traffic from Heysham Harbour to Belfast; but it was not a success and was sold in 1919.〔 In 1932, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) bought land from Morecambe Corporation to build the 40-bedroom Midland Hotel replacing the old hotel. It opened in July 1933.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Midland Hotel, Morecambe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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