The Midland

The Midland is where Charles Rolls met Henry Royce in 1904 — the meeting that created Rolls-Royce, which makes the hotel's claim to British industrial history as strong as its Edwardian baroque architecture. Built by the Midland Railway Company in 1903, the hotel's ornate terracotta façade and grand public rooms were designed to impress Manchester's cotton magnates and visiting industrialists. 312 rooms, the French restaurant by Adam Reid, and a position on Peter Street that puts you at the heart of a city whose reinvention over the past two decades has been one of the great urban stories in Britain.