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Site of The City Hotel, 1989	Picture © Jo Turner
The City Hotel was situated on Cornhill. This pub was present by 1871, and was previously known as The City Wine & Spirits Stores). It closed in 1971 and was subsequently demolished.
Source: John Overton
Built by Pelham Construction 1974 for Halifax Building Society. Architects were Cecil Howitt and Partners. The building was extended to the rear 1994 with architects Purcell Miller Tritton & Partners. The previous building here built in or before 1867 was a wine and spirit merchants and then shown on the 1887 Town Plan as ‘City Stores (P.H.)’ (possibly from 1886? when there were additions to the building – architect Henry Barnes for J H Ellis). It was converted into the City Hotel about 1920. In the 1940s it was in the Hewitt Brothers Ltd pub list with a number of planning applications by them 1940-1948. It was demolished Sep-Oct 1972.
Steve Turner (February 2022)
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