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The Colonnade Hotel
The hotel started life as two private Victorian residences in 1865 before being turned into a boarding school in 1880. In 1886, it became the Warrington Lodge Medical and Surgery Home for Ladies.The mathematician Alan Turing was born here in 1912. In 1935 the hospital was converted into the Hotel. To Honour Alan Turing, One of our Junior suite renamed to "Alan Turing Suite" Sigmund Freud stayed at the hotel during the summer of 1938 when he was renovating his house in Hampstead. To honour his stay the hotel renamed the best suite the "Sigmund Freud suite".