This is a photo of the Hotel Metropole in Leeds, around the corner fro the railway station, taken this afternoon.The hotel was the subject of a fascinating Yorkshire Evening Post cover article.
Apparently in April 1961 a Russian defector was debriefed in Room 31 of the hotel.
He described the exact means by which the Soviet State could be paralysed for 90 days by a couple of high-explosive bombs placed in spitoons close to the Russian War Ministry.
He told his story to the CIA and MI6, in that room.
In 1980, my friends and I would round off an evening by drinking in the Piano Lounge of the Hotel Metropole.
Oddly enough, the pianist often played 'As Time Goes By'. Do you think he knew something?
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