At the end of February, the Penn Club, a modest Quaker hotel in Central London, announced that it was closing its doors.
The board wrote that this was ‘especially poignant in this 101st year of existence and particularly given the money and effort invested in major upgrading over the last few years’.
However, the Club now says it has a new home at Royal Foundation of St Katharine, an unusual hotel in East London.
It’s not clear if this means more than there being a ‘Penn Club table’ in the dining room and some Penn Club artwork on the walls....