Shanghai’s Metropole Hotel & Hamilton House Remembered

I recently contributed a small piece to the Visualising China blog on Sir Victor Sassoon’s Metropole Hotel in Shanghai (the one constructed in the 1930s on Kiangse Road (Jiangxi Road), rather than the older, decidedly more notorious, Metropole Hotel that stood on the Bubbling Well Road by the racecourse and was long gone by then. The Metropole, scarily about to get “Refurbished” (and China Rhymers will know why that should fear into their hearts) is adjacent to Hamilton House and I do note some of the varied businesses that rented office space there over the years – here then are some ads for those businesses….