The story behind the Beaumont Hotel’s steel man

A posh Mayfair hotel is locally famous for the metal man sculpture on its classical style frontage, but there’s a lot more to the hotel and the sculpture than might seem at first glance.The building is a shade under 100 years old, having been constructed in 1925-26 and opened in 1926, but not as a hotel for humans, but for cars. It’s a car park.
Yes, really – that grand frontage was the front of a car park, with a petrol station on the ground floor where the hotel’s main