Rooms are large and very complete, with luxurious bathrooms, and many have private terraces, gardens or whirlpool baths.

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By the early 1990s it was the UK's fourth largest manufacturer, making batteries, typewriters, bricks, HP sauce and Jacuzzi whirlpool baths after a riot of acquisitions in both the UK and the United States.

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