Top hotels today are expected to make available the latest in communication technology to their guests – and it was no different when the Midland Grand was open. Alexander Graham Bell’s historic first transmission of clear speech by telephone was made in 1876, just three years after the hotel opened. The Exchange is where the hotel’s telephone auto exchange was installed as soon as the technology gained widespread use.
Today, that tradition continues as the room, in it's new guise, host occasions from corporate lunch for 30 or a boardroom for 28.
The Billiard room, was dedicated to the hugely popular game among the upper class in the Victorian era, now, the room is perfect as a pre-function venue.