The White Swan Inn, in San Francisco, is such a hotel. It has the shabbiness of the self assured, but not an untidiness from ...

Plans have been filed to restore a 100-year-old building in the centre of town to its ‘original glory’. Heritage award ...

The effect can be found in many an East End pub, but here it's a genuine touch of shabbiness, and not a decorative choice. (That said, the mahogany bar itself is not the original.) A recent refurb ...

The Russian peasantry lived in abysmal poverty and shabbiness. Empress Catherine wanted however to believe that everything was for the best under her enlightened government. Potemkin was alleged to ...