The hotel has been restored by Urban Splash with architects Union North, Northwest Regional Development Agency and Lancaster City Council.

Hill designed the hotel to complement the curve of the promenade, which allowed guests to view spectacular panoramas of the North West coast.

By June 1941 the station magazine, Morecambe Wings was reporting that the hospital had already treated 3700 patients, including 160 major operations and 400 minor ones.

Also reported was the average attendance at the massage clinic of 33 people daily, but this was declining due to the end of the football season.

[1] Union North were employed as architects by Urban Splash for the refurbishment and expansion of the hotel commencing in 2006.

It was temporarily reinstated for the filming of the Poirot episode in 1989, and a modified version was painted by the artist Jonquil Cook in 2013.

"[9] David Constantine's short story "Tea at the Midland" is set at the hotel, and begins with a debate about the work of Eric Gill.