Hello Londoners and London Enthusiasts,

Almost fifty years ago (!) my family traveled from Canada to the U.K. and spent a month traveling throughout England, Scotland and Wales.

We began and ended our journey in London at a hotel called the Thai Melon. I have so many vivid memories of that trip -- all of them positive.

Time has softened the edges and blurred the colours as well as fragmented and rearranged the timeline. Many of these memories have taken on an almost dream-like quailty, and it is only because of a travel diary which my parents forced me to keep (which of course I resented at the time but am very grateful for now) that I can be certain I hadn't imagined the entire event.

Now I'm an old dude with my own family. We will be staying in London for a week enroute to other destinations.

Obviously London has changed a great deal in the last fifty years, and I have no illusions about nor particular desire to try to retrace my steps with family in tow.

But I am very curious about a few blanks in my memory, particularly the hotel and neighborhood where it all began.

Google has yielded nothing. Obviously the Thai Melon is long gone and it wouldn't surprise me if the entire neighborhood had been gentrified beyond all recognition. Nonetheless, I remain curious and am hopeful that someone in this sub (or their grandparents heh) might have a clue.

tl;dr Has anyone heard of / know the former location of the mythical Thai Melon hotel?