24 • The Sunday Times Magazine
DOWN AND
OUT AT
THE PRINCE
RUPERT
This historic
Shrewsbury
hotel took in
100 homeless
guests during
the pandemic.
Was this the
opportunity they
needed to get
off the streets
for good?
Christina Lamb
reports
One of the hotel’s
lockdown guests
was Simon Boden,
who had been
homeless on and
off for 40 years