There's
not a great deal of history about on t'internet for this place! It was
originally a three or possibly four star hotel, and it appears from a
thank you card we found on the premises that it was still functioning as
recently as 2006. During our exploration we found a commode chair in one
of the bedrooms and that rather suggests to me that perhaps the hotel was
geared up for pensioners and very elderly and infirm guests, but it's not
conclusive.
As can also be seen from this
lovely postcard on the right it has been
around for quite some time so what caused it's demise and subsequent slide
into dereliction we have no definitive answer, only a theory. My best
guess then would be that's it's all down to the huge change in the holiday
habits of the British public beginning in the early 1970s with the advent
of the cheap package holiday on the Costa del Sol et all - lets face it,
when you have the choice of a room in a hotel on a wet and windy Welsh
beach for a week, or basking in sun, blue sea and sangria for half the
money, then where are you going to go? For a time the diehards, especially
pensioners who are often very set in their ways and have been frequenting
the hotel for years, will have continued to go back, but eventually it
will have become prohibitively expensive to run and profit returns will
have begun to collapse exponentially, prices will have been hiked, and
finally a point will have been reached where it could no longer continue
without a huge change in direction.
And clearly that
was not forthcoming.
What is sad to see is that the
chavs and pykeys have moved in to the place in double quick time and
trashed and thieved there way around the building so comprehensively that
there won't be much left worth bothering with very soon. The floors are
precarious in the extreme and at times it's possible to see a drop before
you of three to four floors - quite unnerving as you can perhaps imagine.
A short distance just down the
road is a small college and it's associated accommodation block. The
college looks as though it is still in use, not so the accommodation
block. We were going to have a mooch around that too but I didn't fancy
the rather precarious climb just to get in to see what amounts to a few
halls and corridors and empty bedrooms!
All in all
then a very disappointing explore. But hey! You can't win 'em all!
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