#manado #manadocity #kotamanado #manadokota #hotel #hotels #apartment #apartments #flat #flats #condotel #condotels #skyscraper #skyscrapers #skyscrapper #skyscrappers #highrise #highrisebuilding #highrisebuildings #tallbuilding #tallbuildings #seaside #seasidehotel #seasidehotels
#whitby #seaside #yorkshire #history #yorkshirecoast #socialhistory #seasidehotels #ww1 #railwayhistory #eastcoast
#Day23 of #SeasideHotels #AdventCalendar
IT'S SNOWING IN 1970s WEYMOUTH!
The wonderful Spanish-modernist Riviera Hotel, Bowleaze Cove nr #Weymouth was built 1936/7 as an all-purpose destination hotel
[A @JohnHindeImages #postcard with a festive touch ;)]
#Dorset #seaside
#Day22 of #SeasideHotels #AdventCalendar
The Roundhouse Hotel #Bournemouth opened in 1969, and was a thoroughly modern and sophisticated affair.
Especially love the integral honeycomb concrete car park!
#seaside #Dorset #coast
#Brutalist #Brutalism
#Day21 of #SeasideHotels #AdventCalendar
More #ArtDeco fabulousness: the iconic Midland Hotel #Morecambe, 1933, with its Streamline Moderne design. The main curve followed the line of the coast, with large, sweeping seafacing balconies, Superb!
#Lancashire #Seaside #Coast
#Day20 of #SeasideHotels #AdventCalendar
#ArtDeo loveliness today, in the form of
Ocean Hotel #Saltdean. The epitome of modernity, it had an American Bar, 1st-class cuisine,
exercise, pool & sunbathing facilities, hairdressing salons and ballroom.
Now flats. #1930s #seaside
#Day19 of #SeasideHotels #AdventCalendar
A brooding sky is the perfect backdrop for this #postcard view of the Grand Hotel #Southwold
Built 1901 as part of the town's expansion, it was luxurious& modern incl central heating & electric lights!
#Suffolk #seaside #SeasideHistory
#Day18 of #SeasideHotels #AdventCalendar
Grand Hotel #Llandudno
Picturesque and high-class, when it opened in 1901 it was the largest hotel in Wales with 158 bedrooms. Would love to stay in a turret room...
#seaside #UKCoast #SeasideHistory
#Day17 of #SeasideHotels #AdventCalendar
#Torquay Hydro Hotel.
When is a hotel not a hotel? When it starts life as a house! Fancy des-res Villa Syracusa was later a convalescent home before its fancy hotel conversion. #Devon #seaside
#HouseHistory
#Day16 of #SeasideHotels #AdventCalendar
The lavishly luxurious Empire Hotel #Lowestoft (1900). Its life as a luxury hotel was sadly short-lived: WWI requisitioning, conversion to St Luke’s TB Hospital 1922-c1955. Demolished 1958 😢
#Suffolk #SeasideHistory #UKCoast
#Day15 of #SeasideHotels #AdventCalendar
Headland Hotel #Newquay #Cornwall. This fine and dandy Grade II listed hotel opened in 1900 and commands a prominent position overlooking Fistral Beach and Towan Head.
Quite an atmospheric #postcard image...
#SeasideHistory #UKCoast
#Day14 of #SeasideHotels #AdventCalendar
Delightful duo the gorgeous Grand (1864) & the mighty Metropole (1890) #Brighton. The latter's red brick & terracotta greatly contrasted with the Grand, & the predominantly Regency stucco #seafront architecture.
#seaside #PostCard
#Day13 of #SeasideHotels #AdventCalendar
Grand Hotel #Scarborough opened 1867 to great fanfare, pomp & ceremony. Designed by Cuthbert Brodrick 'master of the grandiose' this luxury hotel had all modcons& a grand design scheme befitting of a grand hotel
#SeasideHistory #Yorkshire
#Day12 of #SeasideHotels #AdventCalendar
Imperial Hotel #Blackpool (1867). French Renaissance & Baroque. Described as the ‘climax of Blackpool hôtelerie’ by Pevsner!
Imposing façade, stone dressings & wide entrance- characteristic of many Victorian grand hotels.
#SeasideHistory
#Day11 of #SeasideHotels #AdventCalendar
Imperial Hotel #Torquay. Opened in 1866, this luxury hotel had ensuite bedrooms and was so popular that it
was extended a few years later, in 1870.
What a location!
#SeasideHistory
#Devon #seaside #UKCoast
#Day10 of #SeasideHotels #AdventCalendar
Queen’s Hotel #Hastings, was completed in 1862 and had three guest entrances: a grand front entrance,
a covered side carriage entrance, and
one for families desiring privacy.
#Sussex #seaside #UKCoast
#Day9 of #SeasideHotels #AdventCalendar
Zetland Hotel #Saltburn-by-the-Sea, N #Yorkshire
One of the world’s earliest railway hotels, this imposing monumental building is perched on a prominent n dominant cliff-top position- it was part of an 1860s #seaside vision by Henry Pease.
#Day8 of #SeasideHotels #AdventCalendar
#WestwardHo! Hotel #Devon. An elegant new #seaside resort was developed 1860s at this then isolated place following the success of Charles Kingsley's novel Westward Ho! The imposing luxury Gothic hotel was the jewel in the crown.
#postcard
#Day7 of #SeasideHotels #AdventCalendar
St George's Hotel #Llandudno (1854).
Mid-late C19 was a golden age of ever grander #seaside hotels- a must-have for a successful resort to attract wealthy visitors. St G's was an impressive seafront addition to the newly laid out resort.
#Day6 of #SeasideHotels #AdventCalendar
Bath Hotel, Bournemouth (later Royal Bath Hotel). Planned exclusive resorts with purpose-built hotels sprang up elsewhere incl Sir William Tapp-Gervis' new 1830s genteel resort at #Bournemouth- Bath Hotel was one of 2.
#Dorset #Seaside
#Day5 of #SeasideHotels #AdventCalendar
St Leonards Hotel (later Royal Victoria) opened 1829 as the focal point of ‘Regents Park by the Sea’-an ambitious planned resort by James & Decimus Burton that became St Leonards-on-Sea.
(Pic: Hastings Museum & Art Gallery)
#Sussex #seaside
#Day4 of #SeasideHotels #AdventCalendar
Royal Exeter Hotel #Bournemouth Started life in 1812 as a holiday home for Lewis Tregonwell when he & wife Henrietta took a fancy to the area.
Much extended/ altered- spot the original house?
Pic:a playing card!
#Dorset #seaside #UKCoast
Royal Hotel #Plymouth (1819): the first luxury #UKCoast hotel. Part of an impressive complex with theatre & assembly rooms. Accommodation incl 5 ensuites & private dining & sitting rooms. Very fancy!
📸Llewellyn Jewitt V&A
#SeasideHotels #AdventCalendar #3December #seaside
#SeasideHotels #Advent #2December
Royal Pier Hotel #Ryde #IsleofWight: built shortly after the 1814 pier to accommodate the extra influx of passengers. Formed part of Pier St until demolition following a fatal 1930 bus crash.
(#Postcard c.1901)
#Seaside #history #CoastalHistory
Am awash with non-seaside work projects, so thought a return to #SeasideHotels for a #history #Advent countdown would be nice.
Mitchener Hotel #Margate #Kent- attractions incl a fleet of bathing machines.
[1783 ad, Kentish Gazette; 1770 trading card @britishmuseum]
#UKCoast
Forthcoming talks on #HouseHistory, #HistoricHotels/ #SeasideHotels and a spot of #ArtDeco...and more in the pipeline! https://karenaverby.co.uk/talks-workshops-media/
What do sugar animals and Butlins have in common? 🤔
Why, they are mentioned in tonight's free online talk for @LlandudnoMuseum on the history of The Grand Hotel and St George's Hotel, #Llandudno, of course! See you at 7pm?
#HistoricHotel #SeasideHotels...
So yes #WinterIsHere ...if that's not pleasing, maybe a slice of summery #seaside action might help! My seasidey books @amberleybooks for example 😉 😁 www.amberley-books.com/community-karen-averby #beachhuts #seasidehotels #coast #summer #holidays #architecture...
