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Title: COMPLETED: Hotel at 44 The Drive, Hove
Post by: PixieAnna on Sunday 01 December 19 17:15 GMT (UK)
My ancestor worked at this address as a Hotel Chambermaid in the 1930s, but I'm having trouble finding the name as it seems to have been rebuilt as Copthorne Court flats.
Can anyone enlighten me as to the history of the address and hopefully the name of the hotel please?

Many thanks,
Pixie
Title: Re: Hotel at 44 The Drive, Hove
Post by: keyboard86 on Sunday 01 December 19 18:57 GMT (UK)
What was the name of your ancestor, I can see a Robert W Hartley occ Retired Bank manager at that address in late 30"s, with domestic staff and other residents?
Keyboard86

 ;D Some seriously rich people appear to have lived in The Drive over the years!
Title: Re: Hotel at 44 The Drive, Hove
Post by: Jool on Sunday 01 December 19 19:27 GMT (UK)
A search of old newspapers for 44 The Drive, Hove brings up advertisements for the Hamilton Hotel in the 1940's.  Nothing for the 1930's though.
Title: Re: Hotel at 44 The Drive, Hove
Post by: maddys52 on Monday 02 December 19 01:33 GMT (UK)
Not much help I'm sorry, but there is this advertisement in 1937:

"LADY Staff required, new Hotel: cook, chambermaid, waitress; Aga and gas cookers, good wages. - Apply 44 The Drive, Hove."

The Times. (May 24, 1937)
Title: Re: Hotel at 44 The Drive, Hove
Post by: maddys52 on Monday 02 December 19 01:40 GMT (UK)
"HAMILTON HOTEL, HOVE. 44 The Drive. Ph. 441111. Most modern, airy and sunny. Opened last season. English and Continental cuisine. Moderate."

The Times. (May 20, 1938)
Title: Re: Hotel at 44 The Drive, Hove
Post by: barryd on Monday 02 December 19 02:21 GMT (UK)
I assume this it in 2019.


https://www.zoopla.co.uk/property/20/copthorne-court/44-the-drive/hove/bn3-3jd/2200578
Title: Re: Hotel at 44 The Drive, Hove
Post by: PixieAnna on Monday 02 December 19 14:15 GMT (UK)
Thank you very much Keyboard, Jool, Barry and Maddys for your replies.

The Times ads were a really great find, Maddy - thank you  :)

So it was a hotel, just as I suspected!!! 8)

Pixie
Title: Re: COMPLETED: Hotel at 44 The Drive, Hove
Post by: maddys52 on Monday 02 December 19 20:48 GMT (UK)
You're welcome Pixie.
The last advertisement I can see for the Hotel is in September 1953, so I assume it was demolished and replaced with the Copthorne Court building some time after (it looks like a late 50s/60s building). I've been looking for any old photographs of the Hamilton Hotel, but with no luck.  :)
Title: Re: COMPLETED: Hotel at 44 The Drive, Hove
Post by: PixieAnna on Tuesday 03 December 19 11:52 GMT (UK)
That's very kind of you, Maddy. I've since found out from RCs on another thread that they might have only worked there for less than a year. By the date of the 1939 Register they'd moved to Letchworth.
 :)