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Title: Suggestions on how to locate hotel staff in 1960s London
Post by: floxxie on Friday 18 April 25 00:55 BST (UK)

Does anybody have any suggestions on where to find the names of kitchen staff who would have been working at the Kensington Palace Hotel, De Vere Street, Kensington, London in 1964/6, please? I am particularly interested in the chefs.

Title: Re: Suggestions on how to locate hotel staff in 1960s London
Post by: mckha489 on Friday 18 April 25 02:09 BST (UK)

Newspapers. For example

https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-share/b5e73f53-cb60-46a9-8d71-de4be26a4c70


https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-share/2ddec3e8-40b0-48c2-ab10-147929ece411

Title: Re: Suggestions on how to locate hotel staff in 1960s London
Post by: AntonyMMM on Friday 18 April 25 10:24 BST (UK)

Possibly electoral rolls ( staff may have "lived in"), but given the transitory nature of hotel work, and that many may not have qualified to be on the roll ( too young, or non UK), I think you will be very lucky to find much.

I was a police officer in that area in the 1980s and knew the Kensington Palace Hotel very well - it stood on the corner of De Vere Gardens and Kensington High St. Now gone sadly.

Title: Re: Suggestions on how to locate hotel staff in 1960s London
Post by: floxxie on Sunday 20 April 25 16:58 BST (UK)

Thank you both.

Would there be any Facebook groups or forums where people are likely to post about living/working in the area?