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The Common Room / Re: Great Western Hotel Newquay 1909
« on: Friday 02 January 15 18:41 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Jagoman,

Many thanks for the photos. Mum will be very interested to see them - unfortunately she is not online so will have to post them to her.

Not really a fair swap but please find attached Cyril on horseback around the 1930s.

Can I ask what your connection is to the Hoopers or Great Western Hotel?

Many thanks
robbthomas

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The Common Room / Re: Great Western Hotel Newquay 1909
« on: Friday 02 January 15 18:14 GMT (UK)  »
Hi ThrelfallYorky,

I checked on your particular point with my mum as she lived at the Great Western in the 1920s/30s. To her knowledge, the Great Western was owned by Cyril's father and passed onto Cyril in due course. Not sure how it came into John Varcoe Hooper's hands in the first place so there may have been a Railway connection before this time due to its proximity to the railway station. However I always assumed it was named after the Beach that it looks over.

robbthomas

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The Common Room / Re: Great Western Hotel Newquay 1909
« on: Thursday 01 January 15 16:28 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Jagoman,

Yes, she passed away in Sept 1987 in Brighton. I would not recognise a photo of her father but her daughter (my mum) might. I would be interested in the photo of Cyril in WW1 uniform. We still have  a few family photos of him on horseback as he used to also run the stables at Trenance in Newquay.

robbthomas

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The Common Room / Re: Great Western Hotel Newquay 1909
« on: Wednesday 31 December 14 12:26 GMT (UK)  »
Cyril and Aileen divorced and Bo'sun went on to marry two more times. Their daughter, Sheila, (my mother) lives in the north of England. Aileen moved to Sussex after the divorce and never remarried.

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