Great Western Hotel Newquay 1909

[youngtug]

It is the Great Western Hotel, not the Great Western Railway Hotel, wether it was a railway hotel or not I do not know.

[youngtug]

This is interesting; http://thecloudandshowershow.com/2014/08/06/the-cornish-hotels-company-and-the-atlantic-hotel/

We seem to have diverted the course of the thread, sorry.

[wyndham]

Youngtug.  Thanks for the very interesting history of the Atlantic Hotel.  It seems I was barking up the wrong tree!!  Apologies to jagoman for diverting the course of his enquiry.

[Jagoman]

Hi Youngtug

No worries found it interesting

Jagoman

[Asta springer]

Robbthomas -  your mother and mine were half sisters (Jill Anetta Hooper). I have some photos and super 8 film somewhere of CV riding his horses etc . Sheila's half brother Jeremy who had the hotel after CV still lives near Truro.

[Jagoman]

Hi Robbthomas,

Great to hear from you again.  I am sorry but C.V. Hooper was my 1st Cousin 1x removed. Violet Anniita Bennett Cyril's Mother would have been a Sister to my Grandmother.

Jagoman

[4hooper]

My husband is related to the Hooper family connected to the Great Western Hotel:
Jeremy J. Hooper (Father)
Cyril Varcoe Hooper (Grandfather)
John Varcoe Hooper (Great Grandfather)
It's wonderful to see the photos you have posted and the information on the Great Western Hotel.
I'm currently researching his side of the family and would welcome any other photos and to connect with relatives! I've attached a 'cleaned-up' version of Cyril's photo if anyone is interested.

[Jagoman]

Hi 4hooper,

Many thanks for the photo restoration it has come out well. All the photos I have of Cyril I have posted on this thread.  I have recently found his service record on Ancestry which has details of him being wounded in WW1 and his journey through the hospital system and X-rays of his knee.

Jagoman

[Andrew Tarr]

It is the Great Western Hotel, not the Great Western Railway Hotel, whether it was a railway hotel or not I do not know.

In late Victorian times many large favourably-placed railway companies built branch lines to the coast for the sole purpose of establishing a resort, with a hotel of course.  Weston, Skegness, Ilfracombe, Cromer and Morecambe are familiar examples.  Many of the hotels took the name of the railway company, usually without the word Railway.  As the line to Newquay was part of the GWR its title would not be surprising.