Prince of Wales Hotel,Scarborough

[lilleywood]

thanks for your reply
I have three silk postcads sent to my Grandmother from her uncle Bill from 'somewhere in france'. I havn't found out yet who uncle bill was, but must  have been posted there during WW1.
One of the cards is addressed to Miss N Blake (my grabdmother) Staff, Pince of Wales Hotel, Scarboro, England. Another of the cards is dated 1919.
My mother told me that my G'mother used to work in the kitchens there.
If my G'mother worked there in 1919 it must have continued as a hotel after the German attack in 1914?

[AMCass]

Yes it continued as a hotel into the 1970's.  I have a photograph of the male kitchen staff taken in the kitchen of the Prince of Wales.  There is a calendar on the wall but we can't make out the date.  I will scan it in and post it for you.  I am not sure if my grandfather went back to the Prince of Wales after the war, I do know he went to the West Riding to work there for a while and he died in 1926.

[AMCass]

Hope you can see this picture.  My grandfather is second from the right on the middle row.  Looking at him I think this was taken in the very early 1900's.  Check out the shoes of the man sitting on the floor left - we think we wear pointed toes!

[lilleywood]

If you think the shoes are bad, what about the swimsuits?
Picture taken in scarborough in 1919.
My Grandmother Nellie is second from left aged 24.

[TopDawg]

Hi, just found this while looking at some thing else.  It appears a relative of mine married some one called Wally Freeman who managed the Hotel I think in the late 40's early 50's not sure my uncle remembers him and stayed there.
Do not know if any one knows of him?

[AMCass]

Sorry I'm afraid I don't know anything much about the hotel until it closed.  Scarborough library have quite a lot of information including the newspapers on microfilm.  If you contact them they may be able to tell you what they have got.  Their phone number is 0845 0349517 or email scarborough.library@northyorks.gov.uk.

[RAF557]

Have just come across this site and just by way of interest,I was billeted at The Prince of Wales Hotel during WW2.  The hotels along the front were turned over to the RAF and I was in #16 ITW for my initial pilot training.  I am 89 now but I recall as young lads of 18 we had to run up and down the zig-zag pathway down to the beach.  The beach was lined with barbed wire and landing-barge traps for most of the front.  Our spare time was spent swimming at the pool, walking in the beautiful countryside and we also had concerts and dances, - I believe at the Grand - or was it the Royal.  Such wonderful memories.
I was told that the P of W was turned into a Senior Citizen Home.

[AMCass]

It was interesting to read your message, it is always good to add to knowledge of what happened in your local town.  I thought that you might like to know that the Prince of Wales Hotel is still standing but it is now private luxury flats.  I'm not sure about it being an old people's home but I do know that in the 1970's they had a very good Italian restaurant and night club there on the lower floors.  Doubt if it was elderly people living above it then!