The Visitors' Book
A postcard posted on the 7th June 1959. The card reads...
"Saturday
"Thank you for your letter June - this as you will realise is the hotel & my room is marked. The weather has been awful yesterday & to-day! Very windy & rainy. A most perculiar couple have arrived, the wife is French & he is very queer!! Asks questions all the time & talks baby-talk to his wife & to-day he sat outside in his dressing-gown 'cos he hasn't brought his coat. Asked for his bedroom to be perfumed & his wife said the toilet was too low! We all avoid him now. The food is lovely here - an Austrian chef who comes from London but is doing this for a holiday as there are only 30 people - he's used to 100 odd.
"Much love, Barbara"
"Thank you for your letter June - this as you will realise is the hotel & my room is marked. The weather has been awful yesterday & to-day! Very windy & rainy. A most perculiar couple have arrived, the wife is French & he is very queer!! Asks questions all the time & talks baby-talk to his wife & to-day he sat outside in his dressing-gown 'cos he hasn't brought his coat. Asked for his bedroom to be perfumed & his wife said the toilet was too low! We all avoid him now. The food is lovely here - an Austrian chef who comes from London but is doing this for a holiday as there are only 30 people - he's used to 100 odd.
"Much love, Barbara"
"In 1965 Amanda Mosedale won the raffle at the Anglesey Show, the prize being a champion bull, or, alternatively, £100. She took the cash.
"She decided, or was persuaded, to celebrate by taking us to the Ravenspoint Hotel for dinner that evening. There was Amanda, Jane Stothert, David Marsden and myself.
"It was a celebration so the only appropriate drink to accompany the meal was champagne, which was ordered, chilled and served, and enjoyed by us all. We had a lovely meal, and Amanda cheerfully stumped up when the bill came.
"I was twelve and I think the oldest of us was thirteen.
"And when Amanda's mother found out, she went wild - David and I were suitably reprimanded and Amanda was reimbursed."
Alastair Thompson
"She decided, or was persuaded, to celebrate by taking us to the Ravenspoint Hotel for dinner that evening. There was Amanda, Jane Stothert, David Marsden and myself.
"It was a celebration so the only appropriate drink to accompany the meal was champagne, which was ordered, chilled and served, and enjoyed by us all. We had a lovely meal, and Amanda cheerfully stumped up when the bill came.
"I was twelve and I think the oldest of us was thirteen.
"And when Amanda's mother found out, she went wild - David and I were suitably reprimanded and Amanda was reimbursed."
Alastair Thompson
"My grandparents, Harry and Ivy Fletcher, stayed in room 4 (I think) every August, until about 1958 when they built the first new house to be built within the original grounds (Lenton Lodge, now owned by my sister Gina Withinshaw).
"Room 4 in the hotel was considered to be the second-best room; the best room was always occupied in August by Frank Arkle and his wife.
"Our family stayed occasionally in the main hotel but usually in "The Cottage", now Innisfree.
"The gallery photos bring back such memories, especially table tennis in the "loggia", as it was always called, which became the forerunner of the Burgee Club."
David Clarke
"Room 4 in the hotel was considered to be the second-best room; the best room was always occupied in August by Frank Arkle and his wife.
"Our family stayed occasionally in the main hotel but usually in "The Cottage", now Innisfree.
"The gallery photos bring back such memories, especially table tennis in the "loggia", as it was always called, which became the forerunner of the Burgee Club."
David Clarke