Grand Hotel Sheringham

Entry for 16 December 2007 Sheringham Grand Hotel

The Grand Hotel, Sheringham's finest Victorian hotel built in 1898, as part of new development following the arrival of the railway. It was demolished in 1974 and now has domestic housing on the site. The Grand Hotel dominated the sea front, an impressive looking building with two big domes, one at each corner at the front of the building.

Both these hotels had ground floor ball rooms where, from the nearby roads anyone interested would stand and watch the dancers, dancing the night away, all ladies arrayed in their long and beautiful dresses and the men in their dinner suits, white shirts and black bow ties. The Sheringham Hotel, it had turrats on two of its corners overlooking the 'Weybourne - Cromer Road' and to the golf links. It was built in 1889 at a cost of £10,000. It was better situated for the golf links rather than the sea. It claimed it was the largest hotel in Sheringham. The other hotels were The Dormy, The Burlington, The Bijou (now The Two Lifeboats) and Southlands. Beaumaris was not a hotel at that time it was a guesthouse and at the opposite side of the street to where it is now).

Quote from Sheringham web page

I found out what the hotel name was, in Sheringham, The Grand Hotel.
The above I found out about it, we spend a week at this hotel, fro9m the photo, can guess about what year it was, I also think it would be summer time, too cold in the winter then.

Sunday 16 December 2007 - 10:54PM (GMT)