Interview with John Clague mainly about his family and himself working as hoteliers of the Port Erin Hydro and Ramsey Hydro, 1937-1980
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Date(s): October 1998
Creator(s): Manx Heritage Foundation
Scope & Content: John Clague talks to John Beckerson about his family and himself working as hoteliers of the Port Erin Hydro and Ramsey Hydro. He talks about his childhood at the Port Erin Hydro hotel; the Ramsey Hydro hotel; Second World War internment and female internees; hotel trade during the Second World War; what distinguished their hotels from a boarding house; staff; bad weather; owning the Ramsey Hydro himself; the guests; decline of hotel trade and hotel finance.
Administration / Biographical History: John Henry Clague was born 7 November 1920. John Beckerson, researcher, born 1974.
Language: English
Extent: 38 min. 48 sec.
Item name: cassette tape
Collection: Sound Archive
Level: ITEM
ID number: SA 2019-0001/55
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Subject tags : #UOSH, #UOSHHolidays