Interview with Hilary Guard about working in hotels
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Date(s): 14 October 1998
Scope & Content: Track 1: Hilary Guard talks to John Beckerson about visiting the Isle of Man for the first time; getting into the hotel business; meeting his wife; working in the Grasmere boarding house for 12 years; learning the hotel trade; bad behaviour in hotels; income; outgoings; the Doric hotel; the Douglas Hydro hotel; unruly guests; collecting payments; hotel restaurant and kitchens; other hoteliers' reactions; buying supplies; providing hot water for guests.
Track 2: Conversation continues about maintaining the hotel exterior; staff and dinner service.
Administration / Biographical History: Hilary Francis Guard was born 21 March 1913. John Beckerson, researcher, born 1974.
Language: English
Extent: 56 min. 57 sec.
Collection: Sound Archive
Level: ITEM
ID number: SA 2019-0001/6
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