Thursday, January 07, 2010

Ephemera - The Spittal Hotel


A charming receipt from the 1960s here. The Spittal Hotel is a beautiful log cabin at the foot of the Cairngorm mountains on the A93 enroute to Glenshee and Braemar. The receipt is made out to one Mr Gorski, which ammusingly means something like 'mountaneous' in Polish. It is particularly charming to note pay that guests were expected to pay extra for baths, which Mr. Gorski failed to avail himself during the course of his four-day stay.

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[1]
THE SPITTAL OF GLENSHEE
HOTEL LTD. - GLENSHEE
8th Jan 1966
Received from
Mr Gorski
£13 . 7 . 0
Sig. S. McLeod

[1b]
2852
The sum of
£ s d
10%
£ 1 . 6 . 0

[2]
6156
THE SPITTAL HOTEL
Proprietor: THE SPITTAL OF GLENSHEE HOTEL LTD.
GLENSHEE, PERTHSHIRE
SKI-ING - FISHING - PONY-TREKKING
Mr Gorski

Jan 1965 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8
Brought forward - 3.15.- 7.10.- 11.5.-
Room & Breakfast
Board £ 3.15.0 £3.15.0 £3.15.0
Apartments
Room Service
Morning Tea
Baths
Breakfast
Luncheon
Afternoon Tea
High Tea
Dinner/Supper
Tea & Coffee 2.-
Beers, WInes, etc.
Laundry/Dry cleaning
Telephone
Garage Transport 2.0.0
Sundries
Pony Trekking
Ski Hire
Ski Instruction

Carried forward - £ 3.15 - 7.10.- 11.5.- 13.7.0
NEAREST STATION, COUPAR ANGUS

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Questions, question. Who was Mr. Gorski one wonders. Why one cup of tea in four days? Anyone know anything about the hotel at this time? Who worked there? Who was it run by?

1 comment:

Em said...

I like that you call not baithing for four days "charming".