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Kingswinford, Summerhill House Hotel c.1965
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Kingswinford has become a place of characterless roads, estate houses and shopping precincts, but it retains a scattering of the elegant houses built by 18th-century ironmasters and glassworks owners. Summerhill House, built in 1756, is one of these, an imposing Georgian mansion with a grand facade. It became a hotel many years ago.

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Memories of Kingswinford, Summerhill House Hotel c1965

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of Kingswinford, Summerhill House Hotel c.1965

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My friend came to live at the Summerhill House hotel with her parents, her name was Carol Sanders. It was a very up market hotel, silver service and well run. The Hotel catered for wedding receptions and had a lovely spiral wooden staircase at the entrance. The staircase was later knocked down when alterations were made. We kept our horses in the stables where the Harvester restaurant is now and had dogs and all ...see more
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