The Hotel

A Memory of Kingswinford.

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 sorts of animals there. We had a great time. Carol and I went into the hotel for our meals and could choose almost anything that Chef had made, it was lovely. Later they knocked the stables down and extended the hotel and made a large function room with a stage. Opposite the hotel the fields known as the triangle is where we used to turn out the horses to graze and our friends Angela, Jose and Virginia lived in the large house on the corner. We spend days riding our horses and having fun. The farm and Summercourt House were later demolished and houses built. Now Kingswinford is more of a town rather than a village.