Holt Fleet, Wharf Hotel c.1935
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Holt Fleet in the 1950s was popular and unspoilt; today it is cluttered with caravans. Trippers could take lunch or afternoon tea at the Holt Fleet or the Warfe hotels, and perhaps make a visit to nearby Holt Castle, a 19th-century battlemented country house incorporating parts of a 14th-century fortress.
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A Selection of Memories from Holt Fleet
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. Here are some from Holt Fleet
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My mother now 85 years old worked in the 'Casle' when it was a girls school, she was about 15, at the time, and like many of her generation had to go into 'service', and leave home. She made friends with the Taylor family who lived in Holt Fleet, I have memories visitng them in their cottage as a young boy, still in school, back home in South Wales. Many years late Dad & Mum took my daughter and I to see the castle, now I believe a private residence, converted to flats
In 1997 we purchased a wooden bungalow near Holt Fleet Lock. We would like to hear any memories anyone may have about residents along the river. There are 9 wooden bungalows in all, we are at the third one. Today we had an unexpected visitor from a lady who owned it years ago and we let her go without really getting any info, HELP!!!
In 1997 we purchased a wooden bungalow near Holt Fleet Lock. We would be interested in any memories about the wooden shacks and their occupants - we have the third bungalow past the kissing gate.
In 1954 my father and mother took over the Holt Fleet Hotel when I was 9 years old. The photographs on this site brings back memories of the two years that I spent as a child there. Steamers from Worcester would moor at the landing stage and passengers would disembark for afternoon tea in the grandly named ballroom. The pictures of the hotel shown on this site are of the original earlier building which was ...see more
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