Saunton, The Saunton Sands Hotel c.1955
Photo ref: S65026
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Memories of Saunton, the Saunton Sands Hotel c1955

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 Saunton, The Saunton Sands Hotel c.1955

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The hotel was used by the Duke of York's Military School which had been evacuated from Dover - on the cliff tops. Wooden huts were erected along the cliff in front and alongside the hotel to be used as classrooms - each with coke-operated stoves leading to outside chimneys. All doors were taken off the hotel rooms [to create space?]. Bunk beds were installed. The sands had been used for Commando training ...see more