Hi Josephine You are an endless source of information. You must spend most of your day researching it. Although I have found most of my Bristol Family (except baptisms for the Taylor's and their deaths) I remain a member as I learn so much about general social history from your posts. Keep up the good work. Warm regards Tony ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josephine Jeremiah" <jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com> To: <bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 1:47 PM Subject: [B&S] Royal Hotel, College Green, Bristol, prices in 1902 and 1937 (was Bristol Royal Marriott hotel) > On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:52:03 -0000, <Lcsearch3528@aol.com> wrote: > >> Thanks for the information about the hotel, very interesting. I would >> love to have stayed there in those days - not that we would have been >> able to afford it of course.....I would probably have been a scullery >> maid! > > I've been looking at the cost of staying at the Royal Hotel, College Green > in times past, which may be of interest to some of our list members. > > In 1902, B. & A. was from 4s. 6d. (I'm assuming B. & A. meant board and > accommodation, but perhaps someone has a better explanation.) Breakfast > was 3 shillings, while dinner (table d'hote) was 4s. 6d. > > In 1937, the minimum for bed and breakfast was 10s. 6d. at the Royal > Hotel, which had 180 bedrooms. > > At this time, the Grand Spa Hotel, Clifton charged the same minimum of > 10s. 6d. for bed and breakfast and this hotel had 70 bedrooms. > > Minimum bed and breakfast prices in other licensed hotels in Bristol in > 1937 ranged from 5s. 6d. to 9s. 6d and minimum bed and breakfast prices > in unlicensed hotels ranged from 5 shillings to 8s. 6d. > > -- > Josephine Jeremiah > www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:14:48 -0000, Tony Harrison <a.harrison@tesco.net> wrote: > You are an endless source of information. You must spend most of your day > researching it. Although I have found most of my Bristol Family (except > baptisms for the Taylor's and their deaths) I remain a member as I learn > so much about general social history from your posts. Keep up the good > work. Hi Tony, Thanks for your kind words. I like to find answers to the questions in my mind so can't resist a little looking up here and there:-) In the case of the hotel prices for the Royal Hotel, I just had to reach to the bookshelf behind me for books with Bristol hotel information, which were published in 1902 and 1937. However, I have other bookshelves with lots of novels and this year I promised myself that I would keep off the computer and read through them. I haven't yet read the novel Miss Ann Green of Clifton: A Romance of the Bristol Riots by E.W. Baker, which must go to near the top of the list for books to be read. (It has an 1828 map and black-and-white photographic illustrations and I've often looked at those.) At the beginning of January, our Edna thought it would be interesting to see how much I could refrain from using the computer. I gave in on the third day of January:-) Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com