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Hello Angela
The old soldier on your link is NOT of the KOYLI — but the York and Lancaster regiment.
See his badges –??
http://skegness.wordpress.com/tag/war-and-military/koyli/
Great story — but you have the wrong soldier
Les ex KOYLI/2LI
Thanks for pointing that out, Les.
If we look at the first page of the original diary
http://gillottfamilyhistory.fotopic.net/p11972132.html
four times does the soldier describe his position as ‘koyli’.
Could it be that Ernest and his peers were working ‘alongside’ the koylis in India?
This has indeed become a mystery.
I humbly confess I know little about the military, but have extracted the info from original documents.
Hello Angela, my grandmother worked as a maid at a hotel or guest house in the late 1930s in Skegness, called the flamstead. I can find no record of it. Her younger sister also worked as a chambermaid at a skegness hotel around the same time. I have a post card of the Rock gardens and there are hotels in the background. She has marked a hotel a couple up from one that looks as if it is called Belvedere or something similar. I would be grateful if you could cast any light on either. Indeed it may be that they are one and the same hotel.
Yours mike maughan
Okay Mike, I will have a look in holiday guides around that period and report back tomorrow.
Good news, Mike - I have found the Flamstead in an old holiday brochure, along with a picture of the hotel just searching for the other hotel you mentioned and will email them over to you tomorrow. Please give me a nudge if it slips my mind.
Angela
Thank you very much Angela, i am looking forward to seeing them. i have half a dozen letters from a Mr or Mrs Snaith to my grandmother in the late 30s. I can not tell whether Mr(s) Snaith is the owner or manager. My grandmother seems to have worked quite a few summer seasons there as well as a few christmases. She seemed to have had a nice time there, which makes me glad as she generally had quite a hard life.
Mike
Hi Mike, an old advert and pic of the Flamstead is winging its way over to you as we speak, from the 1948 Skegness Holiday Guide.
I’ve found a hotel called the Belvedere in 1947, but its on Algitha Road, not on the seafront - would this be the one you’re looking for?
On my next trip to the Skegness Library, I’ll have a look in the 1930s brochures, as I have not got any from this period in my personel collection.
Meanwhile, have you looked at the 1958 holiday guide which I have put online in the Skegness Photo Gallery (link on right nav bar)?