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East Cliff
Ramsgate
Above photo, 1959, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above photo, date unknown. |
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Above photo, date unknown. |
Above notepaper 1957. |
I am informed that this was built in 1840 and demolished in 1962.
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From an email received, 2 June 2026.
"Truro Court Hotel" was formerly
known (at least up to 1901) as the "Truro House Hotel." Between at least
1897 and 1898 it was owned by William March, the father of the writer
Edgar J. March. Edgar J. March was born at the above hotel in 1897.
William March sold the hotel by 1900, and bought the "Kimberley
Hotel," Westgate-on-Sea, and the family owned the "Kimberley
Hotel" for some decades after that.
Edgar J. March did insert a lot of bits of gossip about his own
childhood and youth in his books, and although my daughter and I did
skip through most of the books finding information for the article, we
did not read the whole lot. So, who knows, there may still be material
in those books about the "Truro House Hotel" that we missed. I possess
all March's books except his Destroyers book.
The article and its citations currently comprise everything that I
know about Edgar J. March, his family, and the "Truro House Hotel." I
have not found any evidence that the family had descendants. William
March had one other son, who was killed in WWI in 1917. I have found no
evidence that Edgar J. March had children. So sadly there are probably
no living descendants who can help us with this history.
All the best.
Linda O'Carroll.
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East Kent Times, 9th March 1962.
WORKMEN UNCOVER A TUNNEL SMUGGLERS MAY HAVE USED.
During demolition of the Truro Court Hotel, East Cliff, Ramsgate, three
men working on the site uncovered an old tunnel which, they believe,
goes down to the cliff face.
David Ralph, Allan Bellis and Frank Bovington took an East Kent Times
and Broadstairs Mail reporter into the tunnel, which descends at an
acute angle to about 60ft below the surface of Ramsgate. Their journey
ended in a room roughly hewn in the chalk. Below that was barbed wire
and a brick wall.
Mr. Bellis said he believes the tunnel was used as an air raid shelter
by the RAF when they occupied the hotel in World War II. Before that it
could have been a smugglers’ entrance from the sea.
Although he has made several inquiries, Mr. Bellis can find no-one who
knows anything about the tunnels.
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LICENSEE LIST
MARCH William 1897-98+
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