Truro Court Hotel

Latest 1962

East Cliff

Ramsgate

Above photo, 1959, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Above notepaper 1957.

Not a lot known about this one at present.

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.

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.

LICENSEE LIST

MARCH William 1897-98+

If anyone should have any further information, or indeed any pictures or photographs of the above licensed premises, please email:-

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