Trouville Hotel in Bournemouth
YOUR report of the sudden closure of the Trouville Hotel, which had hosted cultural breaks such as sketching holidays, raises questions about preserving Bournemouth’s heritage.
The existence of plans for a block of flats on the site indicates that the entire building could now be lost.
The Trouville on Priory Road incorporates a house called St Margaret’s which was home to the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s pioneer conductor Sir Dan Godfrey during the First World War.
He remained there until moving up the hill in 1922 to Rosstrevor, now part of the Collingwood Hotel, where fortunately there is a blue plaque.
Leigh Hatts
Stoke Wood Road,
Bournemouth
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