Burgh Island Hotel

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Coordinates: 50°16′47.06″N 3°53′52.94″W / 50.2797389°N 3.8980389°W / 50.2797389; -3.8980389
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Burgh Island Hotel
The Burgh Island Hotel in 2009
Burgh Island Hotel is located in Devon
Burgh Island Hotel
General information
LocationBurgh Island, Devon
Coordinates50°16′47.06″N 3°53′52.94″W / 50.2797389°N 3.8980389°W / 50.2797389; -3.8980389
Opening1929
Design and construction
Architect(s)Matthew Dawson
DeveloperArchibald Nettlefold
Other information
Number of rooms25
Website
Official website

The Burgh Island Hotel is a hotel on Burgh Island, Devon in England.

History

In the 1890s, the

listed building[2]

During World War II, the hotel was used as a recovery centre for wounded RAF personnel. The top two floors of the hotel were damaged by a bomb during the conflict. Despite being repaired, it suffered a period of post war decline after being converted to self-catering apartment accommodation. The hotel was restored during the early 1990s by Tony and Beatrice Porter.[3]

Notable visitors

Burgh Island Hotel in 2005

Burgh Island Hotel is linked to the crime novelist Agatha Christie, as it inspired the settings for both And Then There Were None and the Hercule Poirot mystery Evil Under the Sun.[4][5]

D-Day invasion.[8]

Transport

The sea tractor is used to ferry visitors to the hotel during high tide

The island is approximately 250 metres (270

sea tractor, which is operated by the hotel, transports passengers back and forth. At the end of World War 2 a DUKW "duck" amphibious vehicle was used until the sea tractor came in 1955.[citation needed] There is a tract of hard sand which is the better way. The current, third generation tractor dates from 1969. The vehicle drives across the beach with its wheels underwater on the sandy bottom while its driver and passengers sit on a platform high above. Power from a Fordson tractor engine is relayed to the wheels via hydraulic motors
. In 2011, it cost £2 per person.

Media

The 2001 TV adaptation of Agatha Christie's Evil Under the Sun used the island as a filming location. Several scenes from the BBC’s 1987 dramatisation of Christie’s story

Nemesis were filmed in the hotel. In 1994 "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", an episode of the television series Lovejoy, was set and filmed on the island. The island was the location for GMTV's Inch-loss Island slimming feature in 2008, as it was for the original series in 2001. The climactic scene of the 1965 British film Catch Us If You Can (featuring The Dave Clark Five) takes place at the island.[9]
It was also used as a setting for an episode of Dixon of Dock Green in the late 60s.

References

  1. ^ Porter, Tony: The Great White Palace, Doubleday 2002
  2. ^ a b "BURGH ISLAND HOTEL, Bigbury - 1108101 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  3. ^ Porter, Tony. The Great White Palace, Doubleday 2002
  4. ^ "Steeped in history and stories". Burgh Island. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
  5. ^ "Burgh Island - Visit Plymouth". www.visitplymouth.co.uk. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
  6. ^ "Burgh Island". The Classic Guide. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
  7. ^ Smith, Colleen (26 February 2019). "Iconic sea tractor still carrying the rich and famous on its 50th anniversary". DevonLive. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
  8. ^ a b Porter 2002
  9. ^ http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/569284/index.html British Film Institute Online, accessed 9 Sept 2009

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