Ground floor of the Royal Exeter Hotel
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Ground floor of the Royal Exeter Hotel by Jonathan Hutchins as part of the Geograph project.
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Ground floor of the Royal Exeter Hotel
Image: © Jonathan Hutchins Taken: 10 Mar 2018
The portrait on the far wall under the stairs is of Captain Lewis Tregonwell, generally regarded as the founder of Bournemouth. The core of this hotel is the original villa he constructed in 1811-12 on what was then a desolate heath. Grade II listed. This is taken in the opposite direction from https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5705196 For a 2022 view of the same area of the ground floor see Image
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Image Location
Latitude
50.717755
Longitude
-1.878837