The Hotel Metropole seen from the south-east, with people in the foreground seated around the bandstand on The Leas

Date:
Aug 1915
Location:
Hotel Metropole, Metropole Road East, Folkestone, Leas, Shepway, Kent
Reference:
BL23222
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

The Hotel Metropole stands in the Leas, which at the time this photograph was taken, was the most fashionable part of town. The image was commissioned by Gordon Hotels Limited, owners of a number of luxury hotels in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods.

Content

This is part of the Series: HBL01/01 Series Of Photographic Negatives And Prints; within the Collection: HBL01 The Bedford Lemere Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Lemere, Henry Bedford: Bedford Lemere And Company

Keywords

Early 20th Century Bandstand, Victorian Hotel, Leisure And Recreation, Seaside, People