Bournemouth , The Royal Bath Hotel and Bath Road - geograph

Frontage of the Royal Bath Hotel, Bournemouth

The Royal Bath Hotel is a building in

Bournemouth Bournemouth () is a coastal resort town in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council area of Dorset, England. At the 2011 census, the town had a population of 183,491, making it the largest town in Dorset. It is situated on the Southern ...

Dorset Dorset ( ; archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the unitary authority areas of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset (unitary authority), Dors ...

. It is regarded to be the towns most famous hotel. Since 1974, the hotel has been a

Grade II listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

History

George Tapps-Gervis built the hotel in 1838. The hotel opened on Queen Victoria's coronation day in June 1838, becoming the first hotel in Bournemouth. The 1878 extension was designed by

Christopher Crabb Creeke Christopher Crabb Creeke (11 March 1820 – 22 May 1886) was an architect and surveyor who was largely responsible for shaping the early development of Bournemouth. Early life Christopher Crabb Creeke was born on 11 March 1820, in Cambrid ...

. The hotel was formerly owned by Mayor of Bournemouth

Merton Russell-Cotes Sir Merton Russell-Cotes (Wolverhampton 8 May 1835 – 27 January 1921 Bournemouth) was Mayor of Bournemouth, England, 1894–95. During his Mayoralty, Meyrick Park, two free libraries, and the first two schools of art in the borough ...

. During

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

an elderly grandmother was accidentally scalded to death in a bathtub. In 2014 there was a robbery at the hotel. The hotel hosted a Coastal

Comic Con A comic book convention or comic-con is an event with a primary focus on comic books and comic book culture, in which comic book fans gather to meet creators, experts, and each other. Commonly, comic conventions are multi-day events hosted at con ...

in 2019.

References

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