In May the hotel was sold to The Cornwall Hotel Collection, which already owns The Greenbank in Falmouth and The Alverton in Truro. With a legacy spanning more than a century of running award-winning hospitality businesses, the new owners said they were "excited to embrace The Falmouth Hotel into the family, and back under local ownership after almost 20 years." Announcing the purchase, they vowed to begin a "new chapter of revitalisation and investment" into the hotel.
As restoration of the hotel begins, The Cornwall Hotel Collection issued a callout for old photos, videos and literature as they start piecing together the history of the Victorian hotel. Beaming newlyweds running along the grass. Image: Sarah Hubbard (Image: Falmouth Hotel/supplied) "Fondest memories caught on film, photographs framed in sepia nostalgia, postcards and letters shared with sweethearts from afar – we want to see it all," they said – and the general public did not disappoint.
Beautiful photographs, both in colour and in black and white, have been shared with the hotel, many of which have been published on its Facebook page and which the Packet now shares with the hotel's permission. Afternoon tea - perhaps between a grandmother and two granddaughters? (Image: Falmouth Hotel/supplied) They include an image of a beaming pair of newlyweds running along the grass, a well-dressed..
. Emma Ferguson.
