Carlton Hotel 1914

[Dieter1865]

Does the Carlton Hotel of 1914 still exist under a different name?

I've looked at the National Archives and don't see any collections there.

My interest is employee records from 1914 should they still exist.  Thank you.

[PaulineJ]

Whereabouts in the county would the hotel have been?

[Dieter1865]

Sugar, should have added it's the Edinburgh Carlton Hotel I'm searching for!  Sorry for omission.

[Forfarian]

I remember the Carlton Hotel. It was on the east side of North Bridge, immediately south of the bridge over Waverley Station. I think it was a temperance hotel. It was in the same block as a large department store whose name escapes me, but I think was Patrick something. I remember shopping there is the late 1960s and I still have a dress I bought there in 1968-ish. The buildings are still there - on the left in http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/428427. The department store is long gone and the hotel now seems to be the Hilton Carlton.   

I would be absolutely astonished if any staff records have survived from over 100 years ago.

[Dieter1865]

I remember the Carlton Hotel. It was on the east side of North Bridge, immediately south of the bridge over Waverley Station. I think it was a temperance hotel. It was in the same block as a large department store whose name escapes me, but I think was Patrick something. I remember shopping there is the late 1960s and I still have a dress I bought there in 1968-ish. The buildings are still there - on the left in http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/428427. The department store is long gone and the hotel now seems to be the Hilton Carlton.   

I would be absolutely astonished if any staff records have survived from over 100 years ago.

Thanks Forfarian, I've contacted the Hilton, but they hold nothing.

I like your shopping recollections.  The buildings are very grand.

I note from this old PO directory 1911/12 its address at the time was 1 North Bridge, the Hilton currently is No. 19.

I might have more luck looking at police records.  I'm researching a German waiter employed there, but sent to the POW camp on the Isle of Man later in 1914.  The International Red Cross record revealed his residence as the Carlton Hotel before he was interred.

[dowdstree]

The shop was Patrick Thomson's Forfarian.

I remember it well too from the 1950's. Mum took me there to have my hair cut and at Christmas to see Santa  They had large wooden rocking horses to play on whilst you were waiting. I think I have a photo somewhere of me sitting on Santa's knee

Happy memories.

Dorrie

[Forfarian]

Thanks, Dorrie. I thought it was something ....son's.

[Forfarian]

I note from this old PO directory 1911/12 its address at the time was 1 North Bridge, the Hilton currently is No. 19.

The entrance to the hotel was a door at street level but set back from the street right at the end of the bridge, and I think from there it was all upstairs. The Hilton's main door is a bit further up the street, about where the door into Patrick Thomson's was. I don't know for certain that the Hilton still occupies the rooms that used to be the Carlton, but it seems likely.