HOTEL’S QUAINT HISTORY
Fort Anne Hotel, Douglas Head, near Blackpool, a house with an interesting history, has been sold by public auction to a Blackpool syndicate. The hotel was built on Irish soil on Douglas Head as the result of a wager with George IV when he was Regent. The Regent and a man named Whaley (says the Wine Trade Review) quarrelled over a lady. Whaley won, but the Regent made a condition that the lady must live on Irish soil. Whaley could not return to Ireland, and in order to fulfil the conditions of the. wager brought soil from Ireland, on which Fort Anne was built. Later the house was occupied by Sir William Hilary, founder of the National Lifeboat Institution.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22776, 11 January 1936, Page 9
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122HOTEL’S QUAINT HISTORY Otago Daily Times, Issue 22776, 11 January 1936, Page 9
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