Falmouth hotel destroyed by fire

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-17897467

The g/f used to live in Falmouth years ago so the story caught my eye. Turns out she used to work at the very hotel in question for a short while.

The place looks well fucked...

*re-developers*

They've moved everyone to Green Lawns, which is nice. My sister got married there.

If I ever get married again, I'll get married at The Headland Hotel in Newquay, preferably during a storm.

The Headland's a great place, looks very Victorian Gothic from the outside. If they haven't yet filmed a murder mystery there, they should.

(Looks up the price of a room - ouch).

http://www.headlandhotelnewquay.co.uk/rooms.html

'Country House' was pretty shit but I'm not convinced he deserves to burn to death for it.

Roald Dahl's The Witches was filmed there.

Thanks for the info, good to hear it

i think there was a riot there when that was first built.

there's a fair few hotels of a similar design round the coast, all designed by the same bloke.

We stayed there a few years ago but we had one of the cheaper rooms with no view. It was still nice though. They had a very snobby French waiter.

I won't be going swimming there then.

Coxon hated that song. Can't say I blame him. All those stupid fucking trumpets.

Apparently it might have been caused by hot tar from the flat roof being mended.

I stayed just round the corner from there when my friend got married in Falmouth the other year. He used a different hotel though. Nice town, crap pubs though

A mate from London is thinking of living in Falmouth, I've always liked it - very attractive & has a nice vibe to it. Apparently it was a major port & one of the wealthiest towns back in the day (the mediaevil one). I don't recall there being many great pubs though either.

There's a pub that was pretty good a few years back when my ex was living there, at the top of the Jacobs Ladder steps. Can't remember the name of it.

When we go to Falmouth we usually drink in the Wetherspoons or one of the pubs along by the harbour, which I also can't remember the name of.

My sisters flat was at the top of those steps, don't remember the pub though.

I usually drink in The Grapes or Chain Locker

It's the Jacob's Ladder

Is he buying or renting? Renting is virtually impossible because all the rentals are overpriced and aimed at students. It's an expensive place to buy as well. I'd quite like to live there though.

I'm not sure I'd want to live there. Bit touristy for me, like St Ives. The Pavilions is a good place to see a band, though. Saw Gallows there a bit back and it was perfect for a band like that.

I had my first experience of that last week when I nipped down to Trago. It was heaving. Still, because it's so much bigger than st ives they tend to just stay in the town bits. The residential areas don't get it.

Students for most of the year and then, just when they fuck off, in come the tourists, but if I were to live in Cornwall it would probably be somewhere near Falmouth: good town beaches, decent music venues and far enough away from Penzance

I've just spent the day catching crabs in Flushing

Buying & he can afford loads.

Yeah, I agree - I like the place. It's attractive like St Ives. I think the Art College adds a bit to the culture.

Talking of Penzance, I've a brother who's looking at places for something like £50K! & reckons Penzance is the only solution. He wants to be able to get a train to London a lot.

£50k? In Penzance?? He might get a garage for that. If he wants to go to London a lot he'd be much better off further up the line.

What makes him think that houses in Penzance are cheap

e2a from 2010 - The town where house prices jumped 207%

thinking of places on the train routes, liskeard, bodmin, redruth are likely cheaper. doubt there is anywhere for as little as 50k though.

He's only looking for a studio & there are some around for less than that at the moment. There are also park houses round for that price. It looks a bit cheaper than Falmouth.

They're all inland though. Redruth is pretty depressing - kids looking glum with nout to do or doing nout? He likes Marizian end of Penzance & the coast bit generally (not many like Penzance bit though).

exactly, inland. therefore not desirable as holiday homes. therefore cheaper

still won't be anywhere near 50k to buy though.