Southend building, wotsit?

[maganru]

Just got word from a reliable source that it is going to be a hotel again. Can hardly wait! Hope to be there when it re-opens.

[Lonesome Cowboy]

Just got word from a reliable source that it is going to be a hotel again. Can hardly wait! Hope to be there when it re-opens.

Great news

[Ship called Dignity]

Rhetorical questions of course - as I know the answers - and that's why I asked the first question re 'the customers'. In essence, I was instigating a discussion around the potential of the building, that's all.

Chris,

I meant to post - that is what you did. Instigated discussion. Just people were asking questions back.

Heading for school but will get back to you on this one later. Hope you had a good visit.

[CaptainHaddock]

I returned to Campbeltown 22 years after my last visit and one of the reasons was to hopefully return and see the hotel. I remember staying there in the late 80s and absolutely loved the building. Good to see it hasn't been levelled but it did look a bit sad in its present condition. I do hope it's re-built by the owners even if its private accomodation.

[ChrisA]

Oh, that's a backwards step.

I thought the redevelopment it was moving along, new windows etc?

[andybdm]

Keil Hotel was built 1938-39 and designed by the architect John Austin Laird. It is quite a sight when you see it for the first time; probably because it is the last thing you expect to see when visiting Southend. I remember seeing it as a boy on a hot balmy summers evening in the 70's and imagining a ball there with it full of people and lit chandeliers, with the sound of music drifting down to the shore!! Oh the power of a childs imagination lol!

But it is an extremely intriguing and evocative sight indeed!

[petewick]

Was speaking to the owner back in April, he told
me that things were still ongoing but taking longer
than anticipated due to making the building wind and
watertight was a bigger job than initially planned.

[ayr41]

I was up their this week and there is a large mobile home on site and a lot of activity when we walked past, would be great to see the place buzzing again and good for the areas ecomony

[ayr41]

Photo taken last week, all now watertight apparently new windows reclaimed from somewhere in Cambletown.