Interview with Mrs Elsie Wegener about working as a cook for the Rigby family at the Savoy Hotel, Central Promenade, Douglas, 1945-1988
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Date(s): 20 September 1999
Creator(s): Manx Heritage Foundation
Scope & Content: Elsie Margaret Wegener talks to John Beckerson about her life working as a cook for the Rigby family at the Savoy Hotel, Central Promenade, Douglas from 1945-1988. She talks about hotel trade life; Misses Widdison/Keeling and Mrs Palmer; concert parties and carnivals on Peel Promenade; Mrs Rigby (Savoy Hotel); kitchen operations and friendships among staff; employers Mary and Ronnie; regulations and building improvements; when living in England she would come to the Isle of Man to work from May to September; anecdote about fishing in Peel; her working week, the hotel layout and the hotel routines; anecdote about the Norton motorcycle team (Isle of Man Tourist Trophy (TT) races) and their unusual use of the kitchen; her mother’s work at a hotel owned by R.C. Cain; how Ronnie’s brother and his wife ran the Kenilworth and Manningham hotels; anecdotes about an incident at high tide and the problems of an old boiler; hotel inspectors and hotel reputations; the Fernleigh on Peel Promenade and anecdote about a Peel hotelier; and the hotel kitchen.
Administration / Biographical History: Elsie Margaret Wegener (born 28 November 1915). John Beckerson, researcher, born 1974.
Language: eng
Extent: 45 min. 54 sec.
Item name: cassette tape
Collection: Sound Archive
Level: ITEM
ID number: SA 2019-0001/8
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Subject tags : #UOSH, #UOSHTT, #UOSHHolidays