Douglas bay hotel menu
Description: Douglas Bay Hotel ephemera.
2] Specimen menus booklet with details of meals through whole week. 15.2 x 6 cm. Both wrinkled, salvaged from water damaged reception after fire.
Opened in 1894, the Douglas Bay Hotel was the first hotel on the isle of Man to have electric lights, with the power supplied by the tramway's generator. During the Second World War, the hotel was used for training members of War Office "Y" Group to intercept and transcribe coded German radio signals. This data was sent off the Island and was decoded by one of the captured "Enigma" machines. After the war the hotel resumed business, finally closing and being demolished in 1988. During the demolition process, a serious fire broke out and the building was gutted. The site was later redeveloped.
Object name: menu
Collection: Social History Collection
ID Number: 1988-0587/2