Royale Hotel
A quick pic of (early!) work in progress on the next building that I owe to St Ruth, along with a rough mock-up.
The plan is to try to follow the 'Pendon cottage' style of construction (well, sort of) - the key point being to cut the external walls from a single piece of card (0.7mm in this case) to avoid any joins. External corners will be formed (I hope) by creating a 'V' cut behind the corner and removing most of the thickness of the card... well, it worked for a PW hut but this is a bit bigger.
Here's a photo the real thing taken in 2006. It is not a hotel now - it has been converted into flats.
I have a number of photos showing the hotel in earlier times but they all share a common problem - they are taken from the level of the railway, so the retaining wall hides most of the ground floor. Right now I have no idea what the ground floor looked like when the building was a hotel. I do know that there were a lot of changes in this area - for example 1970s photos show a glazed sun deck (now removed) at first floor level over the entrance area but 1940s photos prove that this was a later addition. Unless I can get better information I will need to assume that the conversion to flats has basically restored the original appearance of the ground floor. This is certainly partly true, but I doubt whether the truth is quite so simple. Any help would be appreciated.
Ironically, I was stood opposite the hotel in the early 1980s and took a couple of photos, but my camera was pointed towards the trains and of course I took zero notice of the buildings behind me.
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