A well known landmark of the High Street, This 1930s picture shows members of the Keight family,whose family were the proprietors. The Keight sisters were greatly in demand for their dance routines. After standing empty for some time, the building was demolished to be replaced by new shop premises.
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Just discovered that T.E Lawrence stayed here on the night of 28th February 1935 and wrote on the hotel’s headed notepaper to the publisher Peter Davis that he’d “started southward by road, meaning to call at Bourne to see Manning (Pilot Officer F.J. Manning) but today I turned eastward, instead, hearing that he was dead”. From the Talbot Hotel, Lawrence then cycled to RAF Cranwell to meet up with Rupert de la Bere. ( P. Marriott & Y. Argent, (1996) “The Last Days of T.E. Lawrence; A leaf in the Wind”, The Alpha Press).
Thanks for memory. Geoff