Balmoral Hotel

Portobello

Balmoral Hotel, Portobello

1934

Thank you to Ken Gordon, Daviot, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland for allowing me to reproduce this photograph of the Balmoral Hotel, Portobello.

Ken wrote:

"My Granny and Grandpa bought the Balmoral Hotel some time in the 1930s.

My Grandpa was a watchmaker in Lasswade but with the opening of Woolworth’s in Edinburgh and the sale of costume jewellery available for 3d or 6d his business disappeared overnight.  He therefore sold up and bought the Balmoral.

This photo shows my Granny in the garden with an unknown girl holding a dog on the doorstep.  The photo is dated July 1934."

Here is another photo of the hotel, this one taken four years later and also sent to me by Ken.

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