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The hotel in 2014

The Clifton Hotel is a small, late Victorian hotel in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. The hotel stands on the North Bay cliff tops and was home to soldiers on home duty during both the First World War and Second World War. The location of the building offers commanding views of the North Sea.

Blue plaque to Wilfred Owen

During the First World War, the hotel was known as the Clarence Gardens Hotel and was home to Wilfred Owen, soldier and war poet, who wrote many of his early war poems while on service and the single occupant of the tower room.[1] A heritage trail blue plaque marks the site today.[2] The hotel is a short distance from Saint Mary's Church and the grave of Anne Brontë.

References

  1. ↑ "The pity of war and the poet who gave voice to it". The Yorkshire Post. 23 June 2015. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  2. ↑ "Plaque unveiled on 4th November 1999, the 81st anniversary of Owen's death in action in the First World War, seven days before the armistice". www.scarboroughcivicsociety.org.uk. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
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