c1930

Also as the GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY HOTEL

Family & Commercial Hotel dating from at least 1863.

Samuel Wales advertised September 1863 that the house was replete with every comfort and accommodation and commanded fine views of the German Ocean and the Lincolnshire Coast.

Ernest Wales was shot in the head by Hubert Klee on 2nd January 1902. On 24th January 1902 it was reported that he was in a critical state, the bullet not removed, and a journey to hospital because of the risk involved.
Hubert Klee, the assistant manager, committed suicide after the shooting. His funeral was on Sunday  5th January and "several hundred people" attended. A large congregation attended St. Edmund's Church in the evening where Klee was said to be "punctilious in his religious duties, but had fallen away of late, drawn away by a life which was eminently unfitted to the temperament of the poor lad, whose sad end had spread such gloom over their small community"
On 11th January 1902 it was reported that young Klee was formerly a pianist in the Hunstanton Pier Band, and Wales "took a fancy to him" and persuaded him to live with him at the Railway Hotel.

Harry Williams, of the Sandringham Hotel sought to employ a Kitchen Maid, a General Maid  and a Good Waitress for the Railway Hotel, 27th May 1902.

The Excellent household Furniture, the Whole Contents of the Hotel, were For Sale by Auction, Monday 16th June 1902, upon the Instructions of Mr. Ernest Wales who was relinquishing Business in consequence of ill-health.

Closed 1967 - Reopened as the WASH & TOPE