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The Red Gables Hotel in Penmaenmawr, North Wales, is, at first glance, just another derelict hotel awaiting demolition.
It becomes a little more interesting when you learn that it is notorious for being the scene of North Wales' worst ever mass murder back on 24th September 1976. The Hotel's former Gardener, Neil Rutherford, returned to the Hotel with an automatic pistol and killed everyone he found there, before setting the Hotel alight and shooting himself. A total of five people died in the hotel that day.
A contemporary press report can be read here:
http://threetownsforum.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,367.msg12725.html#msg12725
After the murders, the Hotel was refurbished and reopened, but the bypassing of Penmaenmawr by the A55 in the mid 1980s killed its passing trade and it drifted slowly towards closure in 2004. Since closure, vandals & thieves have destroyed the interior. Permission was granted back in 2007 for demolition and replacement by housing, but the Hotel remains empty and for sale.
On to the photos!
Red Gables Hotel by [davidrobertsphotography], on Flickr
Red Gables Hotel by [davidrobertsphotography], on Flickr
Red Gables Hotel by [davidrobertsphotography], on Flickr
Red Gables Hotel by [davidrobertsphotography], on Flickr
Red Gables Hotel by [davidrobertsphotography], on Flickr
Red Gables Hotel by [davidrobertsphotography], on Flickr
Red Gables Hotel by [davidrobertsphotography], on Flickr
Red Gables Hotel by [davidrobertsphotography], on Flickr
Red Gables Hotel by [davidrobertsphotography], on Flickr
Red Gables Hotel by [davidrobertsphotography], on Flickr
Red Gables Hotel by [davidrobertsphotography], on Flickr
A few more photos can be seen on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davellandudno/sets/72157632454690598/
It becomes a little more interesting when you learn that it is notorious for being the scene of North Wales' worst ever mass murder back on 24th September 1976. The Hotel's former Gardener, Neil Rutherford, returned to the Hotel with an automatic pistol and killed everyone he found there, before setting the Hotel alight and shooting himself. A total of five people died in the hotel that day.
A contemporary press report can be read here:
http://threetownsforum.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,367.msg12725.html#msg12725
After the murders, the Hotel was refurbished and reopened, but the bypassing of Penmaenmawr by the A55 in the mid 1980s killed its passing trade and it drifted slowly towards closure in 2004. Since closure, vandals & thieves have destroyed the interior. Permission was granted back in 2007 for demolition and replacement by housing, but the Hotel remains empty and for sale.
On to the photos!
Red Gables Hotel by [davidrobertsphotography], on Flickr
Red Gables Hotel by [davidrobertsphotography], on Flickr
Red Gables Hotel by [davidrobertsphotography], on Flickr
Red Gables Hotel by [davidrobertsphotography], on Flickr
Red Gables Hotel by [davidrobertsphotography], on Flickr
Red Gables Hotel by [davidrobertsphotography], on Flickr
Red Gables Hotel by [davidrobertsphotography], on Flickr
Red Gables Hotel by [davidrobertsphotography], on Flickr
Red Gables Hotel by [davidrobertsphotography], on Flickr
Red Gables Hotel by [davidrobertsphotography], on Flickr
Red Gables Hotel by [davidrobertsphotography], on Flickr
A few more photos can be seen on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davellandudno/sets/72157632454690598/