St Catherine’s Lodge Hotel in 1955
St Catherine’s Lodge Hotel in Hove is pictured here in 1955 when it was already well established.
The building in St Catherine’s Terrace, part of Kingsway, was erected in the 1860s and became a hotel in 1927.
Ten years later it was described in the Hove guide as having 50 bedrooms, all with hot and cold running water. Fees were from four guineas a week. The hotel was well known in Hove for its fine internal decorations but despite this had several owners and was not always a commercial success.
It was used for housing homeless people in 2001 but this provoked strong opposition from neighbours.
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