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Meet the Landlady
The provision of cheap hotel Brighton rapidly became big business at the main seaside resorts. In the beginning, the mainly high-class visitors generally rented whole houses, usually for long lets, catering for themselves and bringing their own servants with them. By the end of the 18th century and throughout the 19th, apartments were gaining in popularity. Visitors rented a suite of rooms, bought their own food locally and the resident landlady and her servants would do the cooking and cleaning.

As time progressed it became common, especially for the less well-off, to rent just a single room or even to share a room. Full board with the landlady doing the catering and cooking was an expensive alternative more popular in some resorts than in others. Purpose-built luxury hotels providing a variety of amenities did not appear to any great extent until mid-Victorian times.

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18/19 Charlotte Street, Brighton, East Sussex, BN2 1AG
Tel: +44(0)1273 601203
Fax:+44(0)1273 621973