Housel Bay Hotel
1922 to Today
After the First World War, the hotel saw a number of society guests including, in 1922, the poet G.K. Chesterton and many other writers, actors and minor gentry.
In 1930 there was a dramatic cliff rescue near Housel Bay. One of the guests, a Miss Johnson, slipped and fell down a nearby cliff. She was caught on the ledge for some hours while villagers and hotel staff tried to rescue her. Eventually she was helped to safety, bruised but otherwise unhurt. A diary entry by one of the guests at the time has a cryptic comment about the event. It says "Many of the local villagers were standing on the beach below watching the rescue. As the young lady was pulled to safety a collective sigh went up from the assembled people. It may have been a relief that she was finally safe but I suspect a secondary factor was that many of those below had an interesting view of the lady's petticoats!"
