Source 2B is a page from the ABC Tourist
Guide for 1907, advertising the Spa Hotel Strathpeffer.
Strathpeffer was
famous for its water which was supposed to be very good for the health. People
travelled there to drink the water.
Questions
1. Make a list of the activities the Spa Hotel offered.
2.
Tick the items on your list which are also shown in Source 2A
3.
What evidence is there that this hotel advertised itself as a "healthy" place
to stay.
4. What activity did it advertise which we now think is
very unhealthy?
5. What evidence is there that lots of people came
to this hotel?
ABC Tourist Guide, 1907 National Archives of Scotland - BR/ TT(S)/3/2/10 Courtesy
of the British Railways Board (Residuary) Ltd
SOURCE
2B TRANSCRIPT
Fine Dining, Drawing,
Smoking, Billiards and Recreation Rooms
Bedroom and Private Sitting Room
Electric Light and Perfect Sanitation
Excellent
Cuisine Invalid Dietary, including "Salisbury," a Speciality Milk & Sour Cream
from our own adjacent Dairy Farm
Salmon and Trout
Fishing in River and Loch. Close to splendid Golf Course. Tennis Court and Croquet
Lawn. Motor Garage, and Cars on Hire (Petrol, &c. supplied.) Officially Appointed
by S.A.C. Saddle, &c., Horses, and carriages of all kinds.
