Tregenna Castle
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Tregenna Castle in St Ives, Cornwall, was built by John Stephens in the 18th century and is named after the hill on which it stands. The estate was sold in 1871 and became a hotel, a purpose for which
Tregenna Castle by Alan Simkins
Tregenna Castle Hotel in about 1890. (Photochrom print)
Daniel Gooch
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Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Baronet was an English railway locomotive and transatlantic cable engineer. He was the first Superintendent of Locomotive Engines on the Great Western Railway from 1837 to 1864 a
Tregenna Castle
…had only been situated near large terminals or junctions, but this one was the first intended by the GWR as a holiday destination in its own right. Sir Daniel Gooch, the chairman of the GWR, stayed at the hotel a few weeks after it opened to the public. He recorded in his diary that The GWR purchased the hotel…
Sir Daniel Gooch, 1866 engraving (The Illustrated London News)
Gooch's grave at St Andrew's church in Clewer