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From: Geoff Chew <>
Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] Hood
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:16:57 +0100
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To be honest I don't remember the first names of the Hoods at the
Hogsback Inn, It may well have been the Robin Hood (dentist)
mentioned by Ian, but I can't be sure: we knew them slightly from
visiting friends staying at the Inn, but our family used to stay at
another of the resorts.

I have an old guide to Hogsback, unfortunately undated, but I guess it
must be from the late 1950s or even later. Its advert for the
Hogsback Inn (phone number Hogsback 6) mentions the owners as being a
Karl and Hilde Heil, but it also advertises the Hogsback Nursery
(phone Hogsback 13) run by an I. J. HOOD. (The phone numbers date it:
when we started staying at Hogsback about 1946 or 7, the phone
exchange was called Arminel; a "Hogsback" post office and exchange was
set up only I guess around 1949 or 50. It was a marvellous shared
party line with a woman sitting there putting through all the calls -
the number of rings told you whether it was your call or not, but you
could always pick up the phone and listen to whoever was on the line
talking to someone else! I remember as a small child attacking the
phone box and being rewarded with a huge deluge of tickeys that came
pouring out!)

Geoff

On 29 June 2011 06:23, Alec and Debbie <> wrote:
>
> There were a few siblings of my Grandfather about whom I know nothing so it
> is possible that one of their offspring could have been involved but to date
> I have not discovered anything relating to Hogsback.  Do you know what their
> first names were?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> [mailto:] On Behalf Of Geoff
> Chew
> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 11:13 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] Hood
>
> Are these the HOODs who ran the Hogsback Inn (formerly the Hogsback
> Hydro) around the 1950s?

--
Geoff Chew


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