Bath Hotel Felixstowe

Suffragettes Evaline Burkitt and Florence Tunks were convicted of arson after setting fire to the Bath Hotel in Felixstowe, Suffolk, on 28 April 1914. It was part of the campaign to get the vote. The hotel can be seen here on the 1903 OS map.

The pub immediately to the south of the hotel was probably the Bath Hotel Tap. The Bath Hotel was built in 1839 for John Cobbold and originally called the Hamilton Hotel. It has also been referred to as the Hamilton Arms, which was renamed to the Bath Hotel in the 1860s.

This podcast tells the story of Hilda Burkett and Florence Tunks, two militant suffragettes who staged an arson attack on the Bath Hotel, Felixstowe, in April 1914. It is a dramatisation based on Home Office documents from The National Archives that detail the imprisonment and forced feeding of Burkett and Tunks. A secondary source called 'Felixstowe's Last Bath Night', written by Wayne.

The Bath Hotel, Felixstowe, after it was torched by suffragettes. Following the chance finding of a nineteenth century visitors' book for The Bath Hotel, this potted history unearths the fascinating story of Felixstowe's first and foremost luxury hotel. Beginning i.

The Bath Hotel attracted the rich and famous from London Two women once branded "terrorists" have been honoured in a seaside town 100 years after being condemned for burning down a hotel. In April 1914 Tunks and fellow-suffragette Hilda Burkitt burnt down two wheat stacks at Bucklesham Farm valued at £340, the Pavilion at the Britannia Pier in Great Yarmouth and the Bath Hotel in Felixstowe, causing £35,000 of damage to the latter as part of the campaign for women's suffrage. The lawn at the Bath Hotel Felixstowe in 1896.

The Hotel itself was burnt down by Sufraggettes in 1914. Historical discussion about the Bath Hotel Felixstowe in 1896 and its destruction by. Bath Hotel Felixstowe 1912.

Does anyone know of any stories from when the Bath Hotel was open?:) to view the full resolution image and more. The 100th anniversary of the burning down of a hotel by suffragettes in Suffolk has been commemorated with the unveiling of a blue plaque. The former Bath Hotel in Felixstowe was set alight in.