{"id":6686,"date":"2023-07-27T20:03:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T20:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotslion.co.uk\/?page_id=6686"},"modified":"2023-07-28T20:05:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:05:38","slug":"sannox-hotel-a-bit-unique","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scotslion.co.uk\/home-page\/sannox-hotel-a-bit-unique\/","title":{"rendered":"Sannox Hotel – A Bit Unique"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sannox Hotel – Unique & SBS<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sannox Hotel<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Formerly The Ingledene Hotel<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Sannox, Isle of Arran, KA27 8JD<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

To help our readers and the prospective hotel-room-owners as well as visitors to the Sannox Hotel, we have placed a note on our website to clarify some of the building’s history. First this..<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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The next photograph\u00a0 is a close-up of the wording on the plaque we have at the Sannox Hotel (formerly known as the Ingledene Hotel). Hopefully it is easier to read the larger letters..<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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^^ Was The SBS Invented ^^<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

^^ At The Ingledene Hotel? ^^<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Source seems to verify this: Click Here<\/a><\/span><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The managing director of the current owner (2023) of Sannox Hotel is Russ McLean. He was brought up on Arran at the nearby Blackrock House Hotel in twin-village to Sannox, being Corrie and has known the Sannox Hotel for most of his life.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"^^ Blackrock House Hotel ^^<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Corrie, Isle of Arran, KA27 8JB.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Blackrock is the nearest hotel to Sannox Hotel.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

On the topic of Sannox Hotel’s remarkable history, Russ recently commented…<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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“As kids growing up in Corrie, it was drummed into us that the generation before us, those who were in their late teens and early twenties when they went to serve in World War 2, many of whom gave their lives, should always be afforded the fullest measure of respect.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Many days at Corrie and Sannox were lifted when you got to meet one of these former service personnel. Not that they would speak much of the atrocities they had witnessed. Nor of their friends who were unlucky and did not return home after the War.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

But you could tell from the way they carried themselves. They all had a military bearing that was unmistakable. If you were very lucky, you could buy a coffee and listen to some of the less traumatic events these guys went through. The “training days at Folbot” that brought them back, like military <\/b>boomerangs to Sannox and the Ingledene.<\/b><\/span>\u00a0The front garden with tables at Sannox will forever be associated with those veterans.”<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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^^ Sannox Hotel ^^<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Originally…<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

^^ Ingledene Hotel Lunch Garden ^^<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Time Here Chatting With Veterans Was Hubling.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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“Though more often than talk, the sound of silence was the most memorable thing when in the company of these gentlemen. That was enough to realise the depth with which their pilgrimage went. One had travelled<\/b>\u00a0all the way up from Madingley War<\/b>\u00a0Cemetery in Cambridgeshire where he was paying homage to a American buddy. So profound was that day listening to the profound words of this man who had served his country that I visited Madingley a few years later whilst working in London. <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I think every human being should take some time to pay respects at Madingley or one of the many cemeteries tended by the War Graves Commission. It was sunrise and I was driving back to Scotland. But seeing so many headstones of soldiers who never got to live their full lives hit hard and forever. I could only marvel at sitting on a nice summer’s day with someone who had actually seen what happens before the fallen leave the battlefield.”<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n