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Osborne Hotel, Exeter
From Graces Guide
of Queen's Terrace, Exeter
formerly Queen's Terrace, Exeter: Nos 16-18
1895 Meeting held at the Osborne Hotel.[1]
1897 Listed as Osborne Hotel, William Charles Williams.
1901 Living at 16-18 Osborne Hotel, Queen's Terrace, Exeter: William C. Williams (age 57 born Lambeth), Hotel Proprietor. With his wife, son and niece. Five servants. Seven boarders.[2]
1910 Listed as the Osborne Temperance Hotel
1911 Living at Osborne Hotel: Manager is Mabel L. Mitchell, six servants and six visitors / boarders.[3]
1935 Listed as the Osborne Hotel
1946 December. Mentioned as the Osborne Hotel, Exeter and a meeting of the Farmer's Union.[4]
1946 Bought by the Devon Farmers Union.[5]
Became the Farmer's Union, Exeter