Ocean Hotel in Sandown on the Isle of Wight from above in 2023
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2025
- Sandown's Ocean Hotel is looking in a pretty sorry state at the moment. This is a real shame as it's such a prominent building in front of the golden sands of Sandown. I thought it was capturing it on camera in the hope that one day it will be transformed and I can do a comparison video.
The hotel opened in 1938 and closed in 2012. According to BBC News, Charles Darwin and Lewis Carroll both stayed at the hotel. (Read the blog for more on this, as the dates are a bit confusing www.isleofwigh...)
A useful summary of what happened to the Ocean Hotel in recent years was sent to the Isle of Wight County Press by Cllr Ian Ward: www.countypres...
If you want somewhere a little less damaged to stay in then take a look at our guide to accommodation in Sandown: www.isleofwigh...
Lovely Hotel Spain many holiday there😢😢😢
Beautiful shots, Slight correction for your description, Ocean was built 1899 by Henry Lowenfeild as an extension to the Kings Head Hotel. Ocean closed in 2017 as the owners retired, the new owners were running a scam. Part of The Kings Head Hotel where Darwin & Carroll stayed was built early 1800s, that's the section where the fire was. much of the original features survive inside. There's an article going round that has muddled the history up with another hotel in Sandown called the Grand. So I can see how the mixed up dates have occurred. Hope that helps. Keep it up & all the best. Arron Swaffar (The Heritage Squatter) :)
Thanks for the comment. I wrote a bit more about this confusion in the blog post, as I thought that the dates didn't quite match up. Here's what I wrote in the blog, which I *think* is accurate:
"The Daily Star reports that it (The Ocean Hotel) opened in 1899 and was visited by Charles Darwin. This would be a terrific nugget of local information if it weren't for the minor detail that Charles Darwin died 17 years earlier in 1882. The same report also says that Lewis Carroll was a visitor. Unfortunately, he had been dead for a year by 1899 so something doesn't quite add up.
On The Wight sheds a little more light on this confusion. It suggests that Lewis Carroll visited 'The King’s Head, the gabled section of Ocean Hotel' which was extended and renamed as the Ocean Hotel in 1899."
I will add a link to the blog post in the description.
@@isleofwightguru Quite right, It's bad reporting on Daily Stars part. Brit Hotel" an all that crap, I don't know why they put a weird dramatic spin on the campaign too, I was mostly just on the roof in the breeze as night fell. There's a few things in there article that are way off. Biggest being the line saying Ocean "was built on top of the former King's Head hotel" Which isn't right, It was built around it. Trying to draw awareness to it's history and how Carlauren had purposely made it derelict was a big part of what I was trying to do. Kings Head Hotel is the surviving early gabled roofed section where the fire was at the north end, It began life as an aviary of politician John Wilkes in the 1790's, then was expanded after he died as an Inn in the early 1800's. Darwin stayed there in the 1850's beginning Origin of Species and Carroll was there 95 nights through the 1870's. The hotel was all renamed with the building of Ocean in 1899. There's been various extensions over the years so it's a complicated building to explain, an early 1800's marine cottage the other end of the site became a pub in the 1950s that was given the name Kings House which has only added to the mayhem of explaining it to anyone. This is the part that survives: www.etsy.com/uk/listing/547562640/kings-head-hotel-print-isle-of-wight . On the wight reported a bit I communicated to them during the Heritage Squatting here: onthewight.com/derelict-sandown-hotel-occupied-by-group-aiming-to-preserve-its-cultural-heritage/ and here's Kings Head on the 1860s map maps.nls.uk/view/102343209 I hope to do a full History on it all somewhen :)
Sandown is nothing but a tragedy at this point, even with that new hotel and houses that have recently been built.
Definitely and if the place had a serious injection of cash to improve the place and brighten it up it would make a big difference.
We were staying not far from this awful looking building. Why has the authorities done something about it? Is this yet another forgotten town by the authorities. If you don’t get on top of the problem quickly then it only gets worse then cost 5 times as much the longer you leave it. Short sighted councils are the bane of the residents in this country.
It's a bit of a long story but a recent update is here: onthewight.com/former-owners-of-the-ocean-hotel-lose-appeal-over-clean-up-directive/
It’s just full of crackhead squatters now
@@isleofwightguru thanks for the link. Hope it finally gets sorted.
Irònic just fpund out i own this place, i was left it in trust 15 plus yesrs ago, im welsh and literally over on island now, trying to find the last smack head the 15th councillors and the clown who left 12 toilets in my garage, ill sue sns own the whole island, i blame Northampton police on my broken windows