Haven Hotel
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The Haven Hotel is an AA four star hotel in Sandbanks, near Poole, Dorset on the south coast of England.
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The first hotel built on this location was the North Haven Inn in 1838. The Inn was demolished and replaced with the present Haven Hotel in 1887.[1] Guglielmo Marconi established a wireless transmitter at the Haven in 1899, and carried out some of his first wireless telegraphy experiments from the hotel.[2] Photographs and information on these experiments are still on display in the Marconi Lounge, within the hotel. Other notable guests include Robert Browning and John Major.[1] The Haven housed Belgian refugees during the First World War and was a military contact point during the Second World War, and was at one stage a Naval detachment. In 1976, the Haven was purchased by the hotel chain FJB Hotels.
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- ^ a b Morris, Iris. Looking Back at Sandbanks.
- ^ My Father, Marconi, Degan Marconi, Guernica Editions, 1996, ISBN 1550710443 Google Books, retrieved 3 August 2008
