No Amusement of any Kind

Bournemouth

Tony Hancock – who we last encountered in Cransford – spent a lot of his early life in Bournemouth hotels. Which may go some significant way to explain why he always looked so bloody morose.

His childhood homes were the Railway Hotel and the Durlston Court Hotel. The Railway Hotel is no more, as far as I can tell. Either it stood where there is now a br…