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Feb 2023
Harrogate hotel begins recruiting — three weeks after laying off 76 staff
The St George Hotel in Harrogate is recruiting staff — just three weeks after it closed with the loss of 76 jobs.
The hotel is due to re-open in about 13 weeks as a pub with rooms rather than a traditional hotel. That is the preferred model of The Inn Collection Group, a Newcastle-based company that bought the historic venue in February last year.
The company is now advertising for a general manager on a salary from £45,000 and a head chef on a salary from £42,000.
A spokesman said the venue was still due to re-open in mid-summer. Scaffolding has gone up outside the building.
Asked about the decision to recruit so soon after making redundancies, the spokesman said:
The Inn Collection Group also owns the Ripon Spa Hotel, Dower House in Knaresborough and Dean Court in York, among others.
The St George Hotel, which is opposite the Royal Hall on Ripon Road, grew out of the Chequers Inn and was renamed after George III’s gift of the Stray to the people of Harrogate in 1778.
It was enlarged several times during the 19th century and renamed the St George shortly before the First World War.
It was badly damaged by fire in 1927 and requisitioned by the Post Office and Air Ministry during the Second World War before re-opening as a hotel in 1952. It acquired a spa facility in 1985.
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