HOSPITALITY
& GUEST EXPERIENCE
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Ice Bar Staff 1957
ORIGINs AS A HOTEL & spa
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OWNERS OVER THE YEARS
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Healing Waters of the Bath Stream
Nevis is celebrated for its mineral springs. The principal hotel is the Bath-Hotel, kept by Miss Huggins. It is situated on a rising ground and commands a view of the town, adjacent country, and the sea. It may be considered one of the most salubrious localities in the island. The house is distant from the landing-place about a quarter of a mile. Appertaining to this establishment are hot and tepid baths possessing most valuable medicinal properties. Sir Hans Sloane says, he mastered a severe cough by bathings and drinking the water during a few days' stay on the island. At one part of the stream which supplies the baths, there are two springs: One so intensely cold as to produce a chill through the whole frame, and the other too hot to be borne by the naked foot. "An invalid," writes Mr. Coleridge, "with a good servant, might take up his quarters here with more comfort than in any other house of public reception in the West Indies." Families may also be accommodated with a suit of rooms, and out-offices, on moderate terms."
John Osborne, Guide to the Madeiras, Azores, British and Foreign West Indies, Mexico and Northern South-America, 1842
The West India Public will, it is conceived, learn with much pleasure, that every accommodation now exists for using the Medicinal Waters of this Island.
In forming the establishment of a Bath House, much pains have been taken to arrange all its parts, in reference to the specific object of an Institution designed to give ready access to the means of resorting health. The House is a large, cool stone building, situated on an eminence at a short distance from the town, and is constructed of a magnitude sufficiently extensive to accommodate, without intermingling, a large number of families. In its economy and arrangements, the Proprietor has with great care and attention blended the accommodations requisite for a Patient, with all the personal conveniences and necessaires of life, without, however, intruding on the paramount principle of quiet and retirement for the Invalid. The Medicinal Springs, it may be remarked, which supply the Baths, are only separated by a small shrubbery [sic] from the House, and are so situated as to furnish within the same Remit, but distinctly, the hot and tepid Waters for bathing and drinking.
To the West India Colonist, it can scarcely be necessary to offer any observations on the importance of possessing a native Water of tonic properties. The debilitating tendency of tropical diseases, no less than of their remedies, rendered a local provision of such a nature highly valuable in itself; but regarded as a substitute for the similar resources in Europe, it becomes an acquisition the more valuable, as the means of avoiding all the danger, inconvenience, and expense of a long voyage.
Hitherto the Medicinal waters of Nevis have undergone no regular chemical analyses, nor has experience of their virtues been sufficiently diversified to determine accurately the range of their application. A scientific investigation is, however, understood to be contemplated, from which there seems just grounds for indulging the hope, that latent qualities may be discovered in these Springs equally active as their tonic powers, but of distinctive efficacy.
NEVIS HOT BATH INSTITUTION
Gazette December 17th, 1825
IN ROOM BATHs
amenities
STAFF WAGE LOG BOOK HERE - Wally Wade, a brilliant Montserratian, bought Barbour's interest in the Leeward Island Development Co from him. Wade later sold some of his interest to Pinney's Development company controlled by Max Fischer. This interest sold included the Bath House Estate.
The Bath Hotel Estate And Hot Springs
Brochures
MAKING A BOOKING
There is no historical research done on Bath village, but records indicate that the village started as a "long run" or shelter built by the Anglican Church on glebe land purchased from Bath Estate (or Bath Plain) owned by the black Huggins family. The long run was to provide housing after the 1928 hurricane. The occupants never left and squatted and built houses in the area.
About 20 years ago, an Anglican cleric, Alison Percival, tried to get the people of Bath to pay rent. Defeated by long tenancy.
direct flights
to nevis
Born Nov 27 1892 to Ernest and Rhoda Walwyn in Bath Village.
He was a teacher at Brown Pasture, Nevis and in 1913 he left Nevis to teach at Rosseau Boys School in Dominica until 1915 when he then worked in the Treasury in Portsmouth, Dominica until he returned to Nevis in 1920. From 1930 to 1937, he lived in Antigua with his family where he was appointed an audit clerk in the Treasury in Antigua, He then became the Post Master for St Kitts, Nevis and Anguilla. And in 1947 he became the postmaster to Montserrat. In 1953, when he retired as a civil servant, a small group of prominent residents of Charlestown and Bath Village, to start a cooperative bank. The goal of the bank was to provide financial assistance to marginal individuals. The Nevis Cooperative Bank started in 1954, with DR as its executive chairman, a position he would hold until 1990. He was very active in the Nevisian society and received an honorary doctorate from UWI Cave Hill in 1991. THE D.R. Walwyn Plaza is named in his honor.
BAGGAGE RECEIPT
STAFF WAGE LOG BOOK HERE - Wally Wade, a brilliant Montserratian, bought Barbour's interest in the Leeward Island Development Co from him. Wade later sold some of his interest to Pinney's Development company controlled by Max Fischer. This interest sold included the Bath House Estate.
hospitality
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ICE BAR & DINING
COCKTAIL MENU HERE- Owned the Bath House Hotel. He had come to Nevis from Barbados in the 1850s, where his family made significant wealth from the sugar trade. In the 1850w he acquired the Bath Hotel and held political position in the Executive Council of Nevis.
COCKTAIL MENU HERE- Owned the Bath House Hotel. He had come to Nevis from Barbados in the 1850s, where his family made significant wealth from the sugar trade. In the 1850w he acquired the Bath Hotel and held political position in the Executive Council of Nevis.
ice bar COCKTAIL RECIPES
BRONX
2 Parts Gin, 1/2 Part Italian Vermouth, 1/2 Part French Vermouth, Juice of 1 Orange
Shake and strain
MANHATTAN
2 Parts Gin, 1/2 Part Italian Vermouth, 1/2 Part French Vermouth, Juice of 1 Orange
Shake and strain
MARTINI (DRY)
2 Parts Gin, 1/2 Part Italian Vermouth, 1/2 Part French Vermouth, Juice of 1 Orange
Shake and strain
MARTINI (SWEET)
2 Parts Gin, 1/2 Part Italian Vermouth, 1/2 Part French Vermouth, Juice of 1 Orange
Shake and strain
SIDE CAR
2 Parts Gin, 1/2 Part Italian Vermouth, 1/2 Part French Vermouth, Juice of 1 Orange
Shake and strain
WHITE LADY
2 Parts Gin, 1/2 Part Italian Vermouth, 1/2 Part French Vermouth, Juice of 1 Orange
Shake and strain
OLD FASHIONED
2 Parts Gin, 1/2 Part Italian Vermouth, 1/2 Part French Vermouth, Juice of 1 Orange
Shake and strain
TOM COLLINS
2 Parts Gin, 1/2 Part Italian Vermouth, 1/2 Part French Vermouth, Juice of 1 Orange
Shake and strain
JOHN COLLINS
2 Parts Gin, 1/2 Part Italian Vermouth, 1/2 Part French Vermouth, Juice of 1 Orange
Shake and strain
RUM COLLINS
2 Parts Gin, 1/2 Part Italian Vermouth, 1/2 Part French Vermouth, Juice of 1 Orange
Shake and strain
DUBONNET COCKTAIL
2 Parts Gin, 1/2 Part Italian Vermouth, 1/2 Part French Vermouth, Juice of 1 Orange
Shake and strain
PLANTERS PUNCH
2 Parts Gin, 1/2 Part Italian Vermouth, 1/2 Part French Vermouth, Juice of 1 Orange
Shake and strain
IN ROOM BATHs
amenities
STAFF WAGE LOG BOOK HERE - Wally Wade, a brilliant Montserratian, bought Barbour's interest in the Leeward Island Development Co from him. Wade later sold some of his interest to Pinney's Development company controlled by Max Fischer. This interest sold included the Bath House Estate.
staff wages log book
The Bath House-Hotel structure that stands today is an example of a late Georgian style country home or estate. Characterised by a uniformly cut and dressed stone exterior, the structure is approximately 36 metres long by 18 metres wide, cut into the side of a plateau edge running east-west across the property. As such the front of the building appears as 3 stories high, while it is 2 stories at the back. The building is rectangular in plan, with two partial wings (consisting of front and back “towers”) to the east and west of the main section. The exterior exhibits a symmetry and balanced proportion between the wings and central portion of the building, and with the placement of windows and doors, and had a front portico of apparently wooden colonnades shaped in classic style that supported front verandahs on the second and third stories, and the front of a stone vaulted roof.
Neal Ferris, Department of Anthropology
University of Western Ontario
A Reliable White Person...
Hiring Request Letter
RELIABLE WHITE PERSON LETTER HERE - Dem Say hole. Locals used to wash, bathe, hang clothes on the surrounding trees and gossip. Relating stories of the day, they all started with “yuh hear what dem say” hence the name of the hole.
GARDEN & GROUNDS
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the gorgeous isle
by gertrude atherton
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