Richard Dante, of Leeds, has sent us this fantastic collection of pictures and postcards.

His late Father Jack Dante pictured "on a lovely sunny day in August 1970, having driven down from Leeds in his Mark IV Ford Zephyr V6 for the annual family holiday for a full fortnight at the Cumberland Hotel on the East Cliff.

"The hotel was under the personal supervision of the late great Bluma Feld, the matriarch of the Feld family who acquired the Cumberland in 1949 with her husband Isaac Feld".

Mr Dante recalls that The New Ambassador was always advertised as "the largest kosher hotel in Europe", until it closed in 2005.

The Cumberland, named after the renowned Marble Arch hotel in London, "provided superb accommodation and sumptuous kosher meals and was very successful in the 1950s and 1960s before the cheap package holidays began".

Mr Dante was present at a talk in Leeds, In June, by Geoffrey Feld, son of the Cumberland's owners, who mentioned that the bar takings in a year were £2,000

Contrast that to his Spiders Web Hotel in Elstree which boasted bar takings of £1,500 in a weekend.

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