Mary Seacole in The British Hotel, Spring Hill, near Balaclava - in the middle of 1855
from Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands, pages 108; 110-111:
At length the necessary preparations to establish our store [hotel] were made. We hit upon a spot about two miles from Balaclava, in advance of Kadikoi, close to where the railway engines were stationed, and within a mile of head-quarters. Leave having been obtained to erect buildings here, we set to work briskly, and soon altered the appearance of Spring Hill—so we christened our new home.
… more >>Mary Seacole, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands (London, July, 1857), p. 108; 110-111. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1628582067413 accessed: 22 December, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| God Save the Queen | performed by Turkish military band |
| Turkish military music | performed by Turkish Military band |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | in the middle of 1855 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Notes
Seacole established the British Hotel (Spring Hill) behinds the lines during the Crimean War (1853 – 1856) with her business partner Thomas Day, a relative of her husband, Edwin Horatio Hamilton Seacole. Edwin died in 1844, eight years after they married. Seacole uses the French spelling to describe her supporter ‘the Pasha’, a term denoting high military rank.