Old Travel Blog Photograph Station Hotel Oban Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Station Hotel in Oban, Scotland. The hotel, opened in 1881, was managed by Mr Frieshman who was born in Kraftshof, near Nuremberg, and received his education in his native village. After his education Mr Frieshman joined the Trade and learned thoroughly the wine business with Mr Carl Giesing, with whom he remained for four years. He joined the staff of the Hotel de Baviere in Munich, from whence he went to Lucerne, Switzerland, to the hotel which was owned by Messrs Hauser Frere & Schweizerhof, and stayed here for eighteen months. He then proceeded to Cannes, where he remained for six months, and was for two Years in the famous Hotel de las Paix at Geneva. After being for six months in the Hotel de France at Nice, he came to London, England, at the Alexandra Hotel, where he remained for two years. He then joined the staff at the Edinburgh Hotel in Princes Street, Edinburgh, where he stayed a year, and then went to Glasgow to the George Hotel, where he remained for six years with the Mrs Lachlan. The year after he went to Oban, and opened the Station Hotel for Mrs Campbell, with success. Mr Frieshman married in 1887 to Miss Campbell the daughter of his employer and owner of the Station Hotel.



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