Angel & Royal

Dower House

Hazlewood Castle

Kings Head

Grants Hotel

So you didn't win... get over it !

Winner - Ashdale - Sylvia McCormack

Winner- Kings Head- Jackie McGee

Winner Angel & Royal- Tibor Antal

Winner Hazlewood Castle- Jamie Clinton

Winners gallery

Winner Dower House- Miklos Annus

Winners gallery

Winner Grants Hotel- Peter O'Brien- who also won the flatscreen TV !!!

And the winners are...

The awards do was every bit as good as last year with Hazlewood again hosting a wonderful evening.

The winners of awards this year

Hazlewood Castle- Jamie Clinton
Kings Head- Jackie McGee
Dower House- Miklos Annus
Grants-Peter O'Brien
Angel and Royal- Tibor Antal

Over all Ashdale employee of the year- Sylvia McCormack- Angel and Royal

Next year will see the introduction of two new awards- for front of house & food and beverage

Attending the awards night are...

Kings Head

Nigel Alexander
Lisa Scott
Adele Hockney
Adele Salonga
Danielle Boyle
Amy Bennison
Dee smith
Jackie McGee
Matthew Nursey
Sean Monoghan
Aaron Hoskins
Pat cooper
Myckala
Kay

Angel&Royal

Sylvia McCormack.
Issey Kime
Adam Kilpin
Lee Dilloway
Tibor Antal
Alison Wright
Katie Puk
Dean Carroll
Julie Gwyther
Michael Wright
Angela Warton
Tony Greenwell

Dower House Hotel

Miklos Annus
Shelagh Holloway
Cath Glennon
Ben Fairhirst –
Morney Thomas Mills
Claire Harrington
Hannah Palmer
Sarah Devaney
Elizabeth Macpherson
Bernadette Hunyak
Aimee Burrows

Hazlewood Castle

Steve trueman - linen porter
Helen young - reception
jenny cannon - sales office
brain Henry - maintenance
Andy ward - banqueting
Jamie Clinton,
Barbara Stone,
Ryszard Potempa
Jordan Hunter

Grants Hotel

Iwona Dorow - Reception
Jill Norton - Housekeeping
Polina Bozhinova – Bar/Restaurant
Monica Snarski - Restaurant
Sarah Clinton – Assistant Manager
Elaine Long
Victoria Vallasso
Amy Stockdale
Natalie Davy
Peter O'Brien

Hazlewood Babies

Hazlewoods babies were recently celebrated at a garden party hosted by the castle.

A worldwide search was conducted to discover Hazlewoods babies from the castles time as a maternity hospital between 1939 & 1953- over 2,500 babies were born here, and over 1500 returned here to meet their fellow Kings & Queens of the castle at the garden party.

We are pleased to announce the imminent arrival of our "Hazlewood Babies" microsite with a feature to allow the babies to share their stories with each other and the rest of the world.

Ashdale awards 2009

As the awards night approaches the staff eagerly await the nominations for this years top employees.

Too late for butt kissing chaps....!

The awards night will be held again at Hazlewood Castle on November 15th which if it is anything as good as last year will be well worth attending.

Watch our collection site for this years winners.

The story of the Kings Head Hero

One calm ordinary evening in the Kings Head hotel, Andy & Gemma took on the heroic task of cleaning the fish are golden finned friends who have been swimming amongst us for the past 4 years. Everthing was going along swimmingly, the bowl was sparkling and all ready for the fish to return home, olga, Adele, Dawn & little Adele.
Into their fresh new home they dive, straight to the bottom, Andy was very impressed by the way they all dived into the bowl,'hey Gemma look at this the fish are sycronised swimming' they then swam to the surface all did a back flip and floated on the top. 'oh my god' cried Gemma I don' t think they are meant to do that.' Sh......i shi.....t shi.....t' crys Andy we've killed the fish. After a desperate telephone call to Kay at home at 10.30pm the concern was then where to bury them & who was going to tell the rest of the reception team. At that moment through the doors, shrouded in mist, and wearing his underpants over his trousers came Graham the night porter, after calling Andy & Gemma a few choice words he scooped up the bowl containing the demised fish, prepared a drinking straw entered the management office & closed the door!!!!! All his paramedic training came flooding back Graham performed CPR , and against all the odds he revived Adele, out he rushed and placed Adele into the bowl. Our hero!!!! what can we say? who would beleive it. We now have renamed Adele Graham ( JC to his friends)

But lest we foreget our thoughts now turn to the others who sadly never recovered, and our buried in an undisclosed grave to avoid the onset of morbid fascination (toilet).

Dower House Head Housekeeper shares top ten tips for the Best western group

Head Housekeeper of the Dower house Hotel Knaresborough shares her top ten tips of where to check hotel rooms for cleanliness, Elizabeth MacPherson has over 40 years experience during which she has trained hundreds of chambermaids, to carry on her high standards.

Bizarre finds are all in a days work from false arms to mascara tubes stuck in the plughole, nothing gets in the way of Elizabeth and her dedicated team. We celebrate the Ashdale groups very own Mrs Immaculate!