Francis O'Neill, a junior head waiter at the Royal Station Hotel in York was celebrating in December 1979 after walking off with the title of Waiter of the Year, out of 3,000 restaurant staff throughout Britain.

Source: https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/retro/leeds-and-yorkshire-hotel-and-restaurant-waiters-and-waitresses-you-may-remember-4369615

Local choirs will be drafted in to perform and give the town a yuletide feel as council bosses scramble to try and save the festive season with many businesses reporting a plunge in trade following the Station Hotel fire.

Source: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/ayrshire/christmas-trade-plan-launched-south-31455826

The Station Hotel in Gartly was a country pub better known to locals as Mam Doo’s after the formidable landlady Lizzie Dow.

Source: https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-times/6287047/lost-country-pubs-aberdeenshire/