Fawlty Towers - Sold for £1.5m

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Not the one in Buckinghamshire used in the series as that burnt down a few years back, but the inspirational Devon Hotel the Monty Python team stayed in and the lair of the real life Basil.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/4267511.stm

BBC said:

he Devon hotel which inspired the classic BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers has been sold for about £1.5m. Show creator John Cleese based the character of Basil Fawlty on Donald Sinclair, a former owner of the Hotel Gleneagles, in Torquay. Cleese, who stayed at the hotel with the Monty Python team in 1971, described Mr Sinclair as "the most wonderfully rude man I have ever met". Mr Sinclair, who died in 1981, is said to have thrown Eric Idle's suitcase out of the window "in case it contained a bomb" and complained about Terry Gilliam's table manners.

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Mr Sinclair by all accounts placed a knife and fork in Gilliams hands suggesting that 'we dont eat like that in this country'

[v8thunder]

They have to rename it Fawlty Towers, even if the service is impeccable. In fact I'm sure they'd pay for awful service, FT-style. Is there a red Austin 1100 parked outside, being thrashed with a branch?

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v8thunder said:

They have to rename it Fawlty Towers, even if the service is impeccable. In fact I'm sure they'd pay for awful service, FT-style. Is there a red Austin 1100 parked outside, being thrashed with a branch?

And have a Gourmet Night.

Positions Vacant: Waiter. Must be from Barcelona.