Here is what the MD had to say in 2009 when he was asked for a little description of history with the Fairview:

““My father bought the Fairview Hotel in 1946 as a running hotel.  There was one main double storey building constructed in stone with 30 bedrooms and 5 old houses (annexes) constructed in wood and corrugated iron, each on a base of a stone plinth.  None of the bedrooms had their own bathroom, wash hand basin, toilet or telephone.  The laundry was a corrugated iron shed and washing was done by hand. The hotel was not on the sewer.  There was no car park.  The present main car park was a tennis court.  I started working in the hotel on the 1st March 1955 and over time, carried out improvements. 

My daughter joined me in the early 90’s after hotel school in Switzerland.  A few years later her husband joined us from the Hilton.  And then in 1997 my son also joined from Wall Street. We have become a real family-run business”