14/11/2017
We are sad to pass on the news that Roger Carpenter died on the 27th October after a long illness borne with courage. He and his family had been KH regulars for over thirty years, visiting in the August Bank Holiday week every year from the time that the children were small. The regulars of that week became friends, their children growing up together and then bringing their own children to the hotel, and Roger was delighted to celebrate his seventieth Birthday at KH in that week two years ago, with a Bay Lounge full of three generations of KH friends. Roger was an enthusiastic walker until his illness rendered him unable to do so and he was the author of 'Nine Walks Around Knoll House', describing routes which he had himself explored and developed. Another memory of Roger from that week is of hearing him play the Garden Room piano; usually Bach. His last visit was in August 2016. Sadly he was too unwell to make it this year, either in spring, which was often the time for a short visit, or to the annual late August gathering.
