Cockington Horse & carriageFawlty Towers
The experiences of the Monty Python team at the The Gleneagles Hotel is what sparked off the idea for John Cleese to write the brilliant series "Fawlty Towers". Although the series was not actually filmed here. The Pythons were staying here whilst filming Monty Python's Flying Circus television series in the early 1970s.
Amusing incidents are of the awful hotelier Mr Sinclair, ................he threw Eric Idles briefcase outside claiming there could be a bomb inside, throwing a timetable at another customer who dared ask when the next bus was and also complaining about the table manners of Terry Gilliam.
The hotel looks a little worse for wear these days, I doubt the Python team would stay there now. There is talk of the hotel being demolished which would be a shame considering its part in one of Britains funniest comedy's.
