Mr Griffin, who now lives in Gosford, near Sydney, Australia, had been working at the Hilton hotel in Amsterdam at the time, but said the “opportunity was too good to turn down” and arrived in Nelson’s county in the autumn of 1967.
He said: “All I knew of Norwich at the time was that my father had told me it had a spectacular cathedral, and also my grandmother had worked alongside the nurse Edith Cavell in London–but that was it.
“At the time, the main hotel competition was the Maid’s Head and the Royal.
The Buttery inside the Castle Hotel, Norwich