What is recorded here
This black commemorative plaque records: Tontine Hotel 1808 French prisoners may have helped to build this Georgian hotel which was financed on the Tontine principle Recorded plaque organisation: peebles civic society.
The Tontine Hotel, built in 1808, is a Georgian structure potentially constructed with labor from French prisoners of war; it was financed through the Tontine system, an early form of investment where shareholders benefited from the deaths of other investors.
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