FIVE years ago John Perry and Ashley Matthews bought an old dilapidated hotel 22kms out of York with a plan to restore the hotel and open a restaurant and bed and breakfast.Back then it was just an old run down hotel in the middle of nowhere.

FIVE years ago John Perry and Ashley Matthews bought an old dilapidated hotel 22kms out of York with a plan to restore the hotel and open a restaurant and bed and breakfast.Back then it was just an old run down hotel in the middle of nowhere.