Access to Murren is by cableway and Swiss mountain railway. It is also connected by a cableway to the Schilthorn, which featured in a James Bond film. Sir Alfred Lunn (of Lunn Poly) was involved in the beginning of downhill ski racing from the Schilthorn to Murren. Murren became a favourite for European royal families and the other rich people of those times.
Long before then, in October 1916 there was an influx of vastly different visitors. They were British ex-prisoners of war from Germany. The Swiss Red Cross had an arrangement with the warring countries, where they took unfit prisoners of war from both sides, into Switzerland and interned them there These internees were put in the care of doctors, to improve their health. When they were fit enough, but not fit for further military service they were re-patriated to their own countries. At Murren there was about 400 British ex-prisoners.
Among them was my Dad, (second from right) He had been wounded and captured in France on the 14th September 1914. He was imprisoned in Germany until Oct. 1916. Later the Red Cross took some of the wives from England to Murren.) 
Arrival of wives at Murren 1917 -among them was my Mum (in centre with white hat)
Mum & Dad on right, Hotel Regina also on right- one of the hotels Dad was in.
As you can see the hotel looks a lot different today.
The Tee shirt wearer strikes again, it's me, hoping to be recognised on the slopes of the Jungfrau
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