Victoria Hotel, Church Road, St Annes on Sea

iBase ID

234351

Reference identifier

NST20110818025

Title

Victoria Hotel, Church Road, St Annes on Sea

Place

St Annes on Sea

General notes

The amounderness.co.uk website tells us that the Victoria Hotel was ".....designed by Lancashire architect John Dent Harker. It was probably named in honour of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee (1897) as it was constructed about this date........ The hotel was built on Common Side Lane which shortly afterwards was renamed Church Road..... Until the 1870s the area had been part of the West End of Lytham Manor. It was an isolated farming community with a handful of farms and cottages along Common Side Lane. Inland were ditches and fields; seawards was Lytham Common and sand dunes...... From 1875 the new town of St.Annes was developed and a great deal of working-class housing was erected along Clifton St (Curzon Rd), Church Road and Nelson St (Holmfield Rd)." (Aug 2011)

This is one of a set of copies of images (presumably the originals were postcards) that were donated anonymously to St Annes Library in 2011. In spite of publicity in the local newspaper we have had no further information about the donor. If anyone has information about the images or the donor we would be pleased to hear from them.

Medium

Postcard

Colour

Monochrome

Original image size

13.1x8.1cm

Year of image

c.1914

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Locator

2061

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