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Victoria Boarding House

5/12/2013

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Built soon after the turn of the century, the Victoria Boarding House had a prime position overlooking Largo Bay close to the railway line.  Not only a popular residence for summer visitors, the building also hosted many village events - such as whist drives, dinners or fund-raisers - out of peak season.  The wartime sender of the above postcard (sent just days after the start of the blackout restrictions in September 1939) complained that "one cannot travel far for this wretched blackout.  It's miserable trying to locate places."
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The decline of tourism and the closure of the railway saw the building converted into flats, like several other former boarding houses.  The present day image show that the building's turret feature no longer exists.  The fantastic sea views of course remain.

If you have memories of the Victoria Boarding House (later known as the Victoria Private Hotel), please comment.

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Douglas Cairns
10/3/2015 08:06:43 am

We stayed in the Victoria every year from mid 50s - 60s. I believe it was run by a Ms Landells. The same families came every year and it was like a re-union when we all met up, There were always competitions, cricket, football table tennis. When the weather was wet it was cards looking out over the sea waiting for the rain to stop. The highlight of the Vicotoria was the afternoon tea, they were not to be missed.
The first port of call when arriving in Lundin Links was a trip to Yannicks to buy the football. He ran a café/shop. There were also the regular trips to the chip shop in Lower Largo overlooking the harbour. I also recollect an aviary at the farm end of Lower Largo.

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Douglas Dickson
2/1/2019 02:43:21 pm

Our family stayed in The Victoria every summer I was probably there around the ages of 10 to 15, we used to meet up with the same families each summer around the Glasgow Fair.I remember the Christison family from Jordanhill were there and a family who had a daughter called Ruth I cannot remember the surname. I also remember they had a gong which was used to rmind gueast it was meal time and the youngsters all got a chance to bag it, I recall too the kids used to run down to the bottom of the garden when we heard the steam train coming along the track, great great days indeed!

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Douglas Cairns
3/4/2019 01:25:14 pm

We were from Jordanhill, can remember the Aitken family.

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