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Victoria Private Hotel

26/10/2014

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The above postcard shows the present Victoria Court on Victoria Road as a private hotel in the 1950s.  The previous post included an advert for the hotel from 20 or so years earlier when the hotel itself offered putting, clock golf and tennis quoits as guest activities.  It also had private bathing boxes on the nearby beach.  Many indoor activities would have also been laid on, such as dances, whist drives, table tennis and other indoor sports.  The establishment had 17 bedrooms plus a dining room and drawing room - plus good kitchen facilities and a bakehouse, and at one time a smoking room and additional parlours.
Earlier in its existence, the building was known as Victoria Boarding House.  In 1923 the furnishings of the house were auctioned off, giving an insight into life there during its first two decades.  Among the items listed for sale on 25 and 26 October that year at Dow & Co on the Lawnmarket in Edinburgh were Axminster carpets, a piano, a walnut display cabinet, oak sideboard, mahogany tables, chairs and bookcases, writing desks, butler's trays, marble clock, gong, palm stands, barometer, wicker chairs, baggage stools, crystal ware, oil and watercolour paintings, fire irons, garden seats, a mangle, a large quantity of tinned fruits and 20 head of poultry!
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In the early 1970s, conversion of the building into flats took place and an advert from March 1972 shows only the penthouse remaining.  

Given the building's elevated position above the shore, the "uninterrupted view over Largo Bay and Lundin Golf Course" must remain a stunning feature of the top-floor flat, more than a century after the building was first constructed for the visitors that flocked to the area.

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Douglas Dickson
17/7/2016 02:14:23 pm

Around the years of 1965 to 1970 (when I was around 10/14 years of age) I holidayed here with my parents.we got very friendly with se
veral
families who likewise came here at the same time each summer.
the trainline was at the bottom of the garden and every time we heard the steam engine in the distance all the youngsters would run down and wave as it went bye, happy happy memories indeed.

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Douglas Cairns
15/5/2020 12:08:59 pm

Our family stayed at the Victoria every 2nd week in July between 1955 and 1965. Cricket and football on the lawn. The afternoon teas were fantastic serviced on the table tennis table in the playroom. If my memory is correct it was run by a Mrs Landells and Mary used to wait on the tables. It was always a competition and an honour to ring the gong announcing that dinner was served. Great place and great memories

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