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!
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.
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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