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South Shore Promenade

30 January 2010
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This part of the promenade starts at Manchester Square, the junction of the promenade, Rigby Road and Lytham Road, and continues south to Squires Gate Lane.

More ‘Street Scenes’ can be found in the A-Z of streets sections

A-D, E-H, I-L, M-P, Q-T, U-Z

Schottler’s Manchester Hotel & Terrace

Manchester Terrace looking north towards the Manchester Hotel and Tyldesley Terrace

Manchester Terrace looking South

2 Manchester Terrace, 233 Promenade. Demolished in the 1930’s for new Manchester Hotel

3 Manchester Terrace, 235 Promenade

4 Manchester Terrace, 237 Promenade

5 Manchester Terrace, 239 Promenade

Manchester Terrace looking North

Eaves Terrace, between Ormrod Place and Trafalgar Road

Eaves Terrace – Trafalgar Hydro.

Eaves Terrace – Misnamed Manchester Terrace

Eaves Terrace showing the Trafalgar Hydro

Eaves Terrace and Waterloo Bank

Waterloo Bank, between Trafalgar Road and Waterloo Avenue (now Barton Avenue)

Envelope dated 1891 sent to Oakville, Sea Bank at South Shore.  Sea Bank was at the north end of a terrace on the promenade, between Waterloo Ave( now Barton Ave), and Wellington Road

Eccleston Bank & Bindloss Terrace, site of Lyndene Hotel, between Wellington Road and Woodfield Road

St. Chads Terrace, between Woodfield Road and St. Chads Road

Built in 1891

St. Chads Terrace, between Woodfield Road and St. Chads Road

Another view of St. Chads Terrace

4 St. Chads Terrace

Crystal Villas, between St. Chads Road and Crystal Road

Crystal Terrace, between Crystal Road and Alexandra Road

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Vancouver Hotel on the site of Crystal Terrace. Later renamed The Royal Carlton and now has a lift shaft on the left of building

Crystal Terrace looking north

Another view of Crystal Terrace looking north

Kensington House, corner of Alexandra Road

379 Kensington Place, between Alexandra Road and Shaw Road. ‘The Cornhill’, Mrs. Lord

A later view from 1931. The name of the landlady is Mrs. Dearden

North of Waterloo Road, between Commercial Street and Shaw Road

The Tudor Rose Hotel was included in the block

Brighton Hydro, now the Colonial Hotel, north of the Queen’s Hotel

Brighton Hydro, now the Colonial Hotel

The Brighton Hydro when it was part of the Post Office Fellowship of Remembrance Holiday Centre group

The POFRHC is now called Classic Hotels

The Ballroom at Brighton Hydro

The Queen’s Hydro Hotel, also called the South Shore Hydro

The smaller building on the left of this view is now occupied by the Queen’s Hotel

Alexander Moore, a doctor and a prominent public man in the mid 1800’s built these smaller buildings and they became known as “Doctor’s Cottages”

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Bel Air & Bella Vista, South Shore

South of the Queen’s Hotel, the terrace with the Viking Hotel and Talk of the Coast

The building on the left with the fancy front can be seen on the Queen’s Hotel picture

Early view of the Queen’s Hydro

Queen’s with early motorcar c.1921

Queen’s Hydro – 1928

Advert from 1933

Queen’s Hydro Hotel – 1940

South Shore promenade in front of the Queens Hydro

South Shore beach scene between Dean Street and Station Road

A later view showing the building on the corner, now demolished, next to the ‘Talk of the Coast’ and ‘Viking Hotel’

Sir Lindsay Parkinson & Co. Ltd – 1936 – Probably Station Road

Linden Lee, corner of promenade and Dean Street

Looks much the same today, but without the corner turret

The Vicarage, corner of promenade and Station Road. The upstairs can still be seen today as part of Pablo’s

The Vicarage as seen from the beach

Built in the late 1840’s, the 1851 census shows the Rev. Banner living there with his family

Miss Blower – Cafe. Later Tomlinson’s Cafe

Victoria Pier & Open Air Baths. Building work still going on at the front

Open Air Baths, South Shore, opened June 9th June 1923, Carnival Week

1923 Carnival Week. The Open Air Swimming Baths can be seen being completed

South Shore from the Pleasure Beach

Open Air Bath, Entrance, South Shore

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