View of Peebles Hydropathic Hotel from gardens.
BL 12766
Description View of Peebles Hydropathic Hotel from gardens.
Date 1894
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number BL 12766
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Peebles Hotel Hydropathic, Innerleithen Road, Peebles, from the south-east Peebles Hotel Hydropathic, designed by the architect, John Starforth, was built in 1878-81 on a commanding position overlooking the River Tweed. The hotel was photographed in 1894 by the architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere. This huge, five-storeyed imposing red sandstone building stood on the south-facing slope of Venlaw. It was built in a French Renaissance style, and adorned with a large number of turrets, and a long Victorian conservatory as an extension to the west. The hotel was a 'cure centre' for the annual or periodic treatment of disease by the external and internal application of water. It catered for the 'upper, middle and leisured classes', and provided 'all the curative advantages of a continental spa'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Glass
External Reference Box 52
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