Interior-general view of Dining Room
B 64258
Description Interior-general view of Dining Room
Date 1894
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number B 64258
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copy of BL 12768/X
Copies SC 683117
Scope and Content Dining Room, Peebles Hotel Hydropathic, Innerleithen Road, Peebles Peebles Hotel Hydropathic opened in 1881 as a hotel offering to provide hydrotherapeutic measures for the annual or periodic treatment of disease. The interior was photographed in 1894 by the Victorian architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere. The dining room offered splendid south-facing views, and its long windows were hung with Venetian blinds. In the evening it was lit by electric light, one of the new technologies of the time, when the guests dined to the strains of the hotel's orchestra. Although the hotel offered water cures for the treatment of disease, not all guests were invalids. Many came for a rest cure or a family holiday which could be active or inactive as there was plenty to make the stay 'a ripping holiday'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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