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Description: | The buildings shown on the left of the photograph were built in the late 1850s. In 1930 the Royal Camp Hotel was bought for £2200 by two Aldershot Masonic Lodges (The Panmure and Aldershot Camp Lodges) with the intention of demolishing the building and erecting a new Masonic Hall. Plans were approved for an arcade of shops with office above and with the Masonic Hall and dining room at the rear. The early 1930s were however years of financial recession and the project did not materialize and in 1935 the Hotel was again sold and it and the adjoining property either side was demolished. The site was purchased by Aldershot Borough Council in September 1936 but was not developed until 1953 when work was started on the building of the Public Library.
The building at the far end of High Street is the Royal Hotel (or Tilbury's Hotel) on the site owned by Messrs. Montague Burton Ltd in 1963.
On the right of the picture are the police houses and beyond them (hidden by trees) is the Police Station. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | Tilbury's Hotel shop public house police house Royal Camp Hotel Royal Hotel Aldershot Public Library High Street chemist Wellington Street police station | Temporal: | start=1920-01-01; end=1929-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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