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Description: | The illustration forms plate 16 of Philip Brannon. [1850]. The Picture of Southampton. The accompanying text (p. 53) says they "are built and fitted-up in a very chaste yet elegant style." We can see the main building with a ballroom 90 feet long with a handsome cardroom adjoining. A wide balcony is carried long the river-fronts of both. Below are rooms of equal extent, used for refreshments during intermissions and for meetings. They received their name on the occasion of the visit of Princess Victoria in 1830. Alternative contemporary names include the News Rooms, the Archery Rooms and the Royal Victoria Rooms. They were demolished in 1959.
The rooms open on to the Promenade and Archery Grounds (also called Spa Gardens), revived in 1830 when the Assembly Rooms were built. The grounds were used by the Southampton and New Forest Archery Club. The Chalybeate Spa is situated in the southern part of the grounds. One of the Spa fountains is illustrated.
In the distance we have a new-fangled train! | 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: | Royal Victoria Assembly Rooms News Rooms building sport leisure Archery Grounds recreation Royal Victoria Rooms Archery Rooms Victoria Spa archery Princess Victoria Promenade chalybeate spa Southampton and New Forest Archery Club spa | Temporal: | start=1850-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Philip Brannon | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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