St. Leonards Assembly Rooms

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Originally constructed as assembly rooms for the new town of St Leonards in 1829. In 1835, it is described by Ross as being 60 feet in length, with a billiard hall on the east side with rooms for playing cards on the other. In 1886 there is record of a contractor named Peter Jenkins, who had constructed many houses in St Leonards who bought what was the Assembly Rooms and installed in the basement a small swimming pool with a set of private baths set into the floor. These Victorian baths did not last long and came to an end in 1904.

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  St Leonards Assembly Rooms

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  Royal-Victoria-Hotel-in-1839.

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  Royal Victoria Hotel, Marina c1840