Band playing outside Victoria Hotel Southport

Image Details

A Band practicing outside the Victoria Hotel Southport.

Photograph Date	c1890
Location	The Promenade, Southport
Photograph ID	NS_P95_89
Keywords	Band, Victoria Hotel, Victoria Swimming Baths, Southport
Comments	The Victoria Hotel was built in 1865 and demolished in 1971, today an apartment building of flats stands in its place. The Civil Service used the hotel during World War Two, and from 1942-47 the building became a Royal Naval Hospital.