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The Victoria Street entrance to the Winter Gardens seen from the Promenade around 1978 before the view was partially obstructed by the building (right) of the Hounds Hill shopping precinct and the refurbishment of Marks and Spencers store. |
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The Winter Gardens, August 1998. From Church Street entrance can be gained to the Opera House shows and to the various bars and Empress Ballroom. |
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Left: the Pavilion is seldom used now, yet the asking price for staging events runs into thousands for even a short length.
Right: the Spanish Hall suite includes this bar on the ground floor level, mocked up
to look like the interior of a sailing galleon. |
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Left: Art deco decoration leads to Victoria St. and an amusement arcade. |
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The Olympia building took up the space left by the dismantling of the Big Wheel
in 1928. It housed a fairground and amusements before more recently being used as a children's
playground, market and exhibition hall and even a go-kart track. |
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It is seen here in the early 1980s just before the fairground was dismantled to make way for Jungle Jim's Adventure Park for kiddies. The heyday for the indoor fairground was in the 1960s when I remember riding a big wheel inside the building! |
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Some work is currently (August 1998) being undertaken on the upper landing
of the Olympia building. A balcony runs along the west side of the building. |
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