The Victoria Hotel c1897. designed by Lancashire architect John Dent Harker. It was probably named in honour of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee (1897) as it was constructed about this date. This picture is from Lytham St.Anne's - A Pictorial History by Robert Haley.

The Victoria Hotel viewed from the tower of the Parish Church c1904. The hotel was built on Common Side Lane which shortly afterwards was renamed Church Road. This picture is from Images of England - Lytham St Annes by Robert Haley.

Until the 1870s the area had been part of the West End of Lytham Manor. It was an isolated farming community with a handful of farms and cottages along Common Side Lane. Inland were ditches and fields; seawards was Lytham Common and sand dunes.

 From 1875 the new town of St.Annes was developed and a great deal of working-class housing was erected along Clifton St (Curzon Rd), Church Road and Nelson St (Holmfield Rd).

Church Road, St.Annes c1905. A view taken from the side of the Parish Church, looking towards the Victoria Hotel and Wesleyan Church.

The Victoria Hotel Horse-Drawn Charabanc c1908. For the price of one shilling (5p) visitors were taken on a circular tour of St.Annes, Fairhaven Lake & Ansdell.

The Victoria Hotel viewed from St.Alban's Road c1908. This picture is from Images of England - Lytham St Annes by Robert Haley. At this time Hugh Ashton was the landlord. Other landlords include James Brougham (1920s) and Walter Lines (1930s).

To the rear of the hotel were stables and in the 1930s Tyler's Riding School was based there. It was later known as the Victoria Riding School which continued until the 1980s.

 Lytham St Annes Civic Society Photos

In 2010 McCarthy and Stone submitted plans to build a four-storey apartment block on the site of The Victoria Hotel. There would be 40 one and two-bedroom apartments, gardens and car parking.

Objectors formed a protest group to campaign against the demolition of the pub and handed a 700-signature petition in to Fylde Council.

Public outcry saves pub from bulldozer.

Blackpool Gazette Article
16 December 2011