Site Name Linlithgow, 88-94 High Street, Victoria Halls
Classification Cinema (20th Century),Hall (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 90, 92 High Street
Canmore ID 215056
Site Number NT07NW 239
NGR NT 00296 77159
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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Victoria Hall, Linlithgow
Records of the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network (SCRAN), Edinburgh, Scotland
1/1/1894
© Licensed by St Andrews University Library (project 229) (Records of the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network (SCRAN), Edinburgh, Scotland)
General view of High Street, Linlithgow, from W, showing Victoria Halls prior to dismantling of towers.
Photographs by H D Wyllie, photographer, Edinburgh, Scotland
c. 1927
© Courtesy of HES (Photographs by H D Wyllie, photographer, Edinburgh, Scotland)
Victoria Hall, 1889, J Russell Walker
Built out of a desire to show loyal regard for Her Majesty in the Jubilee year of her reign, it cost £2800, and was opened by the Earl of Rosebery. Wildly out of scale with the street of predominantly two- and three-storey town houses, what really mattered was the Germanic skyline of the corbelled turrets and pinnacles sliced off in the 1937 transformation by Alexander Cattanach to the Ritz Cinema, leaving battlements, machicolations, niches, the great window and round-headed door with rope-moulding.
Taken from "West Lothian: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Stuart Eydmann, Richard Jaques and Charles McKean, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
© Historic Environment Scotland. Scottish Charity No. SC045925
