Digital Images Archive
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No.21 Hants 83.11.15
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This is a WD-only version of Hants 83.11.15.
At first sight it seems to record little more than the elegant planting along Pembroke Road and the other avenues converging on the Clarence Monument. However, back in 1861 the Clarence Monument was already there but the road to it led through King William's Gate and the King's Ravelin. The ravelin had moats all around it, so one passed over one bridge, round a sharp bend, and then over another bridge. Even in 1874 the road followed that route. So Pembroke Road is not just wider but more direct. Opposite the Pier Hotel one sees the New Guard House. The old Guard House was the building in red, isolated and unnamed, standing south of Pembroke Road. It previously stood in the middle of King's Ravelin; it has been redrawn because the ravelin has been deleted with a paste-over. Further south is the King's Bastion, the point where demolition had stopped.
The Pier Hotel had been Clarence Lodge in 1861 and the black part of its boundary wall goes back to that date. By 1874 Clarence Lodge had been replaced by the hotel. Perhaps as part of that property deal, a sliver of land had been taken for road widening, and that is why a portion of the wall is in red.