Winter Gardens (Great Yarmouth)

• Theatre ID
  1683
• Built / Converted
  1878
• Dates of use
  • 1903: continuing
• Current state
  Extant
• Current use
  Theatre
• Address
  Seafront at Wellington Pier, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England

Details

Not strictly a theatre or music hall but a seaside holiday pavilion, a place of relaxation, regularly used in the past for a variety of entertainments. The original Winter Gardens building in Torquay (q.v.) was transported by sea to Great Yarmouth, where it was re-erected on the sea front alongside Wellington Pier. Here it enjoyed the success that it failed to achieve in Torquay. It is an enjoyable iron and glass building with its roof rising to a pyramidal centre. The social conditions and industrial processes which made this kind of building popular and viable in their time will never recur and it is therefore a valuable survival that should be jealously safeguarded and maintained.

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• Events
  • 1903 Use: continuing
  • 1878 Design/Construction:
    • Watson & Harvey (built in Torquay) - Architect
  • 1903 Alteration: transported and re-erected on present site
    • Unknown - Architect
• Listings
  • Grade Not listed