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This pre-dates the Aberystwyth Cliff Railway (Rheilfordd y Graig) (built in 1896), a funicular railway which goes up Constitution Hill ('Consti') on the headland at the far end of Victoria Terrace (the row of sea-front houses). But apart from some later quarrying into the hillside near where the railway is now, and of course the bathing machine and the people in the foreground, this scene has scarcely changed. Compare it with a similar shot used on the Cliff Railway website (www.aberystwythcliffrailway.co.uk/).

Brilliant Picture

Apart from the Cliff Railway not a lot had changed by 1962

Can anybody confirm the exact location of The Queen's Hotel in Aberystwyth? According to an historical reference, this location is now used for council offices.

Looks like the bottom of the path up to the cliff railway at end of Victoria Terrace?

There's a view of the plot here www.aberystwythguide.org.uk/history/to1900.shtml (see 1860 for photo, 1866 for reference to build and 1868 for a map, 1874 for good view relating to prom, This link www.rcahmw.gov.uk/media/189.pdf has the following:- Along the Promenade and north from the King’s Hall shops and flats, Nos. 32-4 Marine Terrace are stuccoed and marked on John Wood’s plan of 1834; the detail, however, is almost certainly all mid-Victorian. The north end group, Nos. 57-62, up to the former Queen’s Hotel, is of ca. 1868. On the shore, just south of the Queen’s Hotel, was the nineteenth-century Public Bath, built in 1810 and demolished in 1892. The former Queen’s Hotel, now Ceredigion County Offices and home of Ceredigion Archives, was designed by architects Hayward and Davis in a ‘Hôtel de Ville’ style and built by George Lumley of Aberystwyth for the Hafod Hotel Company or Mid Wales Hotel Company. It was opened in 1866. The plans were signed by Davis, and the hotel is contemporary with, though more stolid than, Hayward’s Duke of Cornwall hotel in Plymouth, lacking the virtuoso roofscape of the Plymouth building. The Cambrian News published visitor lists during the summer months and noted that the 83-bedroom hotel had special ground-floor provision for the infirm. Quartz and ore panels are retained beneath the ground-floor windows, and there is extravagant stained-glass on the mezzanine. Vestiges of former splendour remain in the Archives search room, with its acanthus plasterwork, mantelpiece and mirror, and in the former New Assembly rooms, now the ‘Cambrian Hall’, with ‘Q H’ on the iron spandrels. Post-1945 the hotel was converted by G. R. Bruce, County Architect, into the County Offices. I think it's County Offices Marine Terrace Aberystwyth Ceredigion SY23 2DE and I think this view is from what is now Albert Place? maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Aberystwyth&hl=en&ll=52....

National Science and Media Museum yep - it's the ex-archive building. unmissable still.

Thanks everyone... have updated the location here and will add to our records. - Emma