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How did people travel in Bridgerton’s and Jane Austen’s Years? What did they take to make themselves comfortable? #Bridgerton #JaneAusten #GeorgianEra #RegencyEra #VictorianEra

Suzi Love Posted on June 17, 2025 by Suzi LoveJune 14, 2025
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How did people travel in Jane Austen’s Day? What did they take to make themselves comfortable? #Bridgerton #JaneAusten #GeorgianEra #RegencyEra #VictorianEra

Suzi Love Posted on June 12, 2025 by Suzi LoveJune 12, 2025

Travel and Luggage By Suzi Love History Notes Book 10. How did people travel in Jane Austen’s times. In past centuries? What did they take with them to make their long journeys easier? Travel by road, ship, canal, or railway all took a long time and had dangers so people learned to prepare. And then, in the nineteenth century, road improvements, inventions, and scientific developments made travel more pleasurable. books2read.com/SuziLoveTravel

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1855 ca. Napoleon III Grand Tour Souvenir Writer’s Box, Or Escritoire, French. #Victorian #Antiques #WritingBox

Suzi Love Posted on March 8, 2025 by Suzi LoveMarch 8, 2025

1855 ca. Napoleon III Grand Tour Influenced Travel Writer’s Box, Or Ecritoire, French. Double inkwell with rear stationery box, Gothic style brass accents and Grand Tour souvenir hand painted eglomise scene, the Palais de l’ Industrie from the 1855 Paris World Exposition! Figured veneers, ebonized edging, feet and pen tray and brass or bronze accents. via 1st Dibs 1stdibs.com

1855 ca. Napoleon III Grand Tour Influenced Travel Writer’s Box, Or Ecritoire, French. Double inkwell with rear stationery box, Gothic style brass accents and Grand Tour souvenir hand painted eglomise scene, the Palais de l’ Industrie from the 1855 Paris World Exposition! Figured veneers, ebonized edging, feet and pen tray and brass or bronze accents. via 1st Dibs. via 1st Dibs 1stdibs.com
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Are you following my Pinterest Boards? Images galore for history, books, Regency Era, fashion and writing. #RegencyEra #books #History #Pinterest #SuziLove

Suzi Love Posted on October 16, 2024 by Suzi LoveSeptember 16, 2024

Pinterest Boards By Suzi Love.

I love Pinterest for keeping thousands of historical images in some sort of order. And I love using Pinterest Boards as inspiration for my romance books. What about you? Do you use Pinterest for planning something, or just for fun? Need more hints for what to do with your boards and pins? Take a look at these fascinating articles on Pinterest. if you want even more Pinterest information and tips for becoming a power user, check out my Suzi Love Pinterest Boards

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18th Century Mid. Gentleman’s Toiletry Nécessaire Of Shagreen and Tortoiseshell, England. #GeorgianEra #Travel #Antiques

Suzi Love Posted on September 6, 2024 by Suzi LoveSeptember 2, 2024

18th Century Mid. Nécessaire, London, England. Wood, shagreen, silk, tortoiseshell with gold mounts, steel. Includes: pen knife, beard trimmer, scissors, bottles, paper cutter, 6 razors, hone, strop. via Metropolitan Museum New York City, U.S.A. metmuseum.org

Definition Shagreen: A type of rawhide, or rough untanned skin, originally made from the back of a horse or a wild donkey. In the 18th century, the skin of a shark or stingray also began to be called shagreen.

18th Century Mid. Nécessaire, London, England. Wood, shagreen, silk, tortoiseshell with gold mounts, steel. Includes: pen knife, beard trimmer, scissors, bottles, paper cutter, 6 razors, hone, strop. via suzilove.com and Metropolitan Museum New York City, U.S.A. metmuseum.org

 

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What did travelers take with them to make long journeys easier in Bridgerton and Jane Austen times? #Bridgerton #JaneAusten #RegencyEra #HistoricTravel

Suzi Love Posted on August 20, 2024 by Suzi LoveAugust 20, 2024

How did people travel in past centuries? What did they take with them to make their long journeys easier?  Travel by road, ship, canal, or railway all took a long time and had dangers so people learned to prepare. And then, in the nineteenth century, road improvements, inventions, and scientific developments made travel more pleasurable. Travel and Luggage By Suzi Love History Notes Book 10 books2read.com/SuziLoveTravel

Horse Power To Steam. Various alternatives to horse power were tested in London’s streets during the 19th century. Steam powered road engines and trams proved too heavy and damaged the roads. Stationary steam engines were used to haul trams attached to a cable but these were only really effective on hills that we too steep for horses. There were also experiments with trams driven gas engines and battery electric power. but was successfully developed. Petrol engines were still primitive and unreliable in the 1890s. In 1900 the reliable horse still dominated the streets of London but new technology was to revolutionize road transport.

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Road Travel In Jane Austen’s Times and Beyond. #Bridgerton #RegencyEra #JaneAusten BritishHistory #Travel

Suzi Love Posted on April 23, 2024 by Suzi LoveApril 21, 2024

For many centuries, road travel was the main way of getting from place to place, but roads were notoriously rutted and badly maintained, especially in Britain.  The Romans laid down the roads but they very poorly maintained through the 17th and 18th Centuries. It wasn’t until the 19th Century that improvements were made and rose travel opened up.

Roman Road Construction. Roman roads were constructed in layers. Rubble, slabs of stone, pebbles and gravel, smooth paving stones. Average width of road was 15 to 18 feet.

Roman Road Construction. Roman roads were constructed in layers. Rubble, slabs of stone, pebbles and gravel, smooth paving stones. Average width of road was 15 to 18 feet.
Roman Road Construction. Roman roads were constructed in layers. Rubble, slabs of stone, pebbles and gravel, smooth paving stones. Average width of road was 15 to 18 feet.

The dreadful condition of British roads caused great apprehension to all classes of travelers. Making a journey anywhere in the country was a big undertaking and often a gentleman composed his last will and testament before his departure.  Traveling in vehicles was only possible during the day or on the nights with very bright moonlight with few vehicles attempting road travel in winter and any travel on a Sunday was frowned upon. 

From: 1815 Journal of Tour of Great Britain by a French Tourist via Google Books (PD-180) ‘The roads very narrow, crooked, and dirty, continually up  and down. The  horses  we  get  are by  no  means  good,  and  draw  us  with  difficulty at the rate of five miles an  hour. We change carriages as well as horses  at every post house. They are on four wheels,  light and easy, and large  enough for  three  persons. The post boy sits on a cross bar of  wood between the front springs, or rather rests against  it.  This  is  safer,  and  more  convenient both for men and horse, but does not look well and, as far as we have seen,  English post horses and postillions do not  seem to deserve  their reputation.’ 

If you’ve read Jane Austen you’ll know that it was improper for a woman to travel alone, which meant that well-bred women were dependent on male relations to accompany them or else they had to take a maid in the carriage with her and be accompanied by a driver and footmen, which of course added to the cost of carriage travel. Any woman traveling by herself on a mail coach would be subject to speculation and probably malicious gossip.   

Mail coaches raced across these roads trying to stick to a time table but there were numerous accidents on roads that were often flooded, covered in snow, or up such steep hills that passengers had to alight and either push the coach or walk ups the hill. 

1790 Turnpike Gates In The Vicinity Of London, U.K.

1790 Turnpike Gates In The Vicinity Of London, U.K.

Tolls were collected on many roads in Britain but, because the turnpikes were mainly on land belonging to the nobility, money collected went into their personal coffers and very little went to road maintenance. This caused a continual push in parliament to make those who owned the land and collected the money responsible for repairing their roads, but these pleas fell on deaf ears as the lords in who sat in parliament had no interest in spending money to better travel for the common people. 

Description of Stage Coach Travel in England. via  1815  Journal Tour of Great Britain.  

“The gentlemen-coachmen, with half-a dozen great coats about them,—immense capes,—a large nosegay at the button-hole,—high mounted on an elevated seat,—with squared elbows,—a prodigious whip,  beautiful horses, four in hand, drive in a file to Salthill, a place about twenty miles from London, and return, stopping in the way at the several public-houses and gin-shops where stage-coachmen are in the habit of stopping for a dram, and for parcels and passengers on the top of the others as many as seventeen persons. These carriages are not suspended, but rest on steel springs, of a flattened oval shape, less easy than the old mode of leathern braces on springs. Some of these stage coaches carry their baggage below the level of the axletree.” 

1825 Observations on the Management of Turnpikes by John Loudon Mc Adam. Via Google Books (PD-150)
1825 Observations on the Management of Turnpikes by John Loudon Mc Adam. Via Google Books (PD-150)

1825 Observations on the Management of Turnpikes by John Loudon Mc Adam.  Via Google Books (PD-150)

John Loudon McAdam, born Ayr, Scotland. (1756 -1836)  He acted as a magistrate and assumed other civic roles including one as as trustee of the Ayrshire Turnpike in 1783, where he developed an interest in road construction and engineering, eventually becoming general surveyor for the Bristol Corporation in 1804. He wrote papers on the benefits of raising roads, making them from layers of stone and gravel, and giving priority to drainage. However, no roads were made this way until McAdam was put in charge of remaking the Bristol Turnpike in 1816, when he put his theories into practice and demonstrated macadamization, known as macadam. He made him numerous enemies on the Turnpike Trusts, who preferred to keep the money made from tolls rather than ploughing it back into road improvements but Macadam was soon in widespread use.

John Loudon McAdam (1756 – 1836), Scottish engineer and road-builder who started a new way of raising roads called ‘macadamization’. Via Wikimedia Commons.  

John Loudon McAdam (1756 - 1836), Scottish engineer and road-builder who started a new way of raising roads called 'macadamization'. Via Wikimedia Commons.
John Loudon McAdam (1756 – 1836), Scottish engineer and road-builder who started a new way of raising roads called ‘macadamization’. Via Wikimedia Commons.

1825  John McAdam Observation of English Roads.  “In a Country like England, inhabited by an ‘ intelligent people, well educated, active, and enterprising, where every hint at improvement is eagerly caught at and prosecuted with spirit, it is only possible to account for the apathy respecting Roads, and the want of exertion in prosecuting the means given for improvement, by showing that a strong counteracting principle exists in the defects of the Road Laws, and that although much want of encouragement has arisen from the prejudices of old practitioners— the great obstacle to success remains in the zealous opposition of those who profit by mismanagement in various ways.”  

  McAdam Report on Bristol District Roads, March, 1815.  

  •       Expenditure and Debt. 
  • • 1802 – 1812 only two roads maintained themselves. 
  • • Neither able to pay £100 of the debt they owed.  
  • • No other roads supported themselves at all. 
  • McAdam’s List of Reasons for Bad Roads. 
  • • Ignorance and incapacity of Surveyors
  • • Lack of any control over the lavish spending of Road Trusts
  • • Trust accounts being in an inexplicable mess
  • • No system or scientific mode of constructing roads
  • • Every part of a road being differently formed
  • • Each road managed by a different person
  • • Each area managed by a different Turnpike Trust
  • • Winford Road Trust produced no account books 

McAdam informed the Road Trusts that smooth roads were the most useful and lasted longer because carriages do little damage to a smooth road because the horses exert themselves less and the carriages do not rock and roll.  

Unfortunately for travelers in the late 1700s and early 1800s, the smoothness of a road surface depended on the preparation and distribution of the road building materials used and was therefore entirely in the hands of each individual road-maker. In 1816, Mc Adam reported to the Bristol District the difference in revenue if roads were built of good material, regularly maintained, and if the finances of Turnpike Trusts were under someone’s control.  

1823 ‘Construction of a Macadam Road’ by Carl Rakeman. Via Wikimedia Commons.   

1823 'Construction of a Macadam Road' by Carl Rakeman. Via Wikimedia Commons.
1823 ‘Construction of a Macadam Road’ by Carl Rakeman. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Travel on these roads was also dangerous as highwaymen stopped and robbed anyone who came along. Male or female made no difference to highwaymen in Britain, nor to the bushrangers in Australia or the gangs on American roads, as they robbed indiscriminately and often with violence.   

By the end of the 18th Century, however, travel as a pleasurable pursuit came into vogue and numerous guides were written for traveling all over the British Isles as well as on the continent. 

The 1812  ‘Tour Of Dr. Syntax’ was an ironic look at the new obsession of travel and travel guides. Before he set off for the Lake District, Dr. Syntax said to his wife, “You well know what my pen can do, and I’ll employ my pencil too: I’ll ride and write, and sketch and print and thus create a real mint: I’ll prose it here, I’ll verse it there and picturesque it everywhere. I’ll do what all have done before; I think I shall and somewhat more.” 

 Georgian and Regency travelers were envious of aristocrats, even if they were of the nobility themselves, and loved to view all the British Great Houses. 

A gentleman and his wife would even drive up to the front door of a mansion house and demand to be given a tour of the house.  If they weren’t admitted, they would write in their journals of the inhospitable nature of the people on a particular estate. Thomas Pennant, William Mavor, and others, loved to write about these bad experiences and have them published.  Paterson’s British Itinerary, a travel guide had 17 editions between 1785-1832 – it outlined the roads used by the stage and mail coaches, the tolls, the bridges, etc.   

This new touring craze created an industry of hospitality that encompassed more than simple mail coach trips from place to place, and more than a noble family traveling from their country seat to the Metropolis of London for parliamentary sittings. Inns had to improve the quality of the linens and meals if they wanted to attract the wealthier traveling class. Before that, many travelers carried their own linen, crockery, glasses, and utensils, as they didn’t trust the hygiene or standards of country inns.  

Travel became something written about by poets with many sonnets written to the beauty of places like the Lake District in England, or the pyramids in Egypt. Inns became cleaner and more respectable so they could welcome travelers of the upper classes. This also meant that women could travel more as roads were slowly improved from rutted tracks that were only suitable for horse riding to roads that family coaches could travel along, though these roads were still narrow and subject to extremes of weather, such as flooding.  The race was on to travel from places like London to Edinburgh in the fastest possible time. 

1817-1875 ca. Vehicles. From: Pierre Larousse’s World Dictionary Of the 19th Century. 

1817-1875 ca. Vehicles. From: Pierre Larousse's World Dictionary Of the 19th Century.

1920-1922 ca.  Automobiles.

1920-1922 ca. Automobiles.

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Jane Austen, the Bridgerton family and contemporaries used boxes of metal, leather, or silks, decorated with jewels and engraving. #Bridgerton #Travel #JaneAusten #RegencyEra #Antiques

Suzi Love Posted on February 1, 2024 by Suzi LoveDecember 30, 2023

Craftsmen created containers of precious metals, leather, and silks and decorated them with jewels and engraving. Jane Austen and her contemporaries would have used writing boxes, linen boxes when travelling, boxes to hold their food and drink supplies while traveling by carriage, and decorative boxes to keep letters, ribbons, gloves, hairpins etc. Boxes, Cases, and Necessaires By Suzi Love, History Notes Book 11. books2read.com/suziloveBoxesCases.

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Jane Austen, the Bridgerton family and contemporaries used boxes of metal, leather, or silks, decorated with jewels and engraving. #Bridgerton #Travel #JaneAusten #RegencyEra #Antiques

Suzi Love Posted on January 2, 2024 by Suzi LoveDecember 30, 2023

Craftsmen created containers of precious metals, leather, and silks and decorated them with jewels and engraving. Jane Austen and her contemporaries would have used writing boxes, linen boxes when travelling, boxes to hold their food and drink supplies while traveling by carriage, and decorative boxes to keep letters, ribbons, gloves, hairpins etc. Boxes, Cases, and Necessaires By Suzi Love, History Notes Book 11. books2read.com/suziloveBoxesCases.

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Cheltenham, Spa Town In Jane Austen and Bridgerton Years. #janeAusten #Bridgerton #RegencyEra #HistoricTravel #BritishHistory #England

Suzi Love Posted on September 27, 2023 by Suzi LoveAugust 15, 2023

Cheltenham Spa, England: Pittville Pump Room: Cheltenham is a famous spa town within easy reach of the Cotswolds in in the county of Gloucestershire, England, and was a popular Georgian and Regency spa town where one could rest and recuperate. It became famous as a Spa town following the discovery of mineral springs in 1716, and claims to be the most complete Regency town in Britain. The Pittville Pump Room is an elegant Grade 1 listed Regency building and perhaps the most famous example of Regency architecture in Cheltenham, despite the town being filled Regency buildings. The Pittville Pump Room was the last and largest of the spa buildings to be built in Cheltenham.

Location: The Pump Room stands at one end of Pittville Park,  about two miles from Cheltenham’s town centre, and is a monument to more than 100 years of fame which Cheltenham enjoyed as a Spa town. The building is set in beautiful parkland and is surrounded on three sides by a grand colonnade of ionic columns opening into the impressive hall with its domed ceiling and original crystal chandeliers. The park has extensive open lawns surrounded by trees and ornate bridges and pathways lead around the lakes where swans and ducks swim.

Cheltenham Tour Map. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Cheltenham Tour Map. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.

History: The waters were first discovered in around 1715 on a site now occupied by Cheltenham Ladies’ College. In 1788 George III and Queen Charlotte came to take the waters and it was their visit that set the seal on Cheltenham’s future. After a visit to Cheltenham, a banker named Joseph Pitt commissioned the architect John Forbes to design a pump room that was to act as the centrepiece to his vision of a town to rival Cheltenham – a town he would call Pittville.

The foundation stone was laid on 4 May 1825 and the work completed in 1830. The laying of the foundation was celebrated by the ringing of the bells, firing of cannons, as well as a Masonic Procession which set out from the Masonic Hall in Portland Street. In the evening banquets were held at two of the town’s hotels and grand fireworks display was to be seen at Pittville. The building took five years to complete. Following disagreements between Forbes and the builder, a second architect, John Clement Mead from London, was employed to finish the interior. He designed the elaborate stoves which heated the building. The original official opening on 6th July, 1830 was postponed until 20th July, 1830 because of the death of George IV. A grand public breakfast and ball marked the occasion.

1830 Pittville Park. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
1830 Pittville Park. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
1831 Pittville Park. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
1831 Pittville Park. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
1834 View Of Pump House Outside Cheltenham. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
1834 View Of Pump House Outside Cheltenham. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Poster: Pittville Pump Room latest and grandest water spas built in Cheltenham.
Poster: Pittville Pump Room latest and grandest water spas built in Cheltenham.
1820s Early Joseph Pitt, Banker. Commissioned architect John Forbes to design a pump room as centrepiece to his vision of a town to rival Cheltenham, a town he would call Pittville.
1820s Early Joseph Pitt, Banker. Commissioned architect John Forbes to design a pump room as centrepiece to his vision of a town to rival Cheltenham, a town he would call Pittville.
1825 May Foundation Stone laid for Pittville. 1830 Pittville completed.Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
1825 May Foundation Stone laid for Pittville. 1830 Pittville completed.Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.

Building the Pump Room: The total cost of the project was over £40,000, and incredible price for that time. Like many bankers of his time, Pitt ran into financial difficulties, the building went out of favour and was sold in 1890 to the Borough of Cheltenham for £5,400, a fraction of the original cost. The building is decorated in Ionic style and the great hail reflects the genius of John Forbes with the spa opening on the north side and the gallery and dome surmounting the hall.

The grand building is 92 feet long by 43 feet, surrounded by a colonnade 13 feet wide the roof of which are supported by fluted Ionic columns 22 feet high. Along the facade stand three figures representing Aesculapius, Hygeia and Hippocrates, originally made by Lucius Gahagan of Bath. In its design, the building combines elements of both Greek and Roman architecture. It was modelled on the temple on Illisus in Athens, the engravings of which appeared in Stuart and Revett’s Antiquities of Athens (1762).

The inspiration for the dome probably came from the Panthenon in Rome. A large ballroom was situated on the ground floor where even today visitors can attend music concerts, dances and other events. With a capacity of 400 and remarkable acoustics, it is Cheltenham’s finest concert venue. The spa with an oval pump room to the rear of the building are still there for the visitors to enjoy, available from a marbled pump and counter. A reading room, library and billiard room occupied the first floor.

Third well pumped surface water and housed the many pipes running the other wells. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Third well pumped surface water and housed the many pipes running the other wells. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Pump, Or Tabernacle, Opened in 1830. Dispensed unique salty mineral rich water. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Pump, Or Tabernacle, Opened in 1830. Dispensed unique salty mineral rich water. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Looking down the well. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Looking down the well. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Two wells with side tunnels supplied spa water. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Two wells with side tunnels supplied spa water. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Diagram of the pump.Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Diagram of the pump.Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
View from pump house upper level.
View from pump house upper level.
Side View. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Side View. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Rotunda. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Rotunda. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Rotunda and exterior of building. Rotunda. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Rotunda and exterior of building. Rotunda. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Ionic columns surrounding the Pump House. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Ionic columns surrounding the Pump House. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Exterior with Ionic columns. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Exterior with Ionic columns. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Exterior Brick and Windows. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Exterior Brick and Windows. Pittville Pump House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.

Fashion History: “Cheltenham will be the summer village of all that is fashionable and all that is dignified; the residence of the royal ” family being a thing quite new so far from the metropolis . Already we hear of nothing but Cheltenham modes — the Cheltenham cap — the Cheltenham bonnets — the Cheltenham buttons — the Cheltenham buckles , in short all the fashions are completely Cheltenhamized throughout Great Britain.” via 1826 Griffith’s New Historical Description of Cheltenham and Its Vicinity.

Second World War: The Pump Room housed British and American army personnel, when dry rot was allowed to creep through the structure unchecked, and only after the war was the full extent of the damage revealed. Plaster, brickwork, timber: nearly everything had been affected. The dome was only held in position by a shell of plaster; the timber had been eaten away by the fungus.

The Duke of Wellington: Public subscriptions carne to the rescue, which were accompanied by Public Works grants and Historic Building Council contributions. A total of £43,250 was raised and by 1960 the building was partially restored to its former glory and reopened in 1960 by the Duke of Wellington. The old card room had been replaced by a new foyer, cloakrooms and second staircase, and heating and new lighting were in stalled.

Recent History: In 2003, the old Victorian wells were leaking and allowing ground water to dilute the natural mineral water so Pittville Pump Room no longer qualified as a spa and the well was shut down. The spa was then repaired and reopened so visitors can taste the only alkaline spa water in the country. The Pump Room’s old maple-strip floor was replaced with a stunning English oak floor, better flooring found for the ball room, and old pipes replaced. Nowadays the Pittville Pump Room is in use most days of the year for private and public functions and is one of Cheltenham’s most popular wedding venues. The venue is also used frequently by orchestras, choirs and chamber groups because it has stunning acoustics.

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