2-982-397 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Music Saloon recently erected at Scarborough, 1858. 'The Scarborough Cliff Bridge Company have provided an additional attraction to the visitors of that beautiful watering-place by the erection of a handsome music saloon, which has just been completed from the designs of Sir Joseph Paxton and Mr. G. H. Stokes...The company...have also formed an extensive promenade or river esplanade, nearly a quarter of a mile in length, thus giving to the visitors and subscribers to the Spa an opportunity of inhaling the breezes of the German Ocean at the same time that they are listening to the strains of harmony proceeding from the interior of the saloon...Over the colonnade, which is raised so as to form a terrace...is a promenade extending round the south end and the side of the building facing the sea. This promenade is...supported on cast-iron columns with ornamental brackets...The external walls are built of Whitby stone...and inclose an area that, with the galleries, will accommodate 2000 persons...The orchestra...is capable of holding fifty performers; and underneath it are retiring-rooms for the conductor and musicians'. From "Illustrated London News", 1858.