The Imperial Hydro (later Majestic) Hotel St Anne’s on the Sea

ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS – The company has been formed to acquire for an under-lease term of 999 years from 1 March 1874 a plot of land containing 8,756 square yards, at a yearly rental of £87, bounded by Clifton Drive North, St Anne’s Road West, and the North Promenade, St Anne’s on the Sea, and to erect and equip thereon the building to be known as “The Imperial Hydro Hotel, St Anne’s-on-the-Sea.”

The site acquired by the Company was at the corner of St Anne’s Road West and the North Promenade, close to the pier and within easy distance of the railway station and golf links. It had been set apart for an hotel by the St Anne’s Building and Land Company and had a frontage of 364 feet towards the North Promenade and 226 feet towards St Anne’s Road West.  The proposed hotel comprised a splendid reception hall; a central hall or lounge; large dining hall with seating for about 250 persons at separate tables; private sitting rooms, reading and writing rooms, drawing room; billiard room and smoke-room; ballroom and theatre with a stage and three dressing rooms; also a complete suite of hydropathic baths. There was to be bedroom accommodation for about 250 guests. Separate lavatories, wc’s and bathrooms were provided on each floor.A special feature was the roof garden on the flat roof with extensive views over land and sea. There was also to be a sea-water swimming bath, 36 feet by 24 feet, which was to be opened to the public during parts of the day

The hotel opened in 1910 and was re-named the Majestic in 1920. It was demolished in 1975

Reference           Manchester Guardian 12 February 1908 page 6 - prospectus