Llandrindod Wells, Temple Street 1949
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L145086
More about this scene
The Metropole Hotel, beloved as a modern day conferencing venue and purveyor of Victoriana, looks a little sleepy in this post-war photograph. Llandrindod Wells developed in the 19th century as a spa town for the Victorian traveller, and hotels like the Metropole flourished. The influx of visitors was curtailed by the First World War. Tourism was also hampered by the depression of the 1920s, and there was to be growing competition from the other seaside resorts after the Second World War which would diminish visitor numbers further. At the time this picture was taken the town was in something of a decline, therefore, but was determined to recover – or regenerate, as we say now – and in 1990 a plaque was unveiled that proclaimed the 'Revictorianisation of Llandrindod Wells Station'! The town has followed suit.
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