Old Silverhill - The Tivoli Traditional Cache
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Old Silverhill - The Tivoli
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Part of the Silverhill History series. The cache is a film pot.
1835 - Just past the garage on Sedlescombe Road is a small group of low, stucco-covered houses which used to be known as Silverhill Terrace. Behind those houses lay the grounds of the Tivoli Hotel, licensed to William Matthew Edlin (Also listed in Pigot's 1840 Directory). This property covered over two acres and included, besides the hotel itself, elaborate stabling facilities, a skittle alley, a large dancing saloon, and the Tivoli Tea Gardens. We have no illustration, but judging by its ground plan the hotel must have been quite imposing, with either a loggia or terrace in front of it. The entire premises covered a triangular plot of land which today has a well known bank at its apex right by the Silverhill traffic lights. Some legal documents now in the museum show that the hotel property included a tiny patch of waste land bounded by main roads, which, in the course of time, became that famous landscape feature known as the traffic island at the Silverhill junction. Up until about 40 years ago it was known locally as 'the Trees'.
The hotel officially opened in 1836, the year before the young Victoria came to the throne. In early Victorian times, the Tivoli Hotel and Tea Gardens became an important entertainment centre. Carriage-folk must have driven out here for an afternoon's or an evening's pleasure, ordering their grooms to put up the horses in the stables whilst their masters and mistresses took afternoon tea or other refreshment indoors or al fresco under the trees, and enjoyed the various entertainments which were provided. The Tivoli Hotel, in fact, was the focal point of this particular district and it was so popular that it gave its name to a considerable area. Only the land immediately around the Presbyterian Church (now St. Luke’s), and to its north, was known as Silver Hill. The land southwards, as far as the Bohemia Road junction, was known as the Tivoli district.
In 1860 the Tivoli Hotel was sold, and its complex of buildings were all demolished. A new tavern, very much less imposing than the old one, was established down the Battle Road, where it still is today. The old licence was transferred there, and the new establishment carried on with the same name. The Tivoli Tea Gardens were revived there also, but they were the merest shadow of their former selves, confined to a small domestic garden.
Please also see the challenge "The Wall", which tells you more about what happened on the former grounds of the Tivoli Hotel.
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