Little Venice Rhyl a Mystery or Myth Below Queens Market? Little Venice Rhyl a myth & distant memory to some and a code of silence to others! Updates to the Little Venice Rhyl and Queens Market article.
This article was originally written on the 1. November after many months of working on getting information on Little Venice. As this is an ongoing project the article is now a page which will be updated as time goes by with information on Little Venice Rhyl, so please make sure you keep popping back.
Since the original post, people have searched for information on Little Venice Rhyl, so now, hopefully I can bring you all the news and updates as I get them with regards to the Queens Palace and for the underwater Victorian waterways. Big thanks to everyone that has helped me out with the quest for knowledge and specially to Glenn and Stuey for putting up with my questions and for supplying me with info and images etc. Not forgetting Rhyl Library for the photocopies of 1. The Rhyl Palace brochure.
Table of contents. Little Venice Rhyl. A bit of an enigma. Not just a Rhyl myth. The Queens Palace.
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Queens Could Have Been So Much More. News Article From The Rhyl Record and Advertiser Nov 2. Re- Opening of Queens Palace. Little Venice Rhyl a bit of an enigma! Some people think that Little Venice in Rhyl is all a myth and that it is just something that is mentioned about Rhyl just to add a little bit of mystery to Rhyl.
But I’m here to tell you that it did exist in one of Rhyl’s oldest remaining Victorian buildings. My journey for information and the discovery of the mythical river system started as a project to learn more about “Old Rhyl“, not just what can be seen, but also the hidden Rhyl and buildings that have been lost from the town forever.
I started off sometime back posting about a more recent “hangout” after being inspired by Sara Sugarman, that place was The Bistro, after talking to many people and learning more about the town, I came across the gossip and hearsay of “Little Venice“, a place I vaguely remember from the 8. So I put the call out on Twitter and Facebook about information on the elusive Victorian attraction and if anyone could help.
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Facebook never fails me when it comes to asking for help, specially when I ask on a group I belong to called “We Love Old Rhyl“, which has a great group of people who are always willing to help when they can and even supply photographs when available. Little Venice Not Just A Rhyl Myth. As I mentioned earlier, Little Venice has been widely regarded as a myth, something that has been mentioned in whispers and looking in to the place has been a bit of a tough one, investigating it has been a bit of a challenge and getting photographs of how it was has been an almost impossible task. Starting above with The Queens Palace. The Queens Palace was constructed in 1. Queens, no one really knows how the fire started, but it was mentioned that it could have started in the underground rivers, Little Venice!
The fire had destroyed the Palace ballroom and theatre, the dome, the shops on either side of the Queen’s Arcade, and the roof gardens above them (which gave a sheltered promenade which was quarter of a mile in length), and the whole of the fa. And a portion of the front of the hotel remained and a further end of the Arcade with its frontage to Sussex Street. Rhyl Queen’s Palace – Ballroom by .
During the week the turn- stiles have rattled incessantly, especially that one which gives admittance to “Venice” by which name the huge and hitherto apparently useless basement of the Palace is new known, and deservedly so, as all who have visited this wonderland will readily acknowledge. As we stated in a previous I issue, when the work was on the point of completion, the transformation is a most elaborate and fairy- like one. Not only are the walls of the building adorned, at great expense, with faithful likenesses of present- day Venetian scenes, but even the eight double arches that span the walled- in water, on which gondolas are manned by picturesquely attired Italians, are treated in a style that should satisfy the most fastidious tastes. Even the ceiling is star spangled, so that at night when the 1. It will thus be seen that for twopence (the price of admission to “Venice“) and an additional charge of only one penny for a trip in a gondola one gets a feast that ought to gratify the wildest imaginations of any- thing obtainable at anything like the price, for we must not forget to mention that an up to date exhibition of waxworks is included in the first twopennyworth. Another great feature is the electric lift to the dome and tower, which are crowned with a crow’s nest,” from which a magnificent view of the sea and country is obtained at all points of the compass.
We have dealt in another column at some length with Monday’s programme at the Palace, and we would also place on record that during the week there have been several capital turns each evening, with intervals, as usual, for dancing. The artistes include De. Valzo and his box trick performance, Campkin, the tramp cyclist; Marie Feldon, the twentieth century girl Dot Bolino, soprano comedienne and Professor Mc. Mahon. There is also a novel cycle performance and an exhibition of Royal American Bioscope pictures. Source – Welsh Newspapers Online (April 1. Rhyl Journal)The Mysterious Rhyl Underwater World of Little Venice.
The main problem with Little Venice is getting access to it, I remember back in the 8. I attempted to venture down these I was caught! Entrance Arcade – Queens Market, Rhyl by . Now these stairs are the ones that I found back in the 8. This section could have been the section that was flooded to accommodate the attraction.
Looking at the picture of Little Venice in the 1. A glimpse of Little Venice Rhyl in the form of a postcard from around the early 1. Then there is the section that says “Void”, this could also have been the possible location as it is quite huge and is enclosed, but at the time of these plans, it seems to become completely lacking of entry ways in or out. Little Venice Not As Big As Some Would Say.
But you can plainly see from the blueprints, there is no evidence of any waterway stretching from the enclosure of Queens. The idea of the waterway being so big is quite frankly a fantasy, in my humble opinion, the ride would take you from one side to the other, with a turn around and back again, very much like a “tunnel of love” would be at a fairground. So the evidence clearly shows the size, no doubts about the size now. Queens Could Have Been So Much More. As I mentioned earlier there were other ideas for Queens and it’s development, I was lucky see some amazing plans for what could have been a truly amazing entertainment venue in Rhyl. In 1. 92. 0 the plans were put in for a Picture House, which would have been in the Golden Days of Cinema and again in 1. I can say is if one of these had gone through they would have been amazing.
Don’t worry, I have some pictures on the way. News Article From The Rhyl Record and Advertiser Nov 2. THE QUEEN’S PALACE. We understand that in consequence of the success of the entertainments at the Queen’s Palace, the management have decided to continue them throughout the year round without any break, unless it be for a short period while further improvements, additions and alterations are being carried out. The entertainments will be of a similar character to those given since the opening, though there will be occasional breaks including one of a week in January, when Mr Harry Collins will stage a pantomime. Those who remember the very excellent pantomime which Mr Collins introduced to the town last season, will look forward with pleasurable anticipation to his production at the Queen’s Palace, where with the stage accommodation and scenic effects at his disposal he will be able to stage the piece very effective y. Before next season the spacious basement of the Palace will be converted into Venice.
A sheet of water will cover the whole area, and this will be bridged over at points after the fashion of a Venetian street scene, and studded with real gondolas, which will take passengers around the scene. The walls and ceilings will be decorated with artistic pictorial representations of Venetian scenery and mirrors and other means of hightening the effect and lending realism to the conception will be extensively resorted to. A stage will be erected for the discoursing of music, and shooting galleries, and other forms of amusement will be provided so as to ensure ample variety and constant entertainment for the visitors of this subterranean Venice. The dome is now fast approaching completion, and next season will undoubtedly pro, a source of great attraction. It is surmounted by a crow’s nest, and from this high altitude there will be commanded a panoramic view of hill and dale, of mountain and sea, of unsurpassed beauty and grandeur.
The tower will be fitted with an electric lift in which the ascent will be made. The interior of the spacious glass dome which forms such a fitting and graceful finish to the architecture of the building will be so treated as to I represent an old English village. From here also a superb panoramic view of the surrounding country will be commanded, and there is little doubt that it will add still another feature to the many attractions of the Palace. The Arcade is now practically completed, and with seven exceptions the whole of the thirty imposing shops are let, mostly to local tradesmen. Indeed the probability is that by now the whole of the shops are let, for when the information was supplied to our representative Mr Doughty stated that he had several other applications which would be considered in a day or two. Last Sunday night the Arcade was thrown open to the public.