A Stunning Venue – public and private (part 1)

Pittville Pump Room has hosted a varied succession of events throughout its lifetime. From balls, Royal receptions, race launches, fetes and fireworks events to horticultural shows, tightrope walkers and menageries hosting improbable sights. One eyewitness account from the 1800s recorded seeing ‘a stupendous elephant swimming in the Pittville Lake’.