Pelham Cottage

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Address	1824- 10 Marine Parade
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Located on Marine Parade and built around 200 years ago between 1812 and 1824 by Master 'Gunner' Ross (a Scotsmen by birth) who in the first decades of the 1800s was in charge of the Battery or 'Fort' that stood on East Parade. Upon completion of the cottage he was granted a 99 year lease. The son of Gunner Ross was the perhaps better-known Thomas Ross.

In 1840 Prince Louis Napoleon, Emperor of France, lodged here in 1840, arriving on the 31st of March under the assumed name of 'Col. Elliott'. In a strange twist of fate, his Empress stayed in the building next door, the Marine Hotel in Pelham Place, in the 1870s after her exile from France. By the early 1870s the building was being used as a Lodging House, and it would remain so until 1997 when it was converted back into a private residence.

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  Warm Baths with Pelham Cottage behind 1824