3-052-372 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Albert Institute of Windsor and Eton, 1880. 'The Windsor and Eton Mechanics Institute has existed many years. The edifice, in Sheet-street, Windsor, of which an Illustration is given, has been named in memory of the lamented Prince Consort...The architects are Messrs. H. F. Bacon and E. Ingress Bell, of London. The building has a frontage of 70 ft., and is in the later Tudor style, harmonising with other Windsor and Eton buildings. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and mullions, and is roofed with reddish brown tiles. Mr. Woodbridge, of Maidenhead, was the builder. There are three storeys, comprising a large hall for lectures, meetings, and entertainments, with retiring-rooms, a library, reading-room, ladies' reading- room, museum, class-rooms, committee-rooms, and apartments for the keeper...The entrance-hall contains a memorial tablet, stating that the institute is designed "to aid the pursuit of knowledge and art so loved by him." Prince Christian, on behalf of his wife, Princess Helena, laid the memorial-stone in honour of her father, on March 28, last year'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.