The Rev. D. Moore, in a note to his sermon “Our Sabbaths in Danger,”
quotes the following statement, supplied to him from a source which may
be “implicitly relied on.”—“There are no less than seven public-houses
now in course of erection, or about to be erected, near the Crystal
Palace, one of which is to cost £30,000, and to contain stabling for 500
horses, tea-gardens, &c. The road leading from Anerly is literally
thronged from ten to six o’clock every Sunday, and persons of all grades
are to be seen there, some selling by the way side, others gambling; and
in the roads on either sides of the way scenes of the most revolting
nature are taking place in open daylight.
“A labouring man, some two or three months since, took a small cottage
and large garden in the Anerly road, and opened it as a beer-house and
tea-gardens, and he now has from _four to five hundred persons_ in his
ground on the Sabbath day. Many more particulars of a like kind might be
added, but with great difficulty, owing to the _secrecy observed by all
parties_.”