directors were behindhand with their rates. At a meeting of the
shareholders Jullien complained bitterly that, though a profit of £1,000
had been made, he was given no money to pay his band. He had lost—as he
put it—£2,000 by his unpaid salary, and £2,000 by his worthless shares.
In 1859 there was a more modest orchestra of sixty, and the Surrey
Gardens Choir performed madrigals; but in the background there were
proceedings in Chancery, and in April the gardens—now described as of ten
acres—were advertised for sale. In June, 1861, the music-hall was burnt
out, and though in the following year a picture of the Bay of Naples was
offered to the public, the life of the gardens was wellnigh extinct. It
happened that at this time (1862) the authorities of St. Thomas’s
Hospital had to leave their old home in Southwark, and needed a temporary
resting-place. They had the music-hall rebuilt, and used it for the
reception of patients until 1871. Then the new hospital was opened on
the Albert Embankment.
The gardens nearly outlasted the seventies. In May 1872, an enterprising
lessee, Frederick Strange, who had been manager and proprietor of the
Alhambra, opened the gardens for concerts, operettas, and ballets. {90}
The grounds had become a wilderness, and had to be considerably
‘improved.’ The theatre was the old music-hall remodelled. At the
opening concert Mme. Marimon and other members of Mapleson’s opera
company appeared, and Sims Reeves and Mme. Patey sang at one of the
ballad concerts. But in 1873 the entertainments were fashioned on those
of Cremorne. There were Derby and Oaks ‘Festivals’ in May, and that
unfortunate nobleman, ‘Sir Roger Tichborne,’ was announced to appear in
the theatre. In September there was a gala with ‘50,000’ lamps for the
benefit of Robert Duffell, who had for half a century illumined Vauxhall,
Cremorne, and smaller public gardens.
In 1875 the lessees were Messrs. Poole and Stacey, who produced comic
opera and ballet. Captain Boyton this year exhibited the life-saving
apparatus with which he had crossed the Channel. In 1877 a new manager
or lessee, John Reeves, offered for a sixpenny admission an open-air
dancing-platform, a variety entertainment, and the sight of a Canadian ox
of 400 stone. The last regular entertainment took place in the theatre
on August 14, 1877.
In March, 1878, the theatre was hired for a single performance, a boxing
match between Rooke and Harrington. A rough company of 800 people were
got together, and the prize, a splendid silver vase valued at £100, was
ostentatiously displayed to the audience. An old ‘Surrey’ waiter who was
present is said to have recognized in this noble trophy a capacious
_leaden_ vessel which had stood on one of the refreshment counters in the
water-drinking days of the Zoological Gardens. {91}
[This account is mainly based on a large collection of bills, views, and
newspaper matter formed by the writer. Some interesting details in
Bishop H. H. Montgomery’s _Kennington_, 1889, chap. xi.; Walford, _Old
and New London_; Blanchard in _Era Almanack_, 1871, p. 4; Blanchard’s
_Life_.
Views: Plan of the gardens prefixed to the _Companion to the Royal Surrey
Gardens_, third edition, 1835. Lithograph published by Havell in 1832
(W.). Lithograph by Alvey, 1836. Views in the _Mirror_, 1832.
_Illustrated London News_, July 19, 1856 (view of gardens in 1856). The
annual panoramas were regularly pictured in the _Mirror_ and the
_Illustrated London News_.]
LIST OF MINOR GARDENS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
IN this list, which, though long, is not exhaustive, it is not
practicable to do more than indicate the site and the _approximate_ date.
Many of these places were only small gardens attached to public-houses.
I.—CHELSEA, PIMLICO, ETC.
BLACK LION, Chelsea.—Church Street (formerly Church Lane), at the corner
of Paulton Street (_circa_ 1820).
ADMIRAL KEPPEL, Chelsea.—Now No. 77, Fulham Road. The gardens lay
between Marlborough Road and Keppel Street, and extended to Albert Place
at the back of the tavern (1790–1856).
MARLBOROUGH (afterwards WELLINGTON) GARDENS and Cricket Ground.—West end
of Cadogan Street. The gardens and cricket field lay between Cadogan
Street and Draycott Place, and part of the Guinness Trust Buildings in
Marlborough Road are now on the site (_circa_ 1794–1850, or later).
SIX BELLS, NO. 197, King’s Road, Chelsea.—Still preserves a small garden
and bowling-green. (View in P. Norman’s _London Vanished_, etc., p.
264.)
THE SWAN, Chelsea.—Old Swan House (No. 20, Embankment Gardens) is on part
of the site (_circa_ 1780–1873). (Blunt’s _Chelsea_, p. 116; _cf._ p.
119 for the older Swan (_circa_ 1780) in Chelsea.)
KENSINGTON.—Several small gardens: The King’s Arms (early nineteenth
century); White Horse to _circa_ 1850 (now Holland Arms, No. 1, St. Mary
Abbot’s Terrace).
HOOP AND TOY, Brompton.—Now No. 34, Thurloe Place, S.W. (_circa_
1833–1860).
KING’S ARMS, Pimlico.—Now No. 68, Ranelagh Road. The gardens were near
the river, between Claverton Street and Ranelagh Road (_circa_
1820–1850).
NEW RANELAGH GARDENS, Pimlico.—See _supra_, p. 28.
THE GUN, Pimlico.—The Buckingham Palace Hotel on part of the site
(_circa_ 1830–1857).
THE MONSTER, St. George’s Row, Pimlico.—Now 2, Sutherland Terrace
(_circa_ 1820–1830 and later).
THE FLASK, Ebury Square.—See _supra_, p. 29.
ORANGE TEA-GARDENS, Pimlico (with amateur theatre).—St. Barnabas’ Schools
in Church Street, Pimlico Road, on site (_circa_ 1830–1845). These
gardens were not identical (as incorrectly stated in _London
Pleasure-Gardens_, p. 219) with those of Strombolo House, which is still
standing, and now numbered 77 and 79, Pimlico Road.
UNION TEA-GARDENS.—Now No. 11, Pimlico Road, at the corner of Ranelagh
Grove (_circa_ 1802–1846).
II.—BAYSWATER, ETC.
BOTT’S ARCHERY TAVERN, Bayswater Road.—Now No. 4, Bathurst Street.
Bathurst Street is on the site of the bowling-green (_circa_ 1834–1839).
PRINCESS ROYAL, Bayswater.—See _supra_, p. 38.
NEW BAGNIGGE WELLS (or ‘CROWN’ GARDENS), Bayswater Road.—Now Crown Hotel
(_circa_ 1819–1840).
BAYSWATER TEA-GARDENS, Lancaster Gate.—_Circa_ 1790–1854. (See _London
Pleasure-Gardens_, p. 117.)
THE MAZE, Harrow Road.—Now No. 6, Chichester Place, Harrow Road (_circa_
1842).
RANELAGH GARDENS, Paddington.—_Circa_ 1846.
JACKSON’S RACING GROUNDS AND HUNTING-SCHOOL, Westbourne Green
(1837–1840).
THE PLOUGH, Notting Hill.—Now No. 144, High Street, Notting Hill (_circa_
1834).
YORKSHIRE STINGO, Marylebone Road.—_Circa_ 1770–1848. (See _London
Pleasure-Gardens_, p. 115.)
III.—NORTH LONDON.
For White Conduit House, Belvidere Tavern, Canonbury Tavern, Hornsey Wood
House, Highbury Barn, and Kentish Town Assembly-House, see _London
Pleasure-Gardens_, Group III.
THATCHED HOUSE, Islington.—Now No. 119, Essex Road (_circa_ 1810–1830, or
later).
THE THREE COMPASSES, Hornsey, by the New River (1824 and later). (Hone,
_Every-Day Book_, ii., p. 1311; Sherington, _Story of Hornsey_, p. 43;
Thorne’s _Environs_, _s.v._ Hornsey.)
BULL AND GATE.—Now No. 389, Kentish Town Road (1801 and later).
CASTLE.—Now No. 147, Kentish Town Road. Garden site in Castle Place and
Castle Terrace (_circa_ 1830–1851).
HOXTON TEA-GARDENS, Britannia Saloon.—Now Britannia Theatre (1802–1841).
NORTH POLE, New North Road.—Now No. 190 (_circa_ 1840).
EDINBURGH CASTLE, Mornington Road, N.W.—Has still a small garden and a
museum formed by Mr. T. G. Middlebrook (before 1838).
BEDFORD ARMS, High Street, Camden Town.—Now Bedford Palace of Varieties.
The gardens were between Arlington Street and High Street. May Terrace
was built on the bowling-green (_circa_ 1824 and later).
BRECKNOCK ARMS.—Now No. 227, Camden Road (_circa_ 1839–1870).
MOTHER RED CAP.—Now 174, High Street, Camden Town (from end of eighteenth
century to early nineteenth century).
SOUTHAMPTON ARMS.—Now No. 1, High Street, Camden Town (_circa_
1818–1849).
ABBEY TAVERN, St. John’s Wood.—Now No. 8, Violet Hill Abbey Gardens, N.W.
(from _circa_ 1844).
EYRE ARMS, St. John’s Wood.—Now No. 1, Finchley Road. The space behind
the tavern and the adjoining Wellington Hall is now Hannay’s
Riding-School (chiefly 1820 and 1830).
SWISS COTTAGE, St. John’s Wood.—Now 98, Finchley Road. Has still a small
garden (_circa_ 1844).
HAMPSTEAD.—The Spaniards (see _London Pleasure-Gardens_, p. 184); Bull
and Bush (still with a garden, recently celebrated in song—_cf._ Thorne’s
_Handbook of Environs of London_, _s.v._ Hampstead); Jack Straw’s Castle.
IV.—CLERKENWELL.
BAGNIGGE WELLS, 1759–1841.—See _London Pleasure-Gardens_, Group I.; also
for some other gardens of early nineteenth century.
CHERRY GARDENS, Clerkenwell.—South-west corner of Bowling-Green Lane
(eighteenth century to _circa_ 1852).
UNION TAVERN.—Now 2, King’s Cross Road (_circa_ 1844–1860).
V.—EAST LONDON.
FALCON TAVERN.—East side of Bethnal Green (1830).
PITT’S HEAD, Bethnal Green.—_Circa_ 1820–1840.
BEN JONSON, Stepney.—_Circa_ 1832.
GREEN DRAGON, Stepney (1830).
GOLDEN EAGLE TAVERN, Mile End Road.—_Circa_ 1827.
LUSBY’S PLEASURE-GARDENS, Mile End Road.—Now Paragon Theatre of
Varieties, 95, Mile End Road (_circa_ 1874–1877).
NEW VICTORIA GARDENS, Mile End.—The Victoria Tavern, No. 110, Grove Road,
Arbery Road, and Medhurst Road, mark the site (_circa_ 1840–1850).
RED COW, Dalston.—_Circa_ 1801–1847.
VI.—SOUTH LONDON.
For VAUXHALL GARDENS (_circa_ 1661–1859), CUMBERLAND GARDENS, etc., see
_London Pleasure-Gardens_, Group VI.
OLD KING’S ARMS, Southwark.—Now No. 68, Surrey Row—formerly Melancholy
Walk (before 1852). (See Rendle and Norman, _Old Inns of Southwark_.)
THE HORNS, Kennington.—Now No. 214, Kennington Park Road. Gardens
_circa_ 1800–1824.
THE BEEHIVE, Walworth.—See _supra_, p. 81.
VICTORIA (or ROYAL VICTORIA) GARDENS, Vauxhall.—Separated from Vauxhall
Gardens by Miller’s Lane (now St. Oswald’s Place). Tate Street and part
of Neville Street on site. Bounded on east by Vauxhall Street (_circa_
1837–1840).
GREEN GATE, Lambeth.—Now 114, Ethelred Street (_circa_ 1710–1893).
CAMBERWELL GROVE HOUSE.—End of eighteenth century to _circa_ 1846.
NINE ELMS TAVERN.—Now 33, Nine Elms Lane, S.W. The garden site now
occupied by the wharf of John Bryan and Co. (_circa_ 1840).
SPRINGFIELD WATERCRESS AND PLEASURE-GROUNDS.—Near the Stag Turnpike,
Wandsworth Road (_circa_ 1860). Fêtes, with dancing and illuminations.
JAMAICA HOUSE, Bermondsey.—At the end of Cherry Garden Street, south of
the Jamaica Road. Visited by Pepys, 1667. Gardens existed till _circa_
1858.
CHERRY GARDENS, Rotherhithe.—Part of Cherry Garden Street now on the
site. There is a Cherry-Tree public-house, No. 50, in that street.
Visited by Pepys, 1664. Gardens existed till _circa_ 1846.
* * * * *
Mention must also be made of a few other nineteenth-century gardens
which, though not in London, were a good deal frequented by Londoners:
ROSHERVILLE GARDENS, Gravesend.—Established 1837, and still in existence.
THE NORTH WOOLWICH GARDENS (1851 to _circa_ 1883).—Now represented by the
Pavilion Hotel and the Royal Victoria Gardens, a public recreation-ground
(Sexby’s _Municipal Parks_, p. 457).
BEULAH SPA (_circa_ 1831–1854), with its archery and entertainments of
the ‘fancy fair’ kind, the site now partly occupied by the Beulah Spa
‘Hydro’ and its grounds.
ANERLEY GARDENS.—Near the station, Anerley (_circa_ 1841–1868).
(Thorne’s _Environs_, _s.v._ Anerley; Walford, _Old and New London_, vi.
314.)
INDEX
A
ABBEY TAVERN, 95
Acrotormentarian Society, 40
Adams, W. H., balloonist, 9
Adams, Mrs. W. H., 46
Adelaide Gallery Casino, 7
Adelphi Theatre, 64
Admiral Keppel, Chelsea, 93
Albert Saloon, 68, 69
Albion Tavern, 5
Alhambra, Leicester Square, 13
Amburgh, Van, 69
American drinks, 7
Anerley Gardens, 97
Angling, 42, 52
Aquatic tournament, Cremorne, 8
Arban, J., 90
Archery, 38, 48
Archery Tavern, Bayswater, 38, 94
‘Aristocratic Fête,’ Cremorne, 8
Ashburnham House, Chelsea, 6, 23
Assembly House, Kentish Town, 95
Aston Park, Birmingham, 14
Atkinson, Miss M. A., actress, 61
Audrian, 19
B
Bagnigge Wells, 96
Bagnigge Wells, New. See New Bagnigge Wells
Baldwin, vocalist, 67
Balloon, the captive, 16
Balloon Tavern, 75
Ballooning, 3, 5, 9, 16, 17, 30, 46, 47, 50, 51, 57, 58, 63, 68, 70, 71,
77, 87, 88
‘Baron’ Nicholson. See Nicholson.
Barrett, Oscar, 67
Barry, John, clown, 74, 75
Barton, William, 50
Bathe, Sir W. de, 89
Battersea, 72–76
Battersea Fields, 73–75
Battersea Park, 75
Battle Bridge, 54
Batty, William, circus proprietor, 15, 30
Batty’s Hippodrome, 30, 31
Baum, John, 17–22
Bayswater, 37, 38, 94
Bayswater Tea-Gardens, 94
Beaufoy, H., 47
Beckwith family, 16
Bedford Arms, 95
Beehive, Walworth, 81, 82
Belgian fête, Cremorne, 16
Bell public-house, King’s Cross, 55
Belvidere Tavern, 95
Ben Jonson Tavern, Stepney, 96
Berenger, Baron de, 1–5
Bermondsey, 97
Bethnal Green, 96
Beulah Spa, 97
Billy the Nutman, 72
Bishop, James, 14
Black Lion, Chelsea, 93
Blackmore, rope-walker, 85
Blanchard, E. L., 26, 28, 29, 63, 67
Blessington, Lady, 31, 32
Blewitt, musician, 77
Blondin, ‘the female,’ 13, 14
Boisset family, 19
Boleno, H., 67
Bologna, harlequin, 53
Booth, ‘General,’ 65
Borini, bandmaster, 7
Bosjesmans, the, 8
Bott, James, 38, 94
Bott’s Archery Tavern, 94
Bouthellier, 9
Bower Saloon, 58
Bowling saloon, American, 7
Boyton, Captain, 91
Bradley, Henry, manager, 68
Braehem, Mlle., 77
Brandon, Mr. Alfred, 21, 22
Brecknock Arms, 95
Britannia Saloon, 95
Brunswick Gardens, Vauxhall, 77, 78
Brunswick House, 77, 78
Buislay, H. and E., 63
Bull and Bush, Hampstead, 96
Bull and Gate, 95
Burnand’s _Black-eyed Susan_, 17
Byron, Lord, 39
C
Cabinet Theatre, 56
Camberwell, 79, 80, 97
Camberwell Grove House, 97
Campbell, Herbert, 67
Campbell, of Sadler’s Wells, 67
Canonbury Tavern, 95
Caroline, Mme., 15
Castle Gardens, 95
Cavanagh, John, fives-player, 49
Cave and Mackney, 10
Chabert, 8
Chalk Farm, 39–41
Chelsea, 93; and see Cremorne and Manor-House Baths
Chelsea manor-houses, 25
Chelsea Vestry, 11, 20
Cherry Gardens, Clerkenwell, 96
— Rotherhithe, 97
Chinese Exhibition, 51
Christie, Mr., 39
Clarence Theatre, the Royal, 56
Clark, T. G., 64, 65
Clarke, Miss, rope-dancer, 59
Clerkenwell, 52, 96
Coal Hole, the, 4
Cochrane, Lord, 2
Cocking’s parachute, 46
Compasses, the Three, 95
Concerts at Grecian Saloon, 58–61
Connop, J., 35
Conquest family, 63
Conquest, B. O., 63, 64, 66
Conquest, George, 63, 64, 65
Conquest, George, the younger, 64
Core, Cristoforo, 8
Coronation Pleasure-Grounds, 60
Coveney, Harriet, 67
Cowell, Sam, 10, 63
Coxwell, Henry, 63, 70, 87
Cremorne Gardens, 1–24; plan of, 6–8; sale of, 22, 23; site of, 23, 24
Cremorne House, 1, 2
Creole choristers, 10
Cricket, 70, 81
Crockford’s Club, 13, 25
Cromwell, the Rev. Canon, 21
Cross, Edward, 83, 88
Crown Tavern, Pentonville, 59
Crown Gardens, Bayswater, 94
Cruikshank, George, 2, 24
Cumberland Gardens, 96
Cushine, Thérèse, 67
Cyder Cellars, 4
D
Dancer, Daniel, miser, 82
Dancing at Cremorne, 7, 17
Danson, George, 85, 86
Darby, fireworker, 3, 77
Deacon, manager, 53
Dean, Miss, 46
Debach brothers, 30
Delamarne’s balloon, 17
Deulin, 10, 67
De Vere, conjurer, 19
Dickens, Charles, 59, 60, 82 _n_.
Dolby, Miss, 89
D’Orsay, Count, 32, 34
Doughty’s dogs, 19
Dowling, Isaac, 67
Duelling, 39, 40
Duffell, Robert, fireworker, 3, 8, 91
E
Eagle, the, City Road, 57–67
Edinburgh Castle, tavern, 95
Edwards, Lambert, 10
Eel-Pie House, Highbury, 42, 43
Eglinton Tournament, 15, 16
Elliot brothers, acrobats, 51
Ellis, James, manager, 5, 79
Evans’s Supper-Rooms, 10
Ewing’s waxworks, 82
Exeter Change, 83
Eyre Arms, 95
F
Falcon Tavern, Bethnal Green, 96
Fancourt, Mr. H., 43, 59
Finsbury Fields, 48
Fitzgerald, Percy, 22
Fitzwilliam, Mrs., 56
Fives-playing, 49
Flask Tavern, Ebury Square, 29
Flexmore, Richard, 7, 62
Flora Gardens, Camberwell, 79, 80
Flower-shows, 6, 8, 85
‘Flying man.’ See Groof
Forde, Miss, 67
Franconi, 8, 51
Frazer, Mr., vocalist, 61
Frost, Mr., vocalist, 77
G
Garibaldi, 44
Garnerin’s parachute, 46
Garratt, John, 75
Garrick’s Head, tavern, 4
Geary, Stephen, 55
‘Geneive,’ Mme., 14
Genvieve, Mme., 14
Gieulien, Miss, 77
Glindon, Robert, 10, 60
Globe Pleasure-Grounds, 70, 71
Godard’s balloon, 16, 17
Godfrey, C., bandmaster, 88, 89
Godfrey, D., bandmaster, 89
Golden Eagle Tavern, 96
Gore House, Kensington, 31–33
Graham, Mr., balloonist, 30, 87
Graham, Mrs., balloonist, 3, 30, 46, 50, 80, 87
Greaves, W., artist, 24
Grecian Saloon and Theatre, 57–67
Green, Charles, balloonist, 5, 9, 46, 57
Green Dragon, Stepney, 96
Green Gate, City Road, 59, 60
Green Gate, Lambeth, 97
Grimaldi, 53
Groof, Vincent de, 17–19
Grove House, Camberwell, 97
Grover, Russell, 61
Gun, the, Pimlico, 64
Gyp, the raven, 73
Gypson, balloonist, 68
H
Hackney, 46, 47
Hampstead, 95
Hampton, John, balloonist, 3, 30, 51
Handel, 88
Harrington, boxer, 91
Harris, Thomas, balloonist, 57, 58, 82
Harroway, musician, 67
Hart, Mr., vocalist, 77
Hawkins, Sir Henry, 22
Hazlitt, William, 81
Hengler, 29, 59
Herring, Paul, clown, 69
Highbury, 42
Highbury Barn, 13, 14, 95
Hippodrome, Batty’s, Kensington, 30, 31
Hippodrome, Notting Hill, 34–36
Hogarth’s ‘Evening,’ 52
Hollyoak, 75
Hoop and Toy, Brompton, 93
Horn, C., musician, 61
Horns, the, Kennington, 96
Hornsey, 95
Hornsey Wood House, 42, 43, 95
Howell, Henry, singer, 60, 77
Hoxton, 48
Hoxton Tea-Gardens, 95
Huddart, Miss, 89
Hunt, Henry, M.P., 57
Huntingdon, Lady, 1
I
Ireland, James, 75
Ireland, T., 5
Ironwork gates, Cremorne, 24; and see frontispiece
Isaacson, of Grecian Theatre, 7
Islington, 48, 95
‘Islington Vauxhall,’ 49
J
Jack Straw’s Castle, 96
Jackson’s racing-grounds, 94
Jamaica House, Bermondsey, 97
James, Miss Fraser (or Frazer), singer, 59; an illustration, p. 59
Jefferini, clown, 82
Jeffrey, Francis, 39
Joel, Herr von, 10
Jones, Emma, artist, 32
Jones, Horace, architect, 89
Jones, Tom, mimic, 68
Jullien, 89, 90
K
Kensington, 30–33, 93
Kentish Town, 44, 45
Kentish Town Assembly House, 95
King’s Arms, Kensington, 93
King’s Arms, Pimlico, 94
King’s Arms, the old, Southwark, 96
King’s Cross, 54–56
King’s Cross Theatre, 56
L
Lambeth, 97
Lanza, Gesualdo, 55, 56
Lanza, Rosalie, 56
Latour, Henri, 9, 10
Laurent, bandmaster, 7
Lauri family, 17
Leclercq family, 67
Leotard, 16
Littlejohn, manager, 5
Lovarny, Mlle., 89
Love, Miss, 10
Lumber Troop, 50
Lusby’s Pleasure-Gardens, 90
M
Mackney and Cave, 10
Maddox, equilibrist, 52
Maginn, Dr., 4
Manor-House, Walworth, 84
Manor-House Baths and Gardens, Chelsea, 25–29
Manor-House Theatre, Chelsea, 26
Marimon, Mme., 91
Marionettes at Cremorne, 7
Marlborough Gardens, Chelsea, 93
Marriott’s band, 7
Matthews, C. H., 41, 53
Matthews, Fanny, 5
Matthews, Tom, clown, 5
Maze, the, tavern, Harrow Road, 94
Mead, T., actor, 67
Mermaid Tavern, Hackney, 46, 47
Middlebrook, T. G., 95
Milano, harlequin, 67
Mile End, 70, 96
Millbank, 28
Moffatt’s circus, 51
Moncrieff, W. T., 67
Monster, the, Pimlico, 94
Montgolfier balloons, 16, 17, 77, 88
Montgomery, Charles, Grecian Theatre, 67
Montpelier Cricket Club, 70, 81
Montpelier Gardens, Walworth, 81, 82
Moore, T., the poet, 39
Mortram, fireworker, 8
Mother Red Cap, 95
Musard, 77
Myddelton, Sir Hugh, 52, 53
N
Napoleon, Prince Louis, 15
Natator, ‘man-frog,’ 16
New Bagnigge Wells, 94
New Globe Pleasure-Grounds, 70, 71
New Ranelagh, Millbank, 26–29
New River, 42, 52
New Victoria Gardens, Mile End, 96
Nicholls, Harry, 64
Nicholson, ‘Baron,’ 3–5, 13, 79
Nicholson, Renton. See Nicholson, Baron
Nine Elms Tavern, 97
North Pole, 95
North Woolwich Gardens, 97
Notting Hill, 34–36, 94
Novello, Clara, 89
O
Old King’s Arms, Southwark, 96
Opera, 17, 55, 61
Orange Tea-Gardens, Pimlico, 94
P
Paganini, 59
Paget, Lieutenant, 49
Panarmonion Gardens, 54–56
Pandean Band, 58
Panoramas, Surrey Gardens, 85–87
Paragon Theatre, 96
Parkes, Miss C., 67
Parsons, organ-builder, 61
Patey, Madame, 91
Pavilion Theatre, 63
Penn, Granville, 2
Penn, William, 1
Pepper’s ghost, 44
Pereira, Mme., 16
Phillips, Henry, botanist, 84
Phillips, Philip, scene-painter, 58
Piatti, 89
Pigeon-shooting, 72
Pilton, James, 25
Pimlico, 29, 94
Pitt’s Head, 96
Plimmeri, Signor, 28
Plough, the, Notting Hill, 94
Poitevin, Mme., 9
Polytechnic Institution, 44
Poole, Charles, manager, 26
Poole and Stacey, managers, 91
Powell, Mrs. See Geneive
Primrose Hill, 39
Princess Royal, Bayswater, 38
Pugilism, 42, 43
Punnett, P., 61
R
Racing, 34–36
Ramo Samee, 85
Random, Charles. See Berenger
Ranelagh Gardens, Paddington, 94
Ranelagh, the New, Gardens, 26–29
Red Cow, Dalston, 96
Red House, Battersea, 72–76
Red Lion, Holborn, 12
Reeves, John, manager, 91
Reeves, Sims, 67, 89, 91
Rivière, Jules, 17
Robson, Frederick, 62
Rock, James, 73
Rooke, boxer, 91
Rosemary Branch, 48–51
Rosherville Gardens, 97
Rosoman, 52
Rouse, Thomas, 57–62
Rowlandson’s ‘Hackney Assembly,’ 47
Royal Oak, Bayswater, 37
Royal Standard Pleasure-Grounds, 68, 69
Russelli family, 80
S
Sadler, balloonist, 46, 47
Sadler’s Wells, 52, 53
St. John’s Wood, 95
St. Pancras Volunteers, 39
St. Thomas’s Hospital, 90
Sala, G. A., 6, 31, 32
Salamander, the Italian, 8
Salvation Army, 65, 66
Samee, Ramo, 85
Savage, Ned, wrestler, 42
Scott, John, 39
Searles, pedestrian, 75
Sharp, J. W., 10
Shepherd and Shepherdess Gardens, 57
Shepherd, T. H., artist, 24, 33, 41, 60
Sidney, A. See Wigan, Alfred
Silvester. See Sylvester
Simmons’s balloon, 17–19
Simpson, Thomas Bartlett, 5–12
Sir Hugh Myddelton’s Head, 52, 53
Six Bells, Chelsea, 93
‘Skeleton, the living,’ 82
Sloman, Charles, 67, 80
Sluice House, Highbury, 42, 43
Smith, Edward Tyrrell, 12–16
Smith, Miss, Grecian Theatre, 59
Smith, Richard, manager, 25–28
South London Horticultural Society, 85
Southampton Arms, 95
Southby, J., fireworker, 85
Southwark, 96
Soyer, Alexis, 31–33
Soyer, Madame, 32
Soyer’s symposium, 31–33
Spaniards, the, Hampstead, 96
Springfield Watercress Grounds, 97
Spry, H., 64
Spurgeon, C. H., 89
Stacey and Poole, managers, 91
Stacey, Walter, manager, 80
Stadium, Chelsea, 1–3, 24
Standard Pleasure-Grounds, 68, 69
Stanfield, Clarkson, 58
Stepney, 96
Stocks, Miss Sophia, 57, 58
Strange, Frederick, 90
Strombolo House, 94
Surrey Gardens. See Surrey Zoological Gardens
Surrey Zoological Gardens, 55, 83, 92
Swiss Cottage, 95
Sylvester, A., 44
T
Thatched House, Islington, 95
Thorrington, H., 55
‘Tichborne, Sir Roger,’ 91
Tivoli Gardens, Battersea, 75
Tunstall, Miss, 67, 69
Turnour, fireworker, 26
Tyler, William, 88, 89
U
Union Tavern, Clerkenwell, 96
Union Tea-Gardens, 94
V
Van Amburgh, 69
Vaughan, Kate, 63
Vauxhall Gardens, 6–10, 29, 58, 96
Vauxhall Pleasure-Gardens, 77, 78
Vauxhall, the, Islington, 49
Vere. See De Vere
Victor, Miss M. A., 64
Victoria Gardens, the New, Mile End, 96
Victoria Gardens, Vauxhall, 97
W
Walworth, 81, 82, 83 _f_.
Wandsworth Road, 78
Ward, James, artist, 4
Webb, Bill, pugilist, 43
Wellington Gardens, Chelsea, 93
Wellington Restaurant, 13
Weston, Edward, manager, 44
Weston’s Retreat, 44, 45
Whichelo, H. M., artist, 71
White Conduit House, 95
White Horse, Kensington, 93
Whitfield, George, 1
Whyte, John, 34
Wigan, Alfred, actor, 26
Wilberforce, William, 32
Williams, W. H., singer, 56
Wrestling, 40, 57, 69
Y
Yorkshire Stingo, 94
Young, Selina, 14
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_Elliot Stock_, 62, _Paternoster Row_, _London_, _E.C._
FOOTNOTES
{1} The institution was being formed chiefly in 1831. There is a
prospectus dated May 28, 1831.
{2a} On the owners of Cremorne House, built _circa_ 1740, see Beaver,
_Chelsea_, p. 156.
{2b} A double-barrelled gun made according to the Baron’s patent for
preventing accidents is shown in a table-case in the Chelsea Public
Library. It is inscribed, ‘Patent Gun Manufactory, Cremorne House,
Chelsea.’
{2c} The fullest account of this extraordinary affair is in Atlay’s
_Trial of Lord Cochrane_, in which the evidence is carefully brought
together and sifted.
{2d} Cruikshank also illustrated a ‘Stadium’ prospectus which was
published in the form of an attractive little book in 1834.