Identifier: oldnewlondonnarr05thor (find matches)
Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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amusement:— There is a vast amphitheatre, finely gilt, painted, and illuminated, into which everybody that loves eating, drinking, staring, or crowding, is admitted for twelve pence. The building and dis-position of the gardens cost sixteen thousand pounds. ... I was there last night, but did not find the joy of it. Vauxhall is a little better, for the garden is pleasanter, and one goes by water. Ranelagh, however, appears soon to have eclipsed its rival on the other side of the water, for two says he has ordered all his letters to be directed thither. And again, some four years afterwards, he tells us : Ranelagh is so crowded, that in going there tother night in a string of coaches, we had a stop of six-and-thirty minutes. The Jubilee Masquerade, after the Venetian manner, held here in 1749, about seven years after the gardens were first opened, is thus described by gossiping Horace Walpole :— It was by far the best understood and prettiest spectacle I ever saw Chelsea. ) THE JUBILEE MASQUERADE.
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Rotunda Gardens, Ranelagh Gardens in 1750 - OLD AND NEW LONDON. (Chelsea. —nothing in a fair) tale ever surpassed it. One of the proprietors, who is a German, and belongs to court, had got my. Lady Yarmouth to persuade the king to order it. It began at three o'clock; at about five, people of fashion began to go. When you entered, you found the whole garden filled with marquees and spread with tents, which remained all night very commodely. In one quarter was a May-pole, dressed with garlands, and people dancing round it to a tabour and pipe, and rustic music, all masked, as were all the various bands of music that were disposed in different parts of the garden ;some like huntsmen, with French horns ; some like peasants; and a troop of harlequins and scaramouches in the little open temple on the mount. On the canal was a sort of gondola, adorned with flags and streamers, and filled with music, rowing about. All round the outside of the amphitheatre were shops, filled with Dresden china, japan, &c.,and all the shopkeepers in masks ;

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