By Warwick Wroth F.S.A. (auth.)
A mine of knowledge on not just how Londoners of all periods spent their rest hours at those institutions, but additionally what they and the literati of the day considered them. For the following was once contained, for greater than a century, the leisure lifetime of a whole humans - from the modern, if just a little uninteresting, assemblies in Ranelagh's nice rotunda, to the extra democratic nightly festivities amid the adorned supper packing containers and leafy avenues of Vauxhall Gardens, to the loose and straightforward surroundings of such heart- and working-class excitement haunts as Bagnigge Wells, Dobney's Bowling eco-friendly, and the ill-famed puppy and Duck in St. Georges Fields. in addition to the amusements atypical to the gardens themselves, there have been the embryonic stirrings of a few different entertainments that have been destined to flourish within the moment half the eighteenth and the arrival century. therefore, as well as the track, dancing, bowling, occasional playing, and intake of tea, wine, tarts, and different comestibles for which the gardens have been justly celebrated, and extra bold ventures equivalent to fireworks and illuminations, transparencies, masquerades, and balloon ascensions, there have been usually lively exhibitions of trick horsemanship, juggling, and ropedancing (eventually a speciality of Sadler's Wells), including extra evidently dramatic fare corresponding to puppets and burlettas. because the inhabitants of higher London persevered to extend and the outlying areas within which a few of the gardens lay have been steadily equipped over, numerous of those final have been included into newly demonstrated circuses, summer season theatres, and track halls, the place the enterprise of consuming and consuming used to be additionally endured. For an individual learning the origins of those later entertainments, for this reason, the background of the eighteenth-century excitement gardens varieties crucial examining. - from the Foreword by way of A.H. Saxon
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A writer in the 'I'own and Country Magazine for April 1770 (p. 195), speaks conterhptuously of the canal "as about the size of a butcher's tray, where 1 The organ appears, about 1772, to have been silenced on Sundays, at least for a time. A correspondent in 1h Gazetteer and New Daily Adflertiser for 20 J une, 1772, refers to the Middlesex . Justices who will not su/fer the organs to be played at the Little Pantheon, White Conduit House, Bagnigge Wells, &c. " The career of the Pantheon was brief; for in March 1774 the building and its grounds were announced for sale on account of Craven's bankruptcy.
As early as seven o'clock in the morning a few valetudinarians might be found at the Well, but most of the visitors did not arrive till two or three hours later. Between ten and eleven the garden was filled with a gay and, in outward seeming, fashionable throng. The co mpany, however, was extraordinarily mixed. Virtue and Vice; Fashion and the negation of Fashion had all their representatives. Sir Courtly Nice drove up to the gate in his gilt coach, and old Sir Fumble brought his lady and daughter.
Pinks (Clerkmwell) statcs that thc houses numbered (in his time) 5 to 8 occupicd thc site of thc Wells. 2 Thc New Wells seem to have been already established in 1737. The earliest advertisement quoted in Pinks is of 1738, hut there are earlier advertiscments (W. ), May to August 1737, in one of which reference is made to the alterations in the theatre that seasoll. 3+ THE LONDON PLEASURE GARDENS of views of Vauxhall, and a whimsical, chymical and pantomimical entertainment called the Sequel. During the next year (1739) similar entertainments were given, and Mr.