Category: History - British
Transcribed from the 1907 Elliot Stock edition by David Price, email [email protected]. Many thanks to the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Libraries for allowing their copy to be consulted in making this transcription.
THE New Globe tavern, No. 359, Mile End Road, was and is (though somewhat altered)—a substantial building, with a fine golden globe still keeping its balance on the roof. From t...
2. Part 2In contrast to these popular shows, the manager on Friday, July 9, 1858, gave an ‘Aristocratic Fête,’ arranged by a committee of gentlemen assisted by lady patronesses, who are...
5. Part 5In March, 1830, the place was opened, but the dreams of the prospectus were never realized. A shilling was charged for admission to the gardens, but it does not appear that they...
3. Part 3The efforts of the half-hearted Chelsea Vestry of 1857 were renewed with more vigour (and with more justification) from 1870 onwards, and they had a valuable ally in Canon Cromw...
4. Part 4A Welsh landlord (apparently in the early twenties) named Davies paid a £50 rent, which he could not get back by catering for his few local customers, chiefly nurserymen. At the...
7. Part 7Balloon ascents, which had such a strange fascination for the frequenters of Vauxhall in the thirties and forties, and which were always an attraction at Cremorne, do not seem t...
8. Part 8{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 Ma...
1. Part 1Transcribed from the 1907 Elliot Stock edition by David Price, email [email protected]. Many thanks to the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Libraries for allowing their co...
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