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In October 1853, when the annual license for the Royal Gardens
was applied for, great complaints were made of the nuisance caused
by the bals masqués which lasted from 11 p.m. till 5 or 6 a.m., and
were frequented by many disreputable characters. The license was
renewed on the somewhat easy conditions that the fireworks should
not be let off after eleven, and that the gardens should close at three
in the morning. In 1858, Mr. R. Duffell was the director. Monster
galas were announced, and the gardens were opened on Sundays
for a promenade.
Monday, 25 July, 1859, witnessed the last entertainment at
Vauxhall Gardens. One of the vocalists at the concert then given was
Mr. Russell Grover, who died lately, in April 1896. After the concert
and the equestrian performances in the Rotunda, dancing was
continued till past midnight: the fireworks displayed the device
Farewell for Ever, and Vauxhall was closed.
On 22 August following, the auctioneer ascended his rostrum in
the gardens at noon and announced that the site had been let for
building, and that all the property on the premises must be sold.
Three “deal painted tables with turned legs,” made for the gardens in
1754, went for nine shillings each. The dancing platform realised fifty
guineas, the ballet theatre seventeen guineas, and the orchestra
ninety-nine pounds. The pictures that still remained in the supper
boxes were purchased by Edward Tyrrell Smith, who placed them in
the Banqueting Hall at Cremorne. The whole sale realised about
£800.
The builders soon went to work upon the twelve acres of Vauxhall
Gardens, and in 1864 the church of St. Peter, Vauxhall, erected on
part of the site, was consecrated. Numerous streets of small houses
have for many years completely obliterated all traces of the gardens,
the boundaries of which, it is, however, interesting to trace. The
western boundary is marked by the present Goding Street, and the
eastern by St. Oswald’s Place. Leopold Street and a small portion of
Vauxhall Walk define their northern limit, and Upper Kennington
Lane marks their southern extent. The space within these
boundaries is occupied by Gye Street, Italian Walk, Burnett Street,
Auckland Street, Glynn Street, and part of Tyers Street,[362] and also
by St. Peter’s Church and the Lambeth District School of Art.
The Farewel to Vaux Hall.]
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As late as 1869 “the Supper Colonnade of Vauxhall” was
advertised to be sold cheap,[363] and with this prosaic detail of our
own time, we must perforce take leave of the pleasure gardens of a
past century.
AUTHORITIES AND VIEWS.
The literary and pictorial matter available for a history of Vauxhall
Gardens is almost inexhaustible and, except in a monograph, it would
be impossible to set forth a detailed list of authorities and views. The
present sketch is primarily based on the materials furnished by an
extensive collection in the writer’s possession, consisting of views,
portraits, songs, bills, and cuttings from newspapers and magazines,
and covering the period 1732–1859. Among many other authorities
that have been consulted, the following may be mentioned:—Pepys’s
Diary: A Sketch of the Spring Garden, Vauxhall (by John Lockman,
1753?); A Description of Vauxhall Gardens, London, S. Hooper, 1762
(Guildhall Library, London); Kearsley’s Stranger’s Guide (1793?); Sale
Catalogues of Vauxhall Gardens, 1818 (Brit. Mus.) and 1841 (W.
Coll.); A Brief Historical and Descriptive Account of the Royal
Gardens, Vauxhall, 1822; The Vauxhall Papers, 1841; the histories of
Lambeth and Surrey; W. H. Husk in Grove’s Dict. of Music, art.
“Vauxhall Gardens”; Austin Dobson’s Eighteenth Century Vignettes,
1st ser. p. 230, ff.; Cunningham’s Handbook of London; Wheatley’s
London Past and Present; Walford, vi. 447, ff.; Blanchard in Era
Almanack for 1870, p. 9, ff.
INDEX
A
I
Iliff, Mrs., 269
Incledon, Charles, 216, 310
Ireland, Mr., 280
Isaacs, Miss Rebecca, 165
Islington Spa, 15–24
Kean, Edmund, 51
Kear, 97, 242, 243
Keeble, organist, 202
Keefe, Mr., 280
Kelly, Mr., 307
Kemp, William, 81 ff.
Kennedy, Mrs., 310
Kenrick, Dr., 108
Kentish Town Assembly House, 129, 130
Kerman, Madam, 34
Keyse, Thomas, 231 ff.
Kilburn Wells, 194–196
King, Erasmus, 280
King’s Bench Prison, 276
Knerler, Mr., 96
Macklin, 52
Maddox, Michael, 48
Mallinson, 319
Mara, Mme., 216
Marble Hall, Vauxhall, 281, 282
Marinari, G., 215
Marriages at Sion Chapel, Hampstead, 178, 180
Marshall, Miss, 243
Martin, Edward, 123
Martin, the “Tunbridge Knight,” 18
Martyr, Mrs., 310
Marylebone Gardens, 40, 93–110
Marylebone Music Hall, 109
Marylebone Spa, 108
Mason, Monck, 321, 322
Masters, Elizabeth, 290
Mattocks, Mr. and Mrs., 250
May-dance, 30, 115
Maze, at New Georgia, 188;
at White Conduit House, 135
McDougal, Mr., 65
Mensall, Mr., 73
Merlin’s Cave, Clerkenwell, 54, 55
Merlin’s Cave at the New Wells, 34, 54;
at Richmond, 54
Mermaid Gardens, Hackney, 10
Miles, James, 46, 47
Miles, Mr., 273
Miles’s Music House, 46, 47
Mills, Mr., 273
Milton, statue of, 302
Milward, Mr., 233
Misaubin, “Dr.,” 18
Molloy, Mr., 22
Monconys, 287
Monkhouse, Mr., 65, 137
Montagu, Lady M. W., 20
Montpelier Gardens, Walworth, 10
Moore, Mr., 173
Moore, at Finch’s Grotto, 242
Morland, George, 153
Morland, Sir Samuel, 287
Mortram, 318
Mother Huff’s, Hampstead, 180
“Mount Etna” at Ranelagh, 215, 216
Mount Gardens: see Flora Tea Gardens, Westminster Bridge
Road
Mountain, Mr. and Mrs., 312
Moyse, Miss, 101, 243
Mozart, 210
Mulberry Garden, 1
Mulberry Garden, Clerkenwell, 40–42
Munden, 72, 311
Murphin, 243
Musard, 322
Paddy O’Rourke, 65
Paine, Thomas, 115
Palmer, flute-player, 243
Pancras Wells, 123–126
Pandean Band, 135
Pantheon, Oxford Street, 25, 268
Pantheon, Spa Fields, 25–28, 143
Park, hautboy player, 103
Parry, harper, 208
Parson Bate: see Dudley, Sir H. B.
Patagonian Theatre, 243
Pay, Miss, 233
Pearson, Mrs., 44
Peerless Pool, The, 81–85
Peile, Mr. and Mrs., 233
Penny’s Folly, 145, 146
Pepys, Samuel, 1, 2, 94, 189, 258, 286–288
Perceval, Rt. Hon. Spencer, 192
“Perillous Pond,” 81
Petersham, Lady Caroline, 298
Phelps, Samuel, 52
Phillips, Mr., 103, 106
Piercy, Mrs., 233
Pike, organ-builder, 242
Pinchbeck, 18, 291
Pinder a Wakefielde tavern, 56
Pinto, Mrs., 104: see also Brent, Miss
Pinto, Thomas, 103, 104, 250
Piquenit, 104
Placido, 51
Plenius, Miss, 101
Pleyel, 269
Price, equestrian, 142, 148, 150
Prospect House: see Dobney’s Bowling Green
Prynn, 65
Yates, Mr., 35
Yeates, Mr., 35, 36
York Buildings Music Meeting, 279
Yorkshire Stingo, The, 115–116
Young, Miss, 209
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