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Amanda Vickery: Vauxhall Gardens, 7 February 2013
Vauxhall Gardens: A History
by Alan Borg and David Coke.
Yale, 473 pp., £55, June 2011,978 0 300 17382 6 Show More
by Alan Borg and David Coke.
Yale, 473 pp., £55, June 2011,
“... Gardens in Bath (from 1742), Moore’s Spring Gardens in Norwich (1750s), Vauxhall Gardens in Bristol (1750s and 1770s) and the New Ranelagh Gardens in Newcastle (1760) were quite staid, drawing in socially more homogeneous customers from the provincial gentility. Private pleasure gardens attached to noble houses and royal courts have a long history, but ... ”