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Preface

v

Cremorne Gardens

1

Manor-House Baths and Gardens, Chelsea

25

Batty’s Hippodrome and Soyer’s Symposium, Kensington

30

The Hippodrome, Notting Hill

34

The Royal Oak, Bayswater

37

Chalk Farm

39

Eel-Pie (or Sluice) House, Highbury

42

Weston’s Retreat, Kentish Town

44

The Mermaid, Hackney

46

The Rosemary Branch, Hoxton

48

Sir Hugh Myddelton’s Head, Islington

52

The Panarmonion Gardens, King’s Cross

54

The Eagle and Grecian Saloon

57

Albert Saloon and Royal Standard Pleasure-Gardens

68

New Globe Pleasure-Grounds, Mile End Road

70

The Red House, Battersea

72

Brunswick Gardens (or Vauxhall Pleasure-Gardens), Vauxhall

77

Flora Gardens, Camberwell

79

Montpelier Tea-Gardens, Walworth

81

Surrey Zoological Gardens

83

List of Minor London Gardens, Nineteenth Century

93

Index

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