The London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... still in existence, and the space between them and Highgate was still open fields. Attached to the house at that time was a well known cricket ground.4 About 1852 the Corporation of London purchased Copenhagen House with its grounds and adjacent fields to the extent of about seventy-five acres, and began to build there the present Metropolitan Cattle Market, between the York and Caledonian Roads, which was opened in 1855. The old tavern (pulled down in 1853 5) and tea-gardens were thus swept away, and their site is approximately marked by the Great Clock Tower in the market.0 Hone's Every Day Book, i. 858, fF.; Nelson's Islington; Lewis's Islington; Larwood and Hotten, Signboards, 435, 436; Walford, ii. 275, 276, 283; v. 374; Tomlins's Perambulation of Islington, 204, 205. 1 Picture of Lonaon, 1823 and 1829; Hone's Every Day Book, i. 859, 870. 2 The hay-harvest is referred to in Nelson's Islington, 1811, 74. A view of 1809, published by Cundcc in the Juvenile Tourist, 1810, shows cockney visitors playing in the hay. 3 Plan in Lewis's Islington. 4 J. Hollingshcad's My Lifetime, i. 13. The cricket ground was between Copenhagen House and Maiden Lane. 5 Tomlins, Perambulation of Islington, p. 205. 0 F. Miller, St. Pancras, 269. VIEWS. i. Copenhagen House, Islington, as it appeared in 1737, sepia drawing by Bernard Lens. Crace, Cat. p. 604, No. 191. 2. South-east view of Copenhagen House, printed for R. Saver and J. Bennett, 20 March, 1783 (W. Coll.); the woodcut in Lewis's Islington, p. 283, is derived from this. 3. Copenhagen House, Islington. J. Swaine del. 1793; J. Swaine, sculp. 1854. Woodcut (W. Coll.). 4. There arc several views of Copenhagen House in the nineteenth century, see e.g. Hone's Every Day Book, i. 858; Cromwell's Islington, ...