Vauxhall [ Sports & Leisure ]
… from collective entertainment, such as a music kiosk to be heard by ramblers in the surrounding alleys, to intimate meetings in boxes around the grove for visitors entertaining a small group of their own social circle. Places > Sports … by Lockman, set by Boyce, in George Bickham Jr The Musical Entertainer (1737); it shows how the garden favoured the meetings of ‘belles and beaux’: ‘Garden calls away: […] Belles & Beaux are all invited, / To partake of varied Sweets’. … from collective entertainment, such as a music kiosk to be heard by ramblers in the surrounding alleys, to intimate meetings in boxes around the grove for visitors entertaining a small group of their own social circle. … De Bolla, …
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