Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… a town’s mapping and layout, as urban planning reinforced notions of a collective, corporate identity (Borsay 80). Public buildings like assembly rooms contributed significantly to the overall image and gentrification of a town, … life in the town by the mid-1830s. 14 The use of the assembly rooms in Leeds featured a similar decline, as the 1835 publication, Walks Through Leeds , observed that the rooms ‘had rarely been opened in recent years’, before finally …
Assemblies | Community | Dance | Entertainement | Leisure | Music | Politeness | Women
Encyclopedia