Vauxhall [ Sports & Leisure ]
… a record of a particular occasion). Mrs Weichsel is singing from a box, and the foreground is populated by members of fashionable society: between Mrs Weichsel’s box and the tree in the middle stands the famous Duchess of Devonshire, a … (centre right); the other characters seem to belong to less elevated social spheres. Vauxhall garden passed out of fashion in the first half of the nineteenth century, and eventually closed in 1859. Little of it is left in the area, …
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