Vauxhall [ Sports & Leisure ]
… visitors, for a fee, to meet acquaintances while rambling in the alleys, listening to music coming from kiosks, or dining. Its relevance to the history of sociability lies in its combination of social pleasures with cultural … It offered a range of social occasions for the visitors – wandering in the garden to meet occasional acquaintances, dining in an arbour with one’s own circle, attending concerts with a larger public. The architectural layout was planned … frequenting the garden, giving a satirical view of them. Literary figures such as Dr Johnson and Boswell are shown dining in their box (left) with Goldsmith (though he had died ten years before: this is a synthetic reconstruction of …
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