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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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Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… appropriate participants and activities. The term ‘assembly’ was defined by Edward Philips in 1720 as ‘a Concourse, or Meeting of People, a definition which emerged when early assembly rooms were being constructed across Britain in the … expanded upon Philips’s definition, outlining the audience and purpose of the assembly as ‘a stated and general meeting of the polite persons of both sexes; for the sake of conversation, gallantry, news, and play’. 5 The assembly … or Lady Directress was responsible for upholding the rules of the assembly rooms which were usually determined in meetings of the subscribers, as they determined the rules by which they were to be governed. 12 7 . Steven Gores, …
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Dr Burney's Concerts (1832) [ Practices / People ]
… the same. “But how we wished for our dear Mr. Crisp! Do pray, now, leave your gout to itself, and come to our next music meeting. Or if it needs must cling to you, and come also, who knows but that music, which has “‘Charms to sooth the …
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