Pleasure gardens [ Sports & Leisure ]
… change gradually around 1770, however, when the entrance fee was lowered to one shilling, bringing in the lower middling rank which eventually transformed the social makeup of the visitors. This provided opportunities for heterogenous contact … and cultural consumption overlapped with entertainment and sociability was mixed there with the permeability of social ranking’. 5 Pleasure gardens were thus spaces where one could contemplate art and listen to music in a setting where …
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