Ranelagh [ Sports & Leisure ]
… Image Thomas Bowles, ‘The Rotunda at Ranelagh Gardens in Chelsea near (now in) London’, Wikimedia Commons, 1754 Image John Bowles, Ranelagh Rotunda (1751). British Library Shelfmark: C103k.11 Résumé Ranelagh was one of London’s pleasure gardens, a typical eighteenth-century locus of sociability, which offered a mixture of social classes – … near the Avon, and York a planted walk on the banks of the Ouse, but the major gardens with entertainment kiosks were in London. The most significant feature of pleasure gardens, in the context of the times, was that they offered new modes of …
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