Vauxhall [ Sports & Leisure ]
… Sebastian Müller, ‘Vauxhall Gardens, shewing the Grand Walk at the entrance of the garden, and the Orchestra, with the Musick playing’, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 1755. Image Samuel Wale, A General Prospect of Vaux Hall Gardens … made polite pleasures a part of sociability. The activities it offered ranged 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 … a small group of their own social circle. Places > Sports & Leisure Mots-clés Entertainement Exhibitions Gothic Music Nature Pleasure gardens Vauxhall pleasure garden was one of the public outdoor places of sociability: the ‘ …
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