FOOTNOTES

New Ranelagh and Minor Vauxhall, Millbank.—These gardens were near the river, and occupied a small space between the Belgrave Docks Wharf and Ranelagh Road. Part of the engineering works of James Simpson and Co., Limited (101, Grosvenor Road, Pimlico), now covers the site. They were advertised from about 1809. In the summer months (1809, 1811) there were ‘grand galas’ and balls, with concerts, and fireworks by Signora Hengler, the fireworker to Vauxhall Gardens. The admission tickets for the balls were neatly executed (see pp. 27, 28), but cost only 2s. 6d., and the dancers can hardly have been of the rank of the famous Chelsea ‘Ranelagh,’ which had come to an end in 1803. In 1810 and 1811 the proprietors gave a silver cup for sailing matches. The gardens retained some popularity till about 1829 (Picture of London; tickets, cuttings, etc., in the writer’s collection).

The Flask, Ebury Square.—An old tavern, of which there are various mentions in the eighteenth century (Crace, Catal., p. 311, No. 59; Beaver’s Chelsea, p. 307). In the thirties it had a tea-garden with a colonnade overgrown by creepers running round two sides of the garden, and a fine fountain. A skittle club played in the garden or in a covered pavilion adjoining. The tavern seems to have been demolished about 1868, when Ebury Square was partly rebuilt. There is an engraving of ‘The Flask Tavern,’ showing the garden, published in 1837 by J. Moore, from a drawing by H. Jones.

The Eel-Pie (or Sluice) House Tavern has sometimes been confused with the Sluice House proper, a wooden building contiguous to it. The New River Company had one of their sluices here, and the house was tenanted by two of their walksmen or inspectors; view in Hone’s Every Day Book, 1826, p. 696.

Deulin ( = Isaac Dowling, d. 1860) made a reputation here as harlequin.

Thérèse Cushine (d. 1856), the dancer, appeared first at the (old) Garrick and afterwards at the Eagle. She married Milano, the harlequin and ballet-master, who was at the Eagle circa 1847.

W. T. Moncrieff was one of the dramatic writers. E. L. Blanchard’s Arcadia was produced here in 1841. In this operetta Miss Forde, a charming ballad-singer, appeared as Phyllis.

Harriet Coveney, from circa 1840; Miss Carlotta Leclercq and other members of the Leclercq family; Harry Boleno, the pantomimist; Miss C. Parkes, columbine, 1851; T. Mead, the actor, 1859; Herbert Campbell (d. 1904) in pantomime in the seventies; Baldwin, baritone singer (from 1833) was chorus-master.

Charles Montgomery in 1851 succeeded Campbell (the Sadler’s Wells actor) as stage-manager.

The musical director (1838–1840) was Harroway. C. Sloman, a comic singer and improvisatore, well known at the London gardens and tavern concerts, was concert director in 1860. Oscar Barrett was musical director, 1877.

Entertainments.—The singers were of the tavern-concert rank. Miss Tunstall sang in 1843. In 1841 (or 1840?) Herring made a hit in The Imp of the Devil’s Gorge pantomime (cf. Blanchard’s Life, p. 479). In 1849 he was clown in Sinbad the Sailor. In 1840 Van Amburgh, the well-known lion-tamer of Vauxhall, etc., appeared with his lions and ‘colossal elephant.’ In 1837–1840, Devon and Cornwall wrestlers.

1837. Mount Vesuvius. Danson.

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1839. Mount Hecla. ,,

1840. ,, ,,

1841. City of Rome. ,,

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1843. Temples of Elora. ,,

1844. Old London and the Great Fire. Danson and Telbin.

1845. Edinburgh. Danson.

1846. Naples and Vesuvius. Danson (the old view repainted).

1847. Gibraltar. Danson.

1848. Rome. Danson (the old view).

1849. Storming of Badajoz. Danson and Sons.

1850. Napoleon’s Passage of the Alps. Danson and Sons.

1851. Temple of Janus. Danson and Sons.

1852. Mount Etna. Danson and Sons.

1853. Chusan. Danson and Sons.

1855. Sebastopol.

1856. Constantinople and Scutari. Danson.

1862. Naples and Bay.

1872. Sultan’s Summer Palace on the Bosphorus. Grieve and Sons.

The Penton Place entrance was about where that street is met by Amelia Street.

The New Street entrance was at the end of the street where it meets the continuation of Manor Place.

Part of Delverton Road, Suffield Road, Tarver Road, and Berryfield Road are also on the site. The Surrey Gardens Hotel, at the corner of Delverton Road and Manor Place, alone commemorates the vanished Zoo.