Tag Archives: music

Cremorne Gardens: Drinking, Dancing and Danger!

Posted on 22/01/2022 by The Gardens Trust

Chelsea, nowadays largely the playground of the rich, was in the middle of the 19thc the playground of every class of Londoner, with almost every form of popular entertainment on offer on the banks of the Thames at Cremorne. Whether … Continue reading →

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Fireworks Part 2: Marvellous Contrivances and Warlike Music

Posted on 30/10/2021 by The Gardens Trust

MUSIC AND FIREWORKS! By the 17thc the most important state occasions and civic events called for pageants, processions, ceremonies and often included extravagant firework displays too. A new generation of gunners used their military skills with gunpowder to devise entertainments as well as weaponry. Fireworks … Continue reading →

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Making Mountains and Music in Elysium…

Posted on 13/10/2018 by The Gardens Trust

As I hope I showed in a recent post John Evelyn the 17thc diarist and garden writer spent much of his life designing the perfect garden: Elysium Britannicum. It was to be an Eden encompassing a complete miniaturized version of … Continue reading →

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Lady Dorothy and Dangstein’s ‘aerial orchestra’

Posted on 16/07/2016 by The Gardens Trust

It could have been the headline in a red-top scandal-sheet: Earl’s young daughter found in ‘a compromising situation’ in the summer house. Today no-one would care, but in 1846 by being found hidden away in the garden, unchaperoned and … Continue reading →