The wonderful village; a further record of some famous folk and places by Chelsea reach . nt andfickle. Yet it survived, season after season, withvarying fortunes but with considerable vitality, tothe end of the eighteenth century ; and was thescene of at least two bright entertainments in thenineteenth, before its portals were finally closedon 8th July, 1803. Such a record, in those days,when London was a much more definite city, whenartificial light was primitive, moving about difficultand unsafe, and spectacular amusement limited inmany ways, gives a special interest to the story ofthe Plea
The wonderful village; a further record of some famous folk and places by Chelsea reach . nt andfickle. Yet it survived, season after season, withvarying fortunes but with considerable vitality, tothe end of the eighteenth century ; and was thescene of at least two bright entertainments in thenineteenth, before its portals were finally closedon 8th July, 1803. Such a record, in those days,when London was a much more definite city, whenartificial light was primitive, moving about difficultand unsafe, and spectacular amusement limited inmany ways, gives a special interest to the story ofthe Pleasure Gardens round London in general,and of Ranelagh, for me, in particular. Descriptions of the place, more or less detailedand more or less flamboyant, are to be found inalmost all the eighteenth century guides and sur-veys of London and its environs ; one of the mostcircumstantial, perhaps, being in The Ambulator sixty years, but this is obviously a mistake. The Rotundawas built in 1741, and the place was^closed in 1803, havingbeen little visited during the previous ten years. % ^^. ? I i !*?? •?3 ?. -•?«»i,
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