VI.—SOUTH LONDON.
For Vauxhall Gardens (circa 1661–1859), Cumberland Gardens, etc., see London Pleasure-Gardens, Group VI.
Old King’s Arms, Southwark.—Now No. 68, Surrey Row—formerly Melancholy Walk (before 1852). (See Rendle and Norman, Old Inns of Southwark.)
The Horns, Kennington.—Now No. 214, Kennington Park Road. Gardens circa 1800–1824.
The Beehive, Walworth.—See supra, p. 81.
Victoria (or Royal Victoria) Gardens, Vauxhall.—Separated from Vauxhall Gardens by Miller’s Lane (now St. Oswald’s Place). Tate Street and part of Neville Street on site. Bounded on east by Vauxhall Street (circa 1837–1840).
Green Gate, Lambeth.—Now 114, Ethelred Street (circa 1710–1893).
Camberwell Grove House.—End of eighteenth century to circa 1846.
Nine Elms Tavern.—Now 33, Nine Elms Lane, S.W. The garden site now occupied by the wharf of John Bryan and Co. (circa 1840).
Springfield Watercress and Pleasure-Grounds.—Near the Stag Turnpike, Wandsworth Road (circa 1860). Fêtes, with dancing and illuminations.
Jamaica House, Bermondsey.—At the end of Cherry Garden Street, south of the Jamaica Road. Visited by Pepys, 1667. Gardens existed till circa 1858.
Cherry Gardens, Rotherhithe.—Part of Cherry Garden Street now on the site. There is a Cherry-Tree public-house, No. 50, in that street. Visited by Pepys, 1664. Gardens existed till circa 1846.
Mention must also be made of a few other nineteenth-century gardens which, though not in London, were a good deal frequented by Londoners:
Rosherville Gardens, Gravesend.—Established 1837, and still in existence.
The North Woolwich Gardens (1851 to circa 1883).—Now represented by the Pavilion Hotel and the Royal Victoria Gardens, a public recreation-ground (Sexby’s Municipal Parks, p. 457).
Beulah Spa (circa 1831–1854), with its archery and entertainments of the ‘fancy fair’ kind, the site now partly occupied by the Beulah Spa ‘Hydro’ and its grounds.
Anerley Gardens.—Near the station, Anerley (circa 1841–1868). (Thorne’s Environs, s.v. Anerley; Walford, Old and New London, vi. 314.)