Cremorne and the later London gardens

by Warwick William Wroth

[7] In 1850 under Borini; in 1851 under Isaacson, of the Grecian Theatre. In 1860, Marriott’s band.

[8a] At White Conduit House. See Wroth, London Pleasure-Gardens of the Eighteenth Century, p. 136.

[8b] Among the miscellaneous amusements of this period are: 1849, circus from Astley’s; storming of Mooltan, military and pyrotechnic spectacle. 1850, dahlia show. 1851, Franconi’s circus; the Bosjesmans, the bushmen of South Africa.

[9a] Theatrical Journal, 1852, p. 260.

[9b] London Pleasure-Gardens, p. 321.

[10a] Coxwell, My Life, second series, p. 13 f.; Boase, Biog. Dict., s.v. Latour.

[10b] Creole choristers under Cave and Mackney in 1846. Miss Love also sang in 1846. In 1851 Lambert Edwards became popular as a comic singer. He published a Cremorne Song-Book, which, both for matter and metre, is trying reading.

[10c] Stuart and Park, Variety Stage, p. 20 f.

[10d] Ibid., p. 18 f.

[12a] The programmes in the seventies were generally of virginal white, with embossed edges. They were scented by Rimmell, and some were printed in colours, with views of the gardens. They were of the ordinary theatre-programme shape.