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Six Essays on Vauxhall Gardens by David E. Coke

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  • ‘Princess Seraphina’ steps out at Vauxhall Gardens

  • ‘Representations of the Child, displayed at Vauxhall Gardens and the Foundling Hospital’

  • A litter-bin now marks the spot in Vauxhall Gardens where once stood Roubiliac’s life-size statue of Handel: Free Vauxhall Gardens guided history walk, 21 May 2018

  • Balloons

  • Charles Green (1785-1870)

  • Dr Johnson and the Vauxhall Gardens Mysteries

  • Fireworks at Vauxhall

  • Fun and Games at Vauxhall: ‘The New and Favorite Game of Mother Goose and the Golden Egg’, a board game of 1808

  • Handel at Vauxhall

  • Henry Evans Evanion, ‘The Royal Conjuror’ of Kennington

  • Hogarth’s Garden: A concert by London Early Opera – 23 June 2023

  • How advertising pioneer Thomas Bish revived Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens

  • How Vauxhall Gardens saved English music, 1661-1859

  • John Mackay’s birthday visit to Vauxhall Gardens on 31 July 1837

  • Juba – William Henry Lane (1825-1852?)

  • Just published by The Vauxhall Society: Six Essays on Vauxhall Gardens by David E. Coke

  • Knaves or ‘Slaves’? – the Waiters of Vauxhall Gardens

  • Larkhall (Lark Hall)

  • Robert Cocking: rise and fatal fall of a pioneer parachutist

  • Sir John Soane at Vauxhall Gardens

  • Tableaux Pyrotechniques, or Picture-Models at Vauxhall Gardens

  • The 1836 ‘Royal Vauxhall Balloon’ ascent that set an eight-decade world distance record for manned flight

  • The St Peter’s organ appeal: time to pull out all the stops?

  • The True Cost of Fireworks: Sarah Ann Vaughan Williams and Caroline Bridges, two 11-year-olds

  • Time-travelling back to 1752 and Vauxhall Gardens via Virtual Reality

  • Vauxhall

  • Vauxhall Gardens and St Peter’s Church

  • Vauxhall Gardens: A History – review by Andrew Saint

  • Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens

  • Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens: famous names

  • Vauxhall, a Poem, from the ‘Mercure de France’ of November 1750

  • Vauxhall’s other pleasure gardens and a ‘Vauxhall Cross Plan’ of yesterday

  • Watercolour nostalgia for Vauxhall Gardens

  • When Vauxhall Gardens went global but The Grove lost its groove and the bandstand missed a beat

  • When ‘Vauxhall’ changed gear and hit the road to make motoring history

  • Who was the mystery ‘Lady of Colour’ who sang and gave a pianoforte recital at Vauxhall Gardens in 1822?

  • “The Great Original” – C.H. Simpson, Master of Ceremonies at the Royal Gardens Vauxhall 1797–1835