PAGE PREFACE v CREMORNE GARDENS 1 MANOR-HOUSE BATHS AND GARDENS, CHELSEA 25 BATTY’S HIPPODROME AND SOYER’S SYMPOSIUM, KENSINGTON 30 THE HIPPODROME, NOTTING HILL 34 THE ROYAL OAK, BAYSWATER 37 CHALK FARM 39 EEL-PIE (OR SLUICE) HOUSE, HIGHBURY 42 WESTON’S RETREAT, KENTISH TOWN 44 THE MERMAID, HACKNEY 46 THE ROSEMARY BRANCH, HOXTON 48 SIR HUGH MYDDELTON’S HEAD, ISLINGTON 52 THE PANARMONION GARDENS, KING’S CROSS 54 THE EAGLE AND GRECIAN SALOON 57 ALBERT SALOON AND ROYAL STANDARD PLEASURE-GARDENS 68 NEW GLOBE PLEASURE-GROUNDS, MILE END ROAD 70 THE RED HOUSE, BATTERSEA 72 BRUNSWICK GARDENS (OR VAUXHALL PLEASURE-GARDENS), VAUXHALL 77 FLORA GARDENS, CAMBERWELL 79 MONTPELIER TEA-GARDENS, WALWORTH 81 SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS 83 LIST OF MINOR LONDON GARDENS, NINETEENTH CENTURY 93 INDEX 98 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE WATERSIDE ENTRANCE, CREMORNE _Frontispiece_ From an etching by W. Greaves, 1871. THE STADIUM, CHELSEA 3 From a lithograph, published in 1831. ‘BARON’ NICHOLSON AT A ‘JUDGE AND JURY’ TRIAL 3 From _Life in London Illustrated_, _circa_ 1855. PLAN OF CREMORNE, _circa_ 1870–1877 6 THE DANCING-PLATFORM, CREMORNE, 1847 9 From the _Pictorial Times_, June, 1847. CREMORNE GARDENS IN THE HEIGHT OF THE SEASON 11 By M’Connell, 1858. THE FIREWORK GALLERY, CREMORNE 17 From an etching by W. Greaves, 1870. THE DANCING-PLATFORM, CREMORNE 23