{69} SITE.—A triangular piece of ground, bounded on the north by part of Shaftesbury Street, on the south by part of Wenlock Street; on the east by Wallbrook Street (now Cropley Street), on the west by Shepherdess Walk. ENTERTAINMENTS.—The singers were of the tavern-concert rank. Miss Tunstall sang in 1843. In 1841 (or 1840?) Herring made a hit in _The Imp of the Devil’s Gorge_ pantomime (_cf._ Blanchard’s _Life_, p. 479). In 1849 he was clown in _Sinbad the Sailor_. In 1840 Van Amburgh, the well-known lion-tamer of Vauxhall, etc., appeared with his lions and ‘colossal elephant.’ In 1837–1840, Devon and Cornwall wrestlers. {70a} The tavern is mentioned in Pigott’s _Directory_ for 1827 as under John Gardner. In 1839, and still in the fifties, the proprietor was Thomas Gardner. {70b} The Globe club was still active in 1840 (Colburn’s _Kalendar_, 1840, p. 164). {73} Wright was landlord, 1837–1838. {75} The woodcut on Ireland’s bill announcing the race was taken from an old block representing, not Garratt, but Barry. {79} See Cremorne, _supra_, p. 5. {80} In 1850 ‘the immortal Charles Sloman,’ the improvisatore, appeared; 1852, Mrs. Graham’s balloon; 1855, Walter Stacey, manager; the Russelli family performed. {81a} W. C. Hazlitt’s _Four Generations_, etc., pp. 57, 58. {81b} The Montpelier Club afterwards (from 1840, or earlier) had their ground at the Beehive, Walworth. In 1844 the Beehive ground was required for building purposes, and the club obtained a lease (March, 1845) of the Oval, and in a year or two was merged in the Surrey County Club. The Beehive public-house, now 62, Carter Street (on the east of the site of the Surrey Gardens), represents an old tavern (1779 or earlier), which had about five acres of ground attached to it, with a tea-garden. In these gardens the balloon of the ill-fated Harris (see _supra_, p. 58) was exhibited in 1824 (_cf._ H. H. Montgomery’s _Kennington_, p. 169 _f._). The old Beehive tavern was a long, low building with a veranda. In the garden was a maze and the original proprietor’s cottage, connected with the adjoining fields by a bridge over a stream. Mr. Wemmick’s Walworth residence in _Great Expectations_—a toy-house with a bridge—may be reminiscent of this (_cf._ H. H. Montgomery’s _Old Cricket and Cricketers_, London [1890], p. 44 _f._). {82} At one time, apparently in the forties, there was a theatre in the gardens, at which Jefferini (Jeffreys), the long-legged clown, performed (Blanchard’s _Life_, p. 51). {83} Except in its last year (1877). A ball-room was built in 1850. {84} Marked in a map, 1814 (_e.g._), as the Manor Farm Pond. {86a}