History of Brighthelmston; or, Brighton as I View it and Others Knew It: With a Chronological Table of Local EventsErredge, John Ackerson
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History of Brighthelmston; or, Brighton as I View it and Others Knew It: With a Chronological Table of Local Events
Erredge, John Ackerson
Brighton (England) -- History
The Prince Regent.—“Rule Britannia.”
The Queen and Royal Family.—“The Brunswick March.”
The Duke of Wellington.—“See the Conquering Hero comes.”
The Allied Sovereigns.—“The March to Paris.”
Louis XVIII.—“Henri Quatre.”
May Peace produce Plenty and Plenty Gratitude.—“Speed the Plough.”
Prosperity and Unanimity to the Town of Brighton.—“Tight little
Island.”
The after part of the day was devoted to dancing, blind-man’s-buff,
jingling matches, foot-racing, stool-ball, kiss-in-the-ring, jumping in
sacks, &c.; and the happy throng concluded the day by joining hands and
forming long chains of human beings, and thus in high glee they “threaded
the tailor’s needle” to Castle Square, where, after singing “God Save the
King,” they, in the most orderly manner, dispersed, and made for their
several homes.
Cricket was a favourite pastime with the Prince of Wales, who was
frequently engaged in the manly game with the noblemen and gentlemen of
his suite, on the Royal Ground, which had been granted for his use by Mr.
Thomas Reed Kemp, the Lord of the Manor. His Royal Highness, however,
upon coming to the throne, retired from cricket, and hence the Ground was
given up. Mr. Kemp then made the grant of a portion of it to the Town
for the recreation of the inhabitants, and the road to the north of the
Level was formed.
In 1822, an enterprising townsman, Mr. James Ireland, became the
purchaser of ten acres of the land immediately north of the road, and in
the following year, Ireland’s Gardens and Cricket Ground were opened to
the public. The original entrance was at the south-west comer, where was
a neat lodge that conducted to the cricket ground, and an excellent
bowling green, with raised banks, and a billiard room with colonnade and
rustic seats in front. At the lower or east end was the tavern
department, the Hanover Arms Inn, where, also, was an excellent fives’
court. The Gardens were approached either by crossing the Cricket
Ground, or by a separate road that skirted the property.
Mr. Ireland was the successor of Mr. Daniel Constable, who, with his
brother William as shopman, commenced May 29th, 1802, the drapery
business, now the well-known establishment of Messrs. Hannington and Son,
at No. 3, North Street. Mr. Ireland became the purchaser of the business
in 1806, and it passed from him to the late Mr. Hannington, the successor
also, at No. 4, of Mr. William Diplock, who, in the summer of 1819, when
Brighton churchyard was despoiled of its dead, announced himself as sole
agent for the sale of patent metallic coffins, of the security of which
he assured the public, every person would be satisfied. Previous to the
formation of the Hanover Grounds, Mr. Ireland carried on the business of
woollen draper and undertaker at No. 10, North Street.
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