During the first forty years of the present century the gardens were much frequented by the middle classes, especially on Sundays, when admittance was by a six-penny ticket including refreshments. For several years, from about 1790, a fair was held on the first of May at or near the Yorkshire Stingo, and the May-dance with Jack-in-the-Green took place.[121] This fair was suppressed as a nuisance in the early part of the present century. In 1836 and for a few years following, the Yorkshire Stingo had its Apollo, or Royal Apollo, Saloon, in which concerts, vaudevilles and comic burlettas were given every evening.[122] On gala nights, balloon ascents, fireworks and other entertainments took place in the grounds. The admission was one shilling. The tea-gardens and bowling green were closed about 1848, and the present County Court and the Marylebone Baths and Wash-Houses,[123] nearly adjoining the present Yorkshire Stingo on the east were built on their site. [Thomas Smith’s _Marylebone_, p. 185; Walford, iv. 410; v. 256; Larwood and Hotten, _Signboards_, p. 384; _Picture of London_, 1802 and 1829; Wheatley’s _London P. and P._ “Yorkshire Stingo.”] VIEWS. 1. “The Yorkshire Stingo in 1770,” a small sketch in Clinch’s _Marylebone_, p. 46, showing the tavern and the entrance to the tea-gardens. 2. View of the new County Court and the Baths and the Wash-Houses, built upon the ground of the late tea-gardens, &c., of the Yorkshire Stingo Tavern. A woodcut, 1849. Crace, _Cat._ p. 567, No. 89. BAYSWATER TEA GARDENS The Bayswater Tea Gardens, situated in a region once noted for its springs and salubrious air, were originally the Physic Garden of “Sir” John Hill, botanist, playwright, and quack doctor:-- “His farces are physic, his physic a farce is,” and in this garden he grew the plants for his wonderful Water Dock Essence and Balm of Honey. Hill died in 1775, and his garden was (some years before 1795) turned into a place of amusement, known as the Bayswater Tea Gardens, and much frequented by the denizens of Oxford Street and neighbourhood.[124] Views of 1796 show the boxes and arbours, and a family party, more plebeian than that in George Morland’s “Tea Garden,” in full enjoyment of their tea. Waiters are bustling about with huge kettles crying “’Ware kettle, scaldings!” The Bayswater Tea Gardens are mentioned in the _Picture of London_, 1823–1829, among those frequented by Londoners of the middle classes. From about 1836 they appear to have been called the Flora Tea Gardens, Bayswater. [Illustration: THE BAYSWATER TEA GARDENS, 1796.]