Madame Tussaud came through all this in her seventieth year, with twenty years of activity still before her; and, after a long tour through provincial towns, she took her Exhibition to Blackheath, on the south-eastern side of London, attracted, no doubt, by the fact that that place had become a fashionable resort owing to the residence there, some years previously, of Queen Caroline, the estranged wife of George IV. CHAPTER XI An old placard--Princess Augusta’s testimonial--Great success at Gray’s Inn Road--Madame initiates promenade concerts--Bygone tableaux. An old placard now in our possession informs us that at Blackheath the Exhibition was housed in the Assembly Room at the Green Man Hotel. The exact date when it left there is not known, but we do know that it had previously found a temporary abode in the Town Hall, Brighton. There it was visited early in 1833 by members of the Royal Family, then in residence at the Pavilion, as is vouched for in the following quaint notice. The placard we give in full, not only on account of its quaint wording, but because it gives a good idea of the Exhibition as it then existed: NOW OPEN! WITH DECIDED SUCCESS! The Promenade being Crowded every Evening! In the only Room that could be had sufficiently spacious for the purpose, The GREAT ASSEMBLY ROOM of the late ROYAL LONDON BAZAAR, GRAY’S INN ROAD (Which has been fitted up for the purpose). Carriages may wait in the Arena. Lately arrived from the Town Hall, Brighton, and last from the Assembly Room, Green Man Hotel, Blackheath. SPLENDID NOVELTY, Coronation Groups and Musical Promenade. ENTIRELY NEW. MADAME TUSSAUD AND SONS