The London pleasure gardens of the eighteenth century / by Warwick Wroth ; assisted by Arthur Edgar Wroth.
- Warwick William Wroth
- Date:
- 1896
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The London pleasure gardens of the eighteenth century / by Warwick Wroth ; assisted by Arthur Edgar Wroth. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![set of fireworks by several gentlemen lovers of that curious art—Rockets, line ditto, Katherine wheels, and many other things ; likewise will be shewn the manner of Prince Charles’s distressing the French after he passed the Rhine.” The concerts do not appear to have been given after this period but the Cobham’s Head long continued to exist as a tavern, and is marked in Horwood’s Plan of 1799. In December 1811 it was sold by auction, being described at that time as a roomy brick building with a large yard behind, probably all that was left of the gardens. About r86o during the operations for the Metropolitan Railway the Cobham’s Head was inun- dated by the bursting of a New River Main, and was so much injured by the undermining for the Railway that it had to be vacated. [Pinks’s Clerkenwell; Wheatley’s Lo?idon P. and P., “Coppice Row.”]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2897721x_0109.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
