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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![tion. Standing in this place it was impossible to realise that we were within a few feet of the famous Well. A door, which we had imagined on entering to be the door of a cupboard, proved to be the entrance to a small cellar two or three steps below the level of the room. Here, indeed, we found the remains of the grotto that had once adorned the Well, but the healing spring no longer flowed.^ Eliza Place was swept away for the formation of Rosebery Avenue, and the two northernmost plots of the three little public gardens, opened by the London County Council on 31 July, 1895,^ Green, are now on part of the site of the old Spa. The Spa Cottages still remain, as well as the proprietor’s house in Lloyd’s Row, and beneath the coping-stone of the last-named the passer-by may read the inscription cut in bold letters : Islington Spa or New Tunbridge Wells. [Besides the authorities cited in the text and notes and in the account in Pinks’s Clerkenwell^ p. 398, ff., the following may be mentioned :—Experimental observations on the zuater of the mineral spring near Islington co??imonly called New Tunbridge Wells. London, 1751, 8vo ; another ed., 1773, 8vo (the Brit. Mus. copy of the latter contains some newspaper cuttings) ; Dodsley’s London.^ I7^L s.v. “Islington”; Kearsley’s Strangers’’ Guide., s.v. “Islington”; Lewis’s Islington; Gent. Mag. 1813, pt. 2, p, 554, ff. ; advertisements, &c., in Percival’s Sadler’s Wells Collection and in W. Coll.; Wheatley’s Lozidon, ii. 268, and iii. p-199-] VIEWS. I. View of the gardens, coffee-house, &c., engraved frontispiece ^ Mr. Philip Norman, writing in Notes and (Queries., 8th ser. vi. 1894, p. 457, says;—“I have seen (in the cellar of No. 6, Spa Cottages, behind the house at the corner of Lloyd’s Row) grotto work with stone pilasters and on each side steps descending. Here, I believe, was the chalybeate spring. For many years it has ceased to flow.” 2 Daily Telegraph., i August, 1895.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2897721x_0063.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
