Entertainment
§
Assembly Rooms
Almack's (1)
(2)
(a.k.a. Willis's Rooms -
see also here)
concerts, balls and
assemblies in 1844
§
Ballooning
experiences of
§
Clubs
'a ballot at a Pall Mall Club'
Albemarle Club
Alexandra Club
Alfred Club
1808
Army and Navy Club
1851
Arthur's Club
1811
Arts Club 1863
Athenaeum 1823
Badminton Club
Beaconsfield Club
Beefsteak Club
Berkeley Club
Boodles Club
Brookss Club
1764-5
Burlington Fine Arts Club
Carlton Club 1832
Cavendish Club
Chandos Club
character and dangers of clubs
City Carlton Club
City Liberal Club
City of London Club 1833
Civil Club
Civil Service Club
Cobden Club
Cocoa Tree Club
Conservative Club
The Constitutional Club
Cosmopolite
County Club
Crichton Club
Crockford's
Devonshire Club
drinking clubs
Doric Club
East India United Service Club
Empress
Erectheum Club
Eton and Harrow Club
Excelsior Working Men's Club
Farmers' Club
Free Trade Club
Garrick 1831
German Athenaeum 1869
Grafton Club
Green Park Club
Green Room Club
Gresham Club 1843
Grillion's Club
Grosvenor Crescent Club
Guards' Club
Hanover Square Club
Hogarth Club
Hurlingham Club
Isthmian Club 1882
Junior Army and Navy Club
Junior Athenaeum Club
Junior Carlton
Junior Conservative Club 1889
Junior Constitutional Club 1887
Junior Garrick Club
Junior Oxford and Cambridge Club
Junior United Services Club
Marlborough Club
Miltary, Naval and County Service Club
National Club
National Liberal Club 1887
National Sporting Club
1891
Naval and Military Club
New City Club
New University Club
New Vagabond Club
Oriental Club 1824
Orleans Club
Oxford and Cambridge Club 1838
Pall Mall Club
Parthenon Club
Phoenix Club
Pioneer Club (1)
(2)
Playgoer's Club
Portland Club
Pratt's Club
Raleigh Club
Ranelagh Club
Reform Club 1832
Road Club
Rous Club
Royal Thames Yacht Club
Russell Club
St. George's Club
St. James Club
St. Stephen's Club
Sandringham Club (1)
(2)
(3)
Savage Club 1837
Savile Club
Scandinavian Club
Scientific Club
Sesame Club
Smithfield Club
Temple Club
Thatched House Club
Tower Hamlets Liberal Club
Travellers Club 1829
Turf Club
Union Club 1824
United Club
United Eton and Harrow Club
United Service Club 1816
United University Club 1826
United Whist Club
Unity Club
University Club
University and Public Schools Club
Verulam Club
Victoria Club
Victoria (Women's)
Wanderers' Club
Westminster Club
White Friar's Club
Whitehall Club
White's Club
Whittington Club 1847
Windham Club 1828
women's clubs (1)
(2)
Women Journalist's Club
Working Men's Clubs
[
see also
Education
]
Working Women's Clubs
Writer's Club (1)
(2)
§
Dancing
see also
Food - Night Houses, Supper Rooms
Argyll Rooms
(
see also
dancing rooms
below
)
at Almack's (1)
(2)
a bal masque (1)
(2)
balls
Caldwell's
can-can
a children's ball at the Mansion House
concerts, balls and assemblies in 1844
costermongers dancing
dancing academies
'dancing rooms'
'The Dancing Saloon'
East End 'dancing saloons'/pubs (1)
(2)
'fancy-balls'
Highbury Barn
Holborn Casino
hops
Laurent's Casino
Mott's (Portland Rooms)
polka
Weippert's (Princess's Concert Rooms)
§
Drinking and Drugs
see also
Food and Drink - Night Houses
§
'Cups, Cocktails and Grogs'
§
Hangover cures
§
Opium
Opium (Mrs. Beeton)
Opium dens
see also
Tiger Bay
§
Public Houses, drinks and places to drink
see also
Food - Night Houses, Supper Rooms
see also
Food - Restaurants
see also
Professions - Food and Drink
Albion Tavern
Angel, Islington
'At a Black House'
'beer shop' in Whitechapel
The Belvidere
The "Blue Dog"
Blue Posts (1)
(2)
Bull and Mouth, coaching inn
The Cambrian Stores
champagne, slang for
character of
The Cheshire Cheese
coaching inns
The Cock Tavern
Coger's Hall
cooper (drink)
'The Costermongers' Free-and-Easy'
Criterion American Bar
(Living London, 1902)
The Crown
Crown and Anchor
delivery of liquor
dog's-nose
Dr. Johnson's Tavern
The Eagle
Eel-pie House
Elephant and Castle
'free and easies' and pub concerts
gambling in pubs
George Inn, Borough
Gerard's Hall Inn
gin palaces
'Green Hog Tavern'
hiring and paying
working men at public houses
'Inns of Old London' (Timbs)
interiors (1)
(2, Punch 1860)
in the East End
illegal drinking out of hours (1)
(2)
'The Jolly Sandboys' (mourners and drink)
London Tavern (1)
(2)
(3 - a meeting at the Tavern; ILN, 1845)
(4 - Grand Dinner; ILN, Mar 24, 1849)
'The Mogul'
'Night-Houses'
Old Tabard Inn
an 'open bar' (
Living London
, 1902)
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'The Pious Public House'
police duties re public houses (1903)
porter
private drinking clubs
prostitutes in pubs
pub snacks
public houses in Soho & West London
pub signs (1)
(2)
shandy-gaff
The Ship
Short's Wine Bar (Living London, 1902)
Thatched House Tavern
Three Nuns Inn
types of public house: (1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
(9)
whiskey
wine bars in City
§
Smoking
cigarettes and cigars
disease caused by smoking
lighters (ad,
Pick Me Up
, 1890)
pipes (Punch, 1859)
smoking in public (1)
(2)
(3)
§
Temperance Movement
coffee-taverns
'Drink and Drunkenness in London' (1897)
drinking amongst the poor
drink, evils of (Tempted London)
drinking amongst city workers
'For Love O' Liquor'
'Help Myself' Society
meetings
'No-one drinks water'
opinions of
'Pewkers' Hall'
speakers
'Temperance'
teetotallers amongst dockers (Mayhew
)
teetotallers (Punch parody)
'Under the Yellow Flag'
§
Exhibitions and Tourism
Albert Palace
(1885-?1894)
African Exhibition, 1895
American Exhibition, 1887
Colonial and Indian Exhibition 1886
Chinese Exhibition
Danish Exhibition
Earls Court
§
Great Exhibition, 1851
(and 1854-1936 at Sydenham)
see also
Buildings - Crystal Palace
see also
food sold at Crystal Palace
a creche at Sydenham
perception of
sellers of postcards
Thames Bank Depositary
("The Mechanics' Home for 1851")
India and Ceylon Exhibition 1896
Indian Empire Exhibition 1895
International Exhibition 1862
International Exhibition 1871
International Exhibition 1872
International Exhibition 1873
International Exhibition 1874
International Fisheries Exhibition 1883
International Health Exhibition 1884 and 1885
International Exhibition of
Inventions and Music
International Universal Exhibition 1898
The Japanese Village
1885-c.1887
Military displays
Olympia (aka National Agricultural Hall)
§
Sight-seeing
American visitors (1)
(2)
'sight-seeing'
trooping the guard
Spanish Exhibition 1889
§
Working Men's Exhibitions
North London Working Classes
Industrial Exhibition
South London Working Classes
Industrial Exhibition
§
Fairs and Events
Barnet Fair (1)
(2)
(3)
Bartholomew Fair
cattle shows,
see
Agricultural Hall
county fairs outside London
'The Day after the Fair' (Greenwood)
Fairlop Fair
Greenwich Fair
Lord Mayor's Show
May-Fair
'Plebeian Flower Shows'
'A Suburban Fair'
§
Freak-shows and Side-shows
description of
East End shows (1)
(2)
the "Elephant Man"
the "Fairy Queen"
at Greenwich Fair
Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng
shooting-galleries / rifle-galleries
waxworks, at fair
§
Gambling
amongst the poor
betting
gambling (1)
(2)
(3)
gambling at billiards
gambling houses
gambling in pubs
at Greenwich Fair
police regulation (1903)
see also
Sketches in London, Chpt. XI
see also
The Seven Curses of London Chpt.22
see also
Round London, Pt2. Chpt. XI
§
Gardens and Spas
Bagnigge Wells Gardens
Beulah Spa (Norwood)
Botanical Garden, Chelsea
Botanical Society Gardens (Regent's Park)
Brunswick Gardens
Cremorne Gardens
The Eagle
Earl's Court gardens
Embankment Gardens
Flora Gardens, Camberwell
Highbury Barn
Hornsey Wood
immorality in 'Tea Gardens' (1)
(2)
Islington Spa
"Johnson's Retreat"
list of minor pleasure gardens
Kensington Gardens
Kew Gardens
Manor House Gardens, Chelsea
Mermaid Tavern
Montpelier Tea Gardens, Walworth
New Globe Pleasure-Grounds
North Woolwich Gardens
Red House, Battersea
Rosemary Branch
Rosherville Gardens
Royal Horticultural Society
Royal Pavilion Gardens
see
North Woolwich Gardens
Royal Standard Pleasure Gardens
St. Chad's Wells
Soyer's Symposium Gardens
Surrey Zoological Gardens
Tea Gardens (incl. list from 1844)
Temple Gardens
Vauxhall Gardens
Weston's Retreat, Kentish Town
White Conduit House
Willesden People's Garden
§
Holidays and Public Days
see also
Sea-Side
, below
a Bank Holiday (1)
(2)
Beating the bounds (1)
(2)
Boxing Day (1)
(2)
'Boxing Night' (1)
(2)
camping out
Christmas-Box nuisance
'Christmas' by Alfred Crowquill
(ILN, 1844)
Christmas - 'The Mistletoe' (ILN, 1846)
Christmas cards
Christmas clubs
Christmas decorations
Christmas dinner, fetched from bakers
'A Christmas Dip'
Christmas Eve (Cruikshank)
Christmas excess
Christmas in 1850 (Leech)
Christmas in 1851
Christmas in London (1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
Christmas tree
continental travel
cost of excursions
Easter in London
Easter Monday (1)
(2)
'Excursion Clubs'
Good Friday
Halloween
Innocents' Day
May 1st
need for
November 5th
'Oyster Day'
Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday)
'Saint Monday'
Sundays
tourist agencies
travel agents
Valentine's Day
Whit Monday tourist attractions, 1888
'Working Men's Saturdays'
§
Household Amusements
§
Lectures
"lectured in Basinghall Street"
lectures
Penny Readings (1)
(2)
(3)
§
Museums, Public Buildings and Galleries
= hyperlink to 1895 map
see also
Buildings, Monunments and Museums
Adelaide Gallery
Albert Palace (1885-?1894)
Antiquarian Museum
Architectural Exhibition
Architectural Museum
artists
Bethnal Green Museum
British Artists (Exhibition)
British Institution
British Museum
The Chinese Collection / Exhibition
Christy Collection
City Art Gallery & Museum
The Colosseum
The Cosmorama
Customs House Museum
Dr Kahn's Grand Anatomical Museum
Dorι Gallery
Dubourg's Museum
Dudley Gallery
Dulwich Gallery
East India House
Egyptian Hall
Entomological Museum
Flaxman Gallery
French Gallery
Foundling Hospital
Gallery of Illustration
Geological Museum
Greenwich Hospital and Royal Naval College
Grosvenor Gallery
India Museum (South Kensington)
Institute of Painters in Oil Colours
Institute of Painters in Water Colours
see
Royal Institute of Painters ...
below
Jamrach's
Linwood Gallery
list of art galleries
Madame Caplin's Anatomical and
Physiological Gallery
Missionary Museum
Model of St. Peter's
Museum of Building Appliances
Museum of Economic Geology
aka
Museum of Practical Geology
see
Geological Museum,
above
Napoleon Museum
National Gallery
National Portrait Gallery (Bethnal Green)
Natural History Museum
Naval Models Museum (Greenwich Hospital)
Oriental Museum
Painted Hall
see
Greenwich Hospital
painters held in particular galleries
Parkes Museum of Hygiene
Patent Museum
Phrenological Museum
Polytechnic
Regent Gallery
Royal Academy of Arts
Royal Asiatic Society
Royal College of Surgeons
Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours
Saint James's Bazaar
Saville House (1)
(2)
see
Linwood Gallery
Soane Museum
South Kensington Museum
Suffolk Street Gallery (from ILN, 1843)
Surrey Institution
Tate Gallery
Tower of London Museum
Tussaud's Exhibition of Waxworks
United Service Museum
Veterinary College Museum
Wallace Collection
Water-Colour Drawings Exhibition
Whitechapel Gallery
Woolwich Arsenal
§
Music and Musicians
as an occupation for women
Alboni
the Apollonicon
Balfe, Michael W.
concerts
glee singing
Grisi
'Harmonic Meetings' / 'Free and Easies' &c.
(1)
(2)
(3)
Jenny Lind (1)
(2)
list of public halls
'Monday pops'
music sung in supper-rooms
music sung in the home
musical societies
'The Musical World' (Sala)
Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre
Patti (Adelina Patti, opera singer)
Prince's Hall
private concerts
Queen's Concert Rooms
Queen's Hall
Royal Academy of Music
St. James's Hall
St. Martin's Hall
sheet music
Store Street Music Hall (from ILN, 1843)
see also
Italian Street Musicians
see also
Professions - Entertainers -
Street Musicians
et al.
see also
Theatre and Shows - Music Hall
§
Music Hall
see
Theatre and Shows
below
§
Parks, Commons and Heaths
= hyperlink to 1895 map
see also
Gardens and Spas
,
above
Alexandra Park
Battersea Park
Blackheath
Bonner's Fields
Brompton Park
Clapham Common
comparison of parks
Dulwich Park
Finsbury Park
Green Park
Greenwich Park
Hampstead Heath
Hyde Park
Kennington Park
parks and drunks
'The Parks'
Primrose Hill
Regents Park
Richmond Park
Southwark Park
St James's Park
Vauxhall Park
Victoria Park
Waterlow Park
Wimbledon Common
§
Sea-side
see also
Transport - River - Steamers - Character of
Gravesend
Hastings
opinions of
Ramsgate
Restall's Excursions
'sea-side insanity'
§
Societies
see also
Education - Professional / Technical
see also
Music - Musical Societies
above
see also
Organisations - Scientific Societies
Aeronautical Club
Alpine Club
Art Union of London
The Beef-Steak Society
bird fanciers (1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
The Botanical Society of London
change-ringing (bell ringing)
coaching clubs
debating societies
Dilettanti Society
dog-shows
Horticultural Society of London
see
Royal Horticultural Society,
below
Kennel Club
Literary and Artistic Societies
'The Lumber Troop'
Microscopical Societies
'miscellaneous societies' (Dickens's Dictionary)
New Vagabonds
Numismatic Society
Royal Agricultural Society
Royal Asiatic Society
Royal Horticultural Society
Royal Society of Literature
Smithfield Club
Society for Encouragement of the Arts
Society of Antiquaries
Society of Arts
Society of British Artists
Society of Painters in Water Colours
§
Sport
angling
athletics
archery
bagatelle
bicycling
see also
Transport - Roads - Bicylces
billiards
blood sports
bowls
boxing
chess
clay pigeon shooting
cricket
football
golf
gymnastics (1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
pigeon fancying
ping-pong
polo
racing
riding
rowing, sailing, sculling & yachting
rugby
shooting
skating & rollerskating
'Some London Contests' (1902)
swimming
tennis (1)
(2)
(3)
walking (1)
(2)
wrestling
§
Street Entertainments
see also
Professions - Entertainers -
Street Musicians
et al.
acrobats (street) (1)
(2)
(3)
(4 - ILN, 30th March 1850)
donkey rides
gallanty or gallantee shows (1)
(2)
performing animals (1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
potato-thrower
puppets (1)
(2)
Punch and Judy
raree-show
street entertainers
§
Theatre and Shows
§
Zoos and Menageries
Cross's Menagerie at Exeter Change
Jamrach's
London Zoo
menagerie outside the National Gallery
Surrey Zoological Gardens
Tower Menagerie