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CREMORNE GARDENS

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 408 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CREMORNE GARDENS , formerly a popular resort by the See also:

side of the See also:Thames in See also:Chelsea, See also:London, See also:England. Originally the See also:property of the See also:earl of See also:Huntingdon (c. 1750), See also:father of See also:Steele's " See also:Aspasia," who built a See also:mansion here, the property passed through various hands into those of See also:Thomas See also:Dawson, See also:Baron Dartrey and See also:Viscount Cremorne (1725-1813), who greatly beautified it. It was subsequently sold and converted into a proprietary See also:place of entertainment, being popular as such from 1845 to 1877. It never, however, acquired the fashionable fame of See also:Vauxhall, and finally became so See also:great an annoyance to residents in the neighbourhood that a renewal of its See also:licence was refused; and the site of the gardens was soon built over. The name survives in Cremorne Road.

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