Lecturer: Jonathan Conlin
Seasonal suburban resorts like Vauxhall provided generations of Londoners with a space to perambulate, flirt, eat and listen to music. This talk begins with the story of Restoration-era Spring Gardens before moving on to Ranelagh and Vauxhall in their Georgian heyday, finishing in the 1870s Cremorne Gardens. It explains and illustrates their multi-sensory appeal, shows how they inspired artists such as Hogarth and Whistler and shaped today’s Proms.
