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Regency (N)ot Spots: Bermondsey Spa

By Anne | March 16, 2019 - 7:32 am |April 9, 2019 Regency Hot Spots

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Around 1770, Thomas Keyse discovered a chalybeate spring in Bermondsey. By 1780, the Vauxhall inspired (but on much smaller scale) Bermondsey Spa Pleasure Gardens was Continue →

Regency Hot Spots: Paternoster Row

By Anne | February 20, 2019 - 6:57 am |March 8, 2019 Regency Hot Spots, Regency Literature

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The center of London’s publishing trade since as early as the 1550s, Paternoster Row in the City of London may have originally started as the Continue →

Regency Hot Spots: Bushy Park

By Anne | November 26, 2018 - 7:51 am |December 11, 2018 Regency Hot Spots

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London and Its Environs; Or the General Ambulator, and Pocket Companion…, 1820 The second largest of London’s Royal Parks, behind Richmond Park, its immediately north Continue →

Regency Hot Spots: Angelo’s School of Arms

By Anne | November 16, 2018 - 6:54 am |November 27, 2018 Regency Hot Spots, Regency Men

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Angelo’s School of Arms in Soho was founded by legendary fencing master Domenico Angelo in 1758. Domenico authored a book on fencing and is credited Continue →