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Regency Hot Spots: Greenwich Hospital

By Anne | October 30, 2019 - 6:46 am |November 15, 2019 Regency Hot Spots

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Greenwich Hospital painting by William Turner

Greenwich Hospital was neither a hot spot nor a not spot, but rather a place of note in London from 1692 to 1869. As a Continue →

Regency Hot Spots: Covent Garden

By Anne | October 12, 2019 - 6:35 am |October 29, 2019 Regency Hot Spots

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If there was any doubt that the once fruit and vegetable market had been inundated by red light district activities by the Georgian era, I Continue →

Regency Travel: The Grand Junction Canal

By Anne | September 12, 2019 - 6:52 am |October 1, 2019 Regency Hot Spots, Regency Travel

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Grand Junction Canal at Paddington in early 1800s

A View from London (1804) Created in an open field in Paddington, the large Canal Basin became the terminus for goods and passengers from all Continue →

Regency Hot Spots: Dutton’s Circulating Library

By Anne | August 16, 2019 - 7:50 am |August 30, 2019 Regency Hot Spots

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La Belle Assemblee, 1807 On 45 Gracechurch Street in London, Dutton’s Universal Circulating Library and booksellers operated from 1799 until sometime in the late 1820s. It was one Continue →