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16-422: Established in 1698 as a public wells, the area rapidly grew in popularity and a pump room was built along with an assembly room . Usage at the wells declined in the nineteenth century and the building was demolished, but is commemorated by a memorial fountain opposite it erected in 1882. Wells Passage is a footpath that follows uphill from the fountain to the headspring in what is now Well Road . The Wells Tavern

32-781: A stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Assembly room In Great Britain and Ireland , especially in the 18th and 19th centuries, assembly rooms were gathering places for members of the higher social classes open to members of both sexes. At that time most entertaining was done at home and there were few public places of entertainment open to both sexes besides theatres (and there were few of those outside London). Upper class men had more options, including coffee houses and later gentlemen's clubs . Major sets of assembly rooms in London, in spa towns such as Bath , and in important provincial cities such as York , were able to accommodate hundreds, or in some cases over

48-563: A haunt of its 'hero', the highwayman Macheath . The tavern had become a resort for gambling, and "There will be deep play tonight" Macheath says to a confederate, "and consequently money may be pick'd up on the road. Meet me there, and I'll give you the hint who is worth setting." The real highwayman Dick Turpin was a visitor in the 1720s . The gardens were used for, amongst other entertainments, gambling , cock-fighting , bull-baiting and boxing matches (with both male and female contestants). Marylebone Gardens were officially reorganized as

64-588: A high brick wall and set about with fruit trees, had a carriage entrance in the High Street of Marylebone village and another entrance from the fields at the back. Its center was an open oval bowling green encompassed by a wide gravelled walk and many smaller walks and greens surrounded by clipped quickset hedges, which were "kept in good order, and indented like town walls." Marylebone Gardens were mentioned by John Gay in The Beggar's Opera (1728) as

80-511: A thousand people for events such as masquerade balls (masked balls), assembly balls ( conventional balls ), public concerts and assemblies (simply gatherings for conversation, perhaps with incidental music and entertainments) or Salons . By later standards these were formal events: the attendees were usually screened to make sure no one of insufficient rank gained admittance; admission might be subscription only; and unmarried women were chaperoned . Nonetheless, assemblies played an important part in

96-456: A venue for concerts and other entertainments in 1738 by Daniel Gough, the new proprietor of the Rose tavern. An organ by Richard Bridge was installed. Halls were built for shelter in 1739, and the entrance fee was increased to a sixpence to keep out the undesired poor. Silver-plated season tickets were also available. Refreshments were another draw for the mid-century Marylebone Gardens, under

112-529: The Hampstead Wells Trust. The houses were a speculative development by Edward Gotto, who lived in The Logs , Well Road. In 1774 Roman pottery was discovered in the street, suggesting that a Roman road may have run through Hampstead. 51°33′32″N 0°10′23″W  /  51.559°N 0.173°W  / 51.559; -0.173 This London road or road transport-related article is

128-423: The artist John Constable , who lived in the street from 1827 until his death in 1837 and whose house is now Grade II* listed , architect Temple Moore and early Socialist politician Henry Hyndman . Constable and Hyndman's houses are commemorated with blue plaques . Nos. 21-27, formerly called Foley Avenue, are an eclectic pair of semi-detached houses designed by Henry Simpson Legg , architect and surveyor for

144-512: The ballrooms of major hotels as British hotels became larger from the railway age onwards. London also had a number of outdoor "public gardens" where similar entertainments took place. They were more commercial establishments and tended to have less exclusive rules on admission. Each had at least one major indoor space for balls and the like. See: Marylebone Gardens , Vauxhall Gardens , Ranelagh Gardens and Cremorne Gardens . Marylebone Gardens Marylebone Gardens or Marybone Gardens

160-498: The direction of the caterer John Trusler , who took over the management about 1756, and presented public dinners and breakfasts. His daughter made the popular Marylebone tarts and cakes. "Tarts of a twelvepenny size," reads the advertisement of 1760, "will be made every day from one to three o'clock... The almond cheesecake will be always hot at one o'clock as usual." Once the Great Room for balls and supper had been erected on

176-531: The marriage market of the day. A major set of assembly rooms consisted of a main room and several smaller subsidiary rooms such as card rooms, tea rooms and supper rooms. On the other hand, in smaller towns a single large room attached to the best inn might serve for the occasional assembly for the local landed gentry . By the 1900s, people became more accepting of women entering public places, and new venues for entertainment arose, such as public dance halls and nightclubs. Also to some extent they were supplanted by

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192-685: The musical management undertaken by Samuel Arnold who took over the ownership and management with the violinist Thomas Pinto which arrangement continued from 1769 to 1774. In 1758, under the direction of Trusler's son, the Gardens gave the English premiere of Pergolesi 's opera La serva padrona (in translation). Hook was appointed organist and composer to the Gardens in 1769 and held an annual festival there every summer. The gardens were also famous for their regular firework displays , organised from 1772 to 1774 by Signor Torre . The Rose Tavern

208-400: The site (1739–40), breakfasts were added to the schedule. Many of the foremost London musicians and composers including George Frideric Handel and James Hook performed works here, The original principal female singer was a Miss Faulkner and the orchestra was led by William Defesch . From 1763 to 1768 the Gardens were run by Thomas Lowe , who had been a singer at Vauxhall Gardens , with

224-405: Was a London pleasure garden sited in the grounds of the old manor house of Marylebone and frequented from the mid-17th century, when Marylebone was a village separated from London by fields and market gardens, to the third quarter of the 18th century. It was situated in the area which is now between Marylebone Road , Marylebone High Street , Weymouth Street , and Harley Street ; its site

240-537: Was developed as Beaumont Street and part of Devonshire Street . Originally consisting of two bowling greens adjoining the Rose of Normandy tavern on the east side of Marylebone High Street , its size was increased to about eight acres by acquisition of land from Marylebone Manor House , which had been converted into a hunting lodge by Henry VIII and was later used as a boarding school , eventually being demolished in 1791. The Marylebone Gardens, surrounded by

256-482: Was established in 1850, replacing an older public house known as The Green Man. Burgh House is located just off the western end of the street in New End Square. Gainsborough Gardens runs southwards from the street. Many of the buildings in the street are now Grade II listed generally dating from the early and late nineteenth century with some dating from the eighteenth. Notable former residents included

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