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English: The Monster Tea Gardens, 1820 Identifier: oldnewlondonnarr05thor (find matches) 'In the Regency, when Belgrave Square was a ground for hanging out clothes, all the space between Westminster and Vauxhall Bridge was known as 'Tothill Fields,' or 'The Downs.' It was a dreary tract of stunted, dusty, trodden grass, beloved by bull-baiters, badger-drawers, and dog-fighters. Beyond this Campus Martins of prize-fighting days loomed a garden region of cabbage-beds, stagnant ditches fringed with pollard withes. There was then no Penitentiary at Millbank, no Vauxhall Bridge, but a haunted house half-way to Chelsea, and a halfpenny hatch, that led through a cabbage-plot to a tavern known by the agreeable name of ' The Monster.' Beyond this came an embankment called the Willow Walk (a convenient place for quiet murder) ; and at one end of this lived that eminent public character, Mr. William Aberfield, generally known to the sporting peers, thieves, and dog-fanciers of the Regency as ' Slender Billy.' Mr. Grantley Berkeley once had the honour of making this gentleman's acquaintance, and visited his house to see the great Spanish monkey ' Mukako ' (' Muchacho ') fight Tom Cribb's dogs, and cut their throats one after the other — apparently, at least — for the 'gentleman' I who really bled the dogs and the peers was Mr. Cribb himself, who had alncet hidden in his hand, but which, under the pretence of rendering the bitten and bruised dogs help, he contrived, in a frank and friendly way to open the jugular vein. ...
So late as 1763, Buckingham House enjoyed an uninterrupted prospect south and west to the river, there being only a few scattered cottages and the "Stag" Brewery between it and the Thames. Lying as it did at the distance of only a short walk from London, and on the way to rural Chelsea, this locality was always a great place for taverns and tea-gardens. The "Monster" Tavern, at one period an inn of popular resort, at the corner of St. George's Row and Buckingham Palace Road, and for many years the starting point of the " Monster" line of omnibuses, is probably a corruption, perhaps an intentional one, of the " Monastery." Mr. Larwood writes thus, in his " History of Sign-boards : " — "Robert de Heyle, in 1368, leased the whole of the Manor of Chelsea to the Abbot and Monastery or Convent of Westminster for the term of his own life, for which they were to pay him the sum of £20 a year, to provide him every day with two white loaves, two flagons of convent ale, and once a year a robe of esquire's silk. At this period, or shortly after, the sign of the ' Monastery' may have been set up, to be handed down from generation to generation, until the meaning and proper pronunciation were alike forgotten, and it became the ' Monster.' , This tavern," he adds, " I believe, is the only one with such a sign." |
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