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LETS SLOW DOWN ELECTRIC CAR CHARGING points are to be installed in the Moreton Triangle, following a An estimated 128 people have been killed and 2,256 seriously successful review of the local area. These are to be installed in the injured in speed-related collisions across the capital in the past 3 years. coming weeks and if popular, more could be installed across Pimlico. Westminster City Council want to cut speed limits to 20mph across the entire borough in an attempt to improve safety for pedestrians Pimlico attracts rough-sleepers, who are preyed on by drug dealers. and cyclists. Westminster is one of the safest, cleanest and greenest Few rough sleepers have any local connection but most are cities in the country, and the introduction of a Westminster-wide persuaded to come in and get help; a small core though is embedded. 20mph zone is an important part of this. This year the council has persuaded partners, including the Cathedral and businesses to enclose the Cathedral Piazza A consultation runs until December 10 and will determine whether colonnades to stop antisocial behaviour. every residential road in Westminster’s 8.9 square miles becomes 20mph. Police team have been working to arrest some of the higher-level dealers with a number of successes, and by closing down properties Roads outside 39 schools are already 20 mph. The council says it being used as drug crime bases. wants to “make Westminster a safer, healthier and cleaner environment for everyone ”. If you’re concerned about antisocial behaviour and serious criminality, then call 111 or 999 respectively. You can support local police by London Mayor Sadiq Khan, has announced that all Transport for logging issues you see on the Vincent Square police website. Your London roads within the congestion charge zone — much of it in reports help local police build evidence trails and bid for extra Westminster —would become 20 mph by next May. resources.
Westminster has declared a “climate emergency ” and vowed to TACHBROOK STREET MARKET GOES GREEN ensure the borough is “carbon neutral ” by 2040 to cut air pollution. Food traders at Tachbrook Street market are taking part in an innovative pilot scheme which aims to save the use of nearly 4,000 TRACK GRINDING HAS BEGUN single-use plastic containers. with TfL agreeing to slow down night tube trains to 30mph on the The council is working with start-up business CauliBox, offering Victoria Line, and reduce the tube noise. customers the chance to buy their lunch in a reusable lunchbox which is then returned, professionally cleaned and used again. If it is This has only happened because of the pressure put on TfL by residents, successful the scheme will be rolled out to all of Westminster’s markets. London Assembly Member, Tony Devenish and your local councillors. HELP THE HIDDEN NETWORK END ROUGH SLEEPING Following years of TfL ignoring Pimlico, hundreds of residents have IN WESTMINSTER signed a petition demanding they meet with residents and take their Many of us are unsure of what to do when we see someone concerns about tube noise seriously. sleeping on the streets and for some, giving money directly seems to be the only solution.
A hidden network of dedicated professionals and volunteers is working around the clock to end rough sleeping in Westminster. They provide services such as counselling, befriending and addiction recovery, & they help with securing long-term employment & accommodation.
The network's partners are Turning Point, The Connection at St Martin's, St Mungo's, The Passage, Look Ahead, West London Mission and Westminster City Council's specialised services. In August, Deputy Mayor Heidi Alexander met a delegation of local people and councillors in one of the worst affected flats in Pimlico Westminster spends more resource on the issue of rough sleeping and was confronted with the justifiable frustration of local people. than any other council in the UK, but more still needs to be done. If Following the meeting two important concessions were won. First, you are concerned about someone sleeping rough please alert TfL agreed to re-grind the entire length of the track between Pimlico StreetLink using their app, or via the streetlink.org.uk. Your alert will and Victoria. The second was an agreement to slow the speed of the help local outreach teams try to connect with those you are night tube trains to 30mph. worried about.
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Follow us on Twitter: @CalmerClinics westminster.gov.uk/dont-be-idle Follow us on Facebook: http.//www.facebook.com/calmerclinicsLondon ALL CHANGE AT ST. JAMES PARK STATION 55 BROADWAY The famous art-deco former headquarters for London Transport, was designed by Charles Holden and built between 1927 and 1929 55 Broadway has been sold on a long leasehold agreement. The as a new headquarters for the Underground Electric Railways newly formed Integrity International Group, backed by property and Company of London (UERL), the forerunner of London Underground. hotel developer, Tony Matharu, has taken a 150 year lease. In the 1920s it was considered radical for a company to occupy its own premises rather than to rent accommodation. Adams, Holden Matharu brothers, as a family own the majority of Grange Hotels, and Pearson, the architects were commissioned by the Group although following a long family argument, they sold the four largest of the 13 hotels earlier this year for nearly £1 billion. Tony The District Railway constructed London's second underground Matharu has now set up a new company to invest again in line in the late 1860s under Westminster's streets between St property, with 55 Broadway his first purchase. James's Park and the then recently constructed Victoria Street. Both the new line and St James's Park station opened in 1868, 55 Broadway was built in 1929 and was London’s first skyscraper, and 30 years later the railway company transferred its offices from and noted for its cruciform design to let light into the office space, Victoria Street to new premises over the station. As the District and for Jacob Epstein’s sculptures on the outside. Railway Company and its successors expanded their control over public transport operations, the offices were rebuilt and extended. By the late 1920s, the Board of what had become the Underground Group and wanted all its staff in one new purpose-built block on the site.
The building is supported by 700 concrete piles sunk below basement level. 19 massive load-bearing steel girders span the railway, and special insulation was used to reduce vibration from the trains. Above ground, the building was constructed around a steel girder skeleton and faced with 2,200 cubic metres of high quality Portland stone.
Faced with Portland stone and covering a site with an irregular footprint, the upper office floors of the building are on a cruciform plan, stepping back towards the central clock tower at the top. The cruciform design afforded the optimum level of natural light to the offices. Previously the ground floor was also given over to London Transport offices, including a travel information centre, cash office and a library. The whole building straddles St. James's Park tube TfL has been looking to vacate the building for some years and the station, the east and west wings being immediately above the railway sale comes after TfL’s agent, Knight Frank put the property on the tunnel. It was the tallest steel-framed office building in London. Use market as an entire unit in May 2019 for a reported £110 million. was made of Norwegian granite for the plinth facings and black Belgian The transaction also includes the later built annexes at 100 Petty marble for the column capitals at low level. In addition there was France and Wing Over Station. extensive use of decorative bronze features throughout the building.
The leasehold sale includes the ground floor retail units, but not the Halfway along the north and east facades are a matched pair of ticket hall and other operational property. There will be no material sculptures, Day and Night by Jacob Epstein. The modernism and impact upon the operation of London Underground at St James’s graphic nakedness of these sculptures created public outrage on Park Stn. TfL won’t move its remaining office staff out for up to a year. their unveiling. In the end, Epstein agreed to remove 1.5 inches from the penis of the smaller figure on Day. In 2015, Westminster Council approved plans to convert the building into flats, but the sale was delayed & the application expired in 2018. On the 10th floor was a dining room for the chairman and senior It’s not been officially revealed yet whether the new owner is executives. At this level there are also four roof gardens. looking at turning it into flats, or a hotel. It is a listed building and heavily protected from a heritage perspective, so don’t expect The building was directly hit during the Blitz in 1941. It has been radical changes to this art-deco icon of London. extensively refurbished, most notably the ground floor alterations of the late-1980s by Manser and Partners. These created a shopping The sale of the long lease is part of TfL’s aim to cut its arcade at ground level. This work was done to a high standard accommodation costs by £110 million by 2022. using much of the original material and design features.
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EPICURE AND COUTURE EATON SQUARE CONCERTS Do ladies still lunch? With the growing international band of As readers of this magazine will know, Friends of Music has millionaires and their women what do they support other than presented concerts in St Peter’s Eaton Square for over 12 years. dubious works of art? What of those ladies of the recent past The concerts have contributed to the cultural life of Belgravia and who were known as XRays and wore couture in wonderful the surrounding areas. Audiences have grown in size and restaurants to show their clothes, their jewels and either a new enthusiasm, and the reputation of St Peter’s as an attractive venue and wealthy spouse or an attractive "toy boy ". with wonderful acoustics and a warm and friendly atmosphere is now well established. The haunts for this running the gamut were wonderful places with great chefs and superb food offerings. Alas the ladies who lunched However, proceeds of sales of tickets to classical music concerts do did not partake, they considered their figures and nibbled on a not begin to cover the cost of producing those concerts. The shortfall leaf or two and sipped mineral water. at Friends of Music has throughout its existence has been covered What was interesting was this was the beginning of the era of waste. by generous donations from sponsors and supporters. These Clothing that was barely worn and food that was not consumed. include public bodies, commercial entities, grants and donations by Huge amounts of materials and labour to achieve something so institutions and individuals. Without their support concerts could not temporary and quickly to be discarded. And only a knowing and have been presented. dedicated band could afford both.The dishes were Despite the success of our spring 2019 season, the financial results classic and their ingredients fell far short of expectations. This has resulted in the Board reluctantly familiar. The costumes were deciding that they should no longer continue with the concerts and becoming and the designers that Friends of Music should close. The current environment does recognized without identification, not provide a basis for sustaining Eaton Square Concerts. their cut and styling were suf- ficient to be recognized by the Friends of Music are planning to give one last concert on 21st cognescenti. November 2019, which will be a celebration of the years of pleasure which Eaton Square Concerts have given to so many. The Those ladies who lunched concert will be performed by the Kirkman Quartet. have been replaced by the denisons of the red carpets. Celebratory Concert 21st November 2019 Their figures are now toned to the like of circus performers. Dining KIRKMAN QUARTET: St Peter's Prize Winners 2019 now is of strange substitutes for food, energy bars and the like or PROGRAMME: small but costly plates in the new emporia for dining. Places that Frank Bridge: Novelleten for String Quartet come and go with the rapidity of jet aircraft. Each week another esoteric Haydn: String Quartet Op.76, No.1 offering only Google can identify. As a senior citizen, I am likely Purcell: Chacony in G minor (arr. Britten) Debussy: String Quartet to be aware of my fellow diners and I find they are young for the The concert will be at St Peter's Church, 119 Eaton Sq, SW1 most part, rarely it would seem older than 40. They are from the class who can afford expensive but often inadequate dining and seem to be satisfied as long as the location is top of the trend list.
What do this generation dine on when not in restaurants? Judging from the trash they scatter outside their dwellings, mainly pizza (see the empty boxes) other delivered items and ready meals. And I wonder, is it at all satisfying as a substitute for a proper meal? These thoughts are the prelude to my reversing all this extravagance. I live alone and dine out perhaps twice monthly. I start days with There are two types of tickets available: a simple breakfast, a substantial lunch and prepare an appealing Concert + 2 course dinner with wine and canapes in a relaxed dinner. Each day I follow this routine. At least once during the setting: £35 OR Concert only: £18/ £12 (concessions) week I have one or more guests either at lunch or dinner time. For a single person and a cat my food bills are likely higher than TICKETS: www.eatonsquareconcerts.org.uk average. I maintain a larder stocked with the basics required for Concert & dinner ticket holders benefit from semi-reserved seating, my cooking. I can spend £10. for the requirements of what I will a complementary cushion and programme . The dinner is sponsored by need to add to what is on hand for this week of solo dining with a Grosvenor. The members of the Kirkman Quartet will also attend. one time single guest. If you would like to try for the same..... Concert & dinner tickets must be purchased by Friday 15th November [email protected]
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Reading your article on Wilfred Brambell reminded me that he was a very regular customer at my restaurant Grumbles in Pimlico. Quite often Wilfred would pick .up the bill for everyone in the restaurant.Towards the end when he was getting a bit sad he couldn't afford to do it any more so he just stopped coming. I can't remember which years he came but I started Grumbles in 1964 and it is still thriving and full of memories. Jeremy Friend
Further making just so much nonsense is that Jeremy Corbyn LETTERS TO THE EDITOR stands as much chance of becoming our next Prime Minister as Having read Mr. Zetter's article on British politics, it occurred to me does Jo Swinson. as a non-member of any party it might be worth enlarging this on a little. Harry Bourne
Currently, the Brexit Party is enjoying popularity evidently based narrow flag-waving nationalistic populism. In turn, this seemingly rests on A FLOWER ARRANGER Davy D’Agostino, 42, was replenishing floral displays at Yotam a "Good-old-days " nostalgia. In the event of another Scottish Ottolenghi's Belgravia restaurant in Motcomb Street when he slipped up referendum being possible will the Brexit Party be equally thrilled a flight of stairs while carrying a heavy goldfish bowl-sized vase. about Scotland also "taking back their courts, commerce, etc " on Scotland leaving the UK? What will the same party make of a It smashed and glass shards sliced through the flesh and tendons of Mr situation whereby the Catholic/Nationalistic element becomes D’Agostino’s wrist, leaving him badly wounded on the narrow staircase. dominant in Northern Ireland and possibly votes to sever ties with He was rushed to hospital for surgery after the incident in August 2014. the UK, will Brexiteers be equally enthusiastic? The former barman initially blamed defective stairs at the restaurant-deli The Liberal Democrats are charged with being neither Liberal any for the fall, suing Ottolenghi Ltd. However, he withdrew the case and longer and not democratic because they oppose the Brexit vote. If instead claimed compensation from his former boss, florist Caroline their critics are really so exercised about democracy, a quick look Farthing, and her company Farthing Flowers Ltd. Ms Farthing hired him at how it is that around 90,000 members of a single party can elect to accompany her to clients’ premises to replenish flower displays. the leader of the British Government for a population of about 65 million? The more so given that we have now had two such contests Judge Christopher Lethem ruled in favour of Mr D’Agostino, finding he without seeking a General Election. Curious isn't it that the same had been told to carry the vase up and down stairs to be emptied, party is now accusing opposition parties of being anti-democratic cleaned and filled with six litres of water, which was an “inherently they are saying they want elections but not choosing to do so right now. dangerous ” task. Mr D’Agostino had received about 45 minutes of training in lifting and carrying, flower arranging and other parts of the job. Those other parties are picking not to do so at a time that is convenient for them not for the Conservatives, after all this is precisely what Ms Farthing told the court that “not in a million years ” would she have the Conservatives did ( & does anyone recall the acidic Johnson told her employee to carry the heavy vase up and down the stairs, remarks re. same situation when office passed from Blair to Brown?). It arguing Mr D’Agostino was to blame as he should have used a watering might be wondered quite why the deem Labour to be such a threat can to fill the vase. The evidence was dismissed by the judge. to them. When the past of Boris Johnson is raised, his fellow Cabinet members become curiously reticent an/or absent-minded. Ms Farthing and her company were found liable for the injury, adjourning Another response is along the lines of this is all years in the past. the case to a later date when the amount in damages will be decided. It is estimated that Mr D’Agostino could receive up to £100,000 for Looming large here is Labour when led by messrs. Attlee, Blair and physical and psychological injuries. Corbyn. The charge of Communism is not new when used of DEAR RESIDENT, Labour, as it was used by Winston Churchill of the Attlee I am an experienced solicitor and run a boutique law firm in the local Government. The interviewee noted just above also referred to Tony area, with offices on Buckingham Palace Road. My team specialises Blair in terms as a so-called seeker of truth and does so without a in real estate and litigation, including:- hint or irony or recognition of his leader and the questions about • Property litigation, such as boundary disputes and other neighbourly his relationship to truth(s). Yet these interviewees may be remarkably ....matters; forgetful about their own their but can recall that of Labour in fantastic • Residential leasehold, including lease extensions and collective detail. Criticism of Corbyn's Labour is largely that past and its links ....enfranchisements; with perceived terrorist links. This plainly overlooks the negotia- • Debt recovery services, working for landlords, RTM companies and tions of Thatcher's Gov. and the IRA. Should perhaps forget this "as it ....managing agents; was years ago ". • Commercial litigation, covering a whole range of business and If the Conservative Party was interested is such matters, they would ....contractual disputes. well do to look closely at the antecedents of the DUP on the We are specialist, robust, client-focused lawyers providing cost-effective grounds of this party propping up the the present UK Government legal advice. 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DON’T LET THE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER DEMOLISH TRUMP TRIUM PH ANT? OUR HOMES! There i s a y ear to go befo re the next Presi dential electi ons, but We are the residents of Cundy Street and Walden House and we Donald Trum p ha s been in contin uo us ca mpaign mode for yea rs. need your help! Indeed, he f iled his re-ele ction cam paign with the F eder al El ectio n Commission o n the ve ry day he too k office.
This time around, as the incumbent, Trump will have no problem
raising funds. When he ran against Hilary Clinton, she outspent him
by $700m to $400m. Normally in the United States the candidate
with the most money wins. That is because there is no limit on the
amount of money that can be spent on radio and TV advertising, and ve ry little co nstra int on h ow har d-hitting a ttack ads ca n b e.
Trump trium ph ed in 2016 pa rtly becaus e he was a we ll-k nown TV perso nality, but also bec aus e of his highly e ffectiv e slogan of ‘Mak e America Great Agai n’. He als o used mass rall ies a nd t wit ter to byp ass the mainstream media, and to compensate for his lack of budgetary firepower. The property group Grosvenor, owned by the Duke of Westminster, The selection of Hilary Clinton as the Democrat Party candidate also wants to demolish our homes. This will destroy our community helped Trump. Being married to former President Bill Clinton firmly and uproot us from our homes. marked her down as the establishment candidate, and her years as
The Duke of Westminster owns more land than the Queen. He is Secretary of State meant that she
the richest landlord in the UK with an estimated wealth of £9 billion, brought a lot of baggage with her.
which at the age of 28 makes him the richest person under 30 in
the world. He does not need to do this to us. This time around there is no stand-out
candidate for the Democrats. The We are a community that have been living in this area for over 40 original field of 20 plus has been years. Young families who have children that attend the local whittled down, but none of the candidates church school, elderly residents that should not be worried about real ly sca re the Republ icans . The losing their homes but rather be enjoying their retirement, single firebra n d Se nator Ber nie Sa nders parents, and families that have been living here for generations. has probably been ruled out b y his
We are a community, we live amongst friends and family and now recent heart procedure, whilst Joe face the possibility of having our community fragmented and destroyed. Biden – nicknamed ‘Creepy Joe’ by Trump after his hair sniffing exploits – may well have been knocked out of the race by his son’s Walden House is owned by Grosvenor, but historically has been leased busin ess a ctivities. to Westminster Council for council housing provision. Grosvenor Which leaves Elizabeth Warren, the academic and senior Senator are now cancelling the lease and plan to demolish the building. for Massachusetts since 2013. She has been dubbed ‘Pocahontas’
by Trump, in reference to her efforts to leverage her extremely The Cundy Street flats are a mixture of affordable and market rent tenuous connection to the Cherokee nation. She is nevertheless a accommodation next to Walden House. Many of the residents are elderly and have lived in the area their whole lives. These too will very smart operator, a highly experienced politician, and a good
be knocked down. campaigner. The question will be whether the Democrats want to
put another woman up against the macho Trump. We are facing homelessness and the break up of our community. We will not be able to afford similar housing in the area. The most likely person to defeat the incumbent President remains Trump himself. The corruption scandal that has damaged Joe Biden There is nothing wrong with these beautiful buildings - Grosvenor has also damaged Trump, because of his clumsy efforts to bully just want to make more money. This is simply about putting profit Ukraine in to providing information on Hunter Biden. This affair before people. This is valuable land, and we are seen as getting in could lead to impeachment proceedings – but not a successful the way of building high-rise luxury investment flats. impeachment. But the odds are that Trump will triumph under his re-election slogan ‘Keep America Great ’, unless he chooses to We call on Grosvenor and Westminster City Council to cancel the commit political suicide by twitter. plans to demolish Cundy Street Flats and Walden House. Lionel Zetter is a writer and political consultant [email protected]
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MAJOR WALTER CLOPTON WINGFIELD MVO five and ten guineas. In his version the game was played on an was born on 16 October 1833 in Ruabon, Denbighshire. He was hour-glass shaped court and the net was higher (4 feet 8 inches). of an English family traceable back to before the Norman The service had to be made from a diamond-shaped box at one conquest. Walter was brought up by his uncle and great uncle. end only and the service had to bounce beyond the service line He was educated at Rossall School, and in 1851 entered the instead of in front of Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned a it. He adopted the Cornet in the 1st Dragoon Guards and served in India. In 1858 Rackets-based Wingfield became a captain and in 1860 he took part in the system of scoring campaign in China and was present at the capture of Peking. He where games returned to England in 1861 and retired from the Dragoon Guards consisted of 15 a year later. points (called 'aces'). In order to During the decade he was based at his family estate, Rhysnant, differentiate his Llandrinio, Montgomeryshire, before moving into London in 1867. game, he named it He was a Justice of the Peace for the county and served in the Sphairistikè (which Montgomeryshire Yeomanry, joining as Lieutenant in 1864, was poor Greek appointed adjutant of the regiment in 1868, and promoted Major using a feminine in 1874. adjective meaning "pertaining to a ball In 1870 he was appointed to the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen game" without an at Arms, giving him some employment at the courts of Queen appropriate noun.) Victoria and her son Edward VII. He was made MVO in 1902, retiring from the Corps in 1909. Lawn tennis was becoming an In the late 1860s Wingfield was experimenting with a lawn important adjunct to cricket at the Marylebone Cricket Club and version of tennis. Vulcanised rubber balls offered an opportunity was played at Lord's Cricket Ground. In 1875 John Moyer to develop from the indoor game of real tennis and there were Heathcote instigated a meeting at the MCC to establish a many who had the leisure time to pursue the sport and who universal set of rules and Wingfield was invited to participate. owned croquet lawns that could be adapted for it. The precise Wingfield's hourglass court and scoring method were adopted date that Wingfield brought it to the public is uncertain. Lord and Wingfield considered his sport was now entrusted to the Lansdowne claimed that in 1869 Major Wingfield gave a MCC. During this time he suffered personal tragedies including demonstration of the game to him the developing mental illness of his wife and the death of his in the garden of his Berkeley three young sons and he lost all interest in the game. In 1877 the Square house, although in All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club launched the that year Wingfield was Wimbledon Championship and prior to this, in cooperation with not a major. Another the MCC representatives, developed a new set of rules that attribution was to a excluded some of Wingfield's introductions. Wingfield authored party held at two tennis works: The Book of the Game (1873) and The Major's Nantclwyd Hall in Game of Lawn Tennis (1874). Denbighshire, although Wingfield became vice-president of "The Universal Cookery and that party actually took Food Association". He founded a culinary society called "Le place in December. Nor Cordon Rouge" which was intended to further the development of was Wingfield the only the science of cookery. He created a new type of bicycle which exponent. At the same time, he called the "The Butterfly" and developed a form of bicycling Harry Gem and Augurio Perera were riding in unison by several riders to the tunes of martial music. demonstrating their game of Pelota in Leamington Spa. On 22 November 1902 Edward VII made Wingfield a member of Wingfield patented a New and Improved Court for Playing the the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) for "extraordinary, important and Ancient Game of Tennis and began marketing his game in the personal services to the Sovereign and the Royal family." and for spring of 1874 selling boxed sets that included rubber balls 32 years of faithful service. imported from Germany as well as a net, poles, court markers, rackets and an instruction manual. The sets were available from Wingfield lived at 112 Belgrave Road, for a time and died aged Wingfield's agent, French and Co. in Pimlico and cost between 78 at 33 St Georges Square.
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WESTMINSTER ROYAL AQUARIUM & SUMMER & WINTER Towards the north-west corner of the building is a large reading GARDEN room, with English and foreign newspapers, magazines, and other was one of the most fascinating entertainment venues in current literature. It is also proposed to collect a complete library of late-Victorian London. Visitors to other Aquariums liked to have books for reference, to provide convenience for letter writing and other amusements as well as observing the fish so the directors materials for the delectation of chess players. There is a telegraph were determined to have a botanical display and there would be a office for the despatch and reception of messages – and furnished, Summer and Winter garden. and within a division bell of the House of Commons. The Fine Art Exhibition was to be one of the features of the Aquarium. Music The original idea was to utilise the vacant space on the north side would be an important attraction with Mr. Arthur Sullivan as of Tothill Street by erecting a vast building for public instruction and conductor; and a little Theatre is also included in the building. entertainment was the idea of Wybrow Robertson. The architect was A. Bedborough, and Messrs. Lucas as contractors. The front The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, were secured as patrons of the was to be divided into compartments by columns, thus avoiding institution Following the opening by The Duke, it was discovered that monotony, and the bays are ornamented with groups of sculpture, the building was still in a very unfinished state The tanks contained neither water nor fishes. The two-guinea season ticket holders would feel swindled. The Duke of Edinburgh felt humiliated.
On the inaugural day, Sullivan conducted the orchestra, amplified by the bands of the Scots Fusilier Guards and the Coldstream Guards, in an all-British programme. More cultured weekly concerts would take place on Thursday afternoons. But the concerts, hampered by the cavernous acoustic, were not a success.
Concerts continued at the Aquarium into the 1880s and engaging such eminent singers as Mary Davies, Agnes Larkcom, Edward Lloyd and Barton McGuckin. A Javanese orchestra appeared in 1882, whilst in 1885 the Viennese Ladies Orchestra performed. By the 1890s, the Aquarium was acquiring a risqué reputation, with unaccompanied ladies promenading through the hall in search of male companionship. Emily Turner, a visitor from Montreal, worked adding greatly to the artistic effect. The principal entrances were to .as a salesgirl at the be on Tothill Street. The great hall, which is 340 feet in length by .Aquarium between 160 feet wide. This fine promenade is covered with a roof of glass .October 1891 and January and iron, the hall being surrounded by palms and exotic trees and .1892. She met a Major shrubs, the whole having the general aspect of a vast conservatory .Hamilton there, who filled with splendid sculpture. Between these artificial groves .bought her supper and fountains will play, and on the opposite side of the entrance is the .took her to entertainments grand orchestra, capable of accommodating 400 performers, with .at the Alhambra Theatre, a large organ. Around the hall are the tanks for the marine and .promising to set her up in fresh water creatures. To supply the 13 tanks lie hid under the floor .rooms in Lambeth. The of the promenade 9 great reservoirs of salt and fresh water. These .major disappeared after are built of brickwork on a four-feet bed of concrete, and will hold .providing her with 'gelatin 700,000 gallons of water. .capsules' for a cough. The pills made her ill, and she A licence was granted and on 26th November 1875 the Lord Mayor . stopped taking them. The . was given a private viewing of the soon-to-be-opened building, . leftover pills were passed followed by dinner at the Westminster Palace Hotel where he was to Scotland Yard, and she was traced by Inspector Jarvis of the able to discuss the enterprise with Lord Londesborough, W.H. Metropolitan police, who identified the missing major as the serial Smith, Henry Labouchere, Bruce Phillips and Arthur Sullivan. killer, Thomas Neill Cream. The pills were eventually analysed and found to contain only quinine. Turner refused to identify Cream for fear of having to appear at the trial - and have her own respectability questioned.
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