Royal Surrey Gardens
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Royal Surrey Gardens were pleasure gardens in Newington, Surrey, London in the Victorian period, slightly east of The Oval. The gardens occupied about 15 acres to the east side of Kennington Park Road
Surrey Music Hall ca. 1858
Charles Spurgeon preaching in a packed Surrey Music Hall in around 1858.
Surrey Gardens in 1850
Exeter Exchange
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The Exeter Exchange was a building on the north side of the Strand in London, with an arcade extending partway across the carriageway. It is most famous for the menagerie that occupied its upper floor
Royal Surrey Gardens
…The site was acquired in 1831 by impresario Edward Cross to be the location of his new Surrey Zoological Gardens, using animals from his menagerie at Exeter Exchange, in competition with the new London Zoo in Regent's Park. A large circular domed glass conservatory was built in the gardens, 300 feet (90 m) in…
Engraving of Exeter Exchange from 1826, viewed from the east, looking west down the Strand.
Edward Cross, 1838
The menagerie at Exeter 'Change, ca 1820