The world famous artist, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, met his famous muse, Fanny Cornforth, while dancing at the Cremorne pavilion. She threw peanuts at him as he danced. Below is my prophetic post on this famous amusement park.
“Let us go to Cremorne,” he proposed. “There are illuminations, trees, crowds and music – an excellent place in which to have a serious conversation.
Cremorne, I must tell you, is a pleasure resort with a lake and beautiful gardens, and is immensely popular. This establishment is situated exactly opposite its rival, Vauxhall, on the other side of the river. The company there is very mixed: students and shop girls, soldiers and civilians, dissipated young bloods, paterfamilias with their better halves, schoolboys and children’s nurses; Cremorne welcomes them all. It is not an edifying place, but, as I have said before, Londoners leave their prudery at home.
Cremorne, like Vauxhall and other such…
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