White Conduit House, London

White Conduit House first appeared in the late 17th century as a tea garden where city dwellers could escape to the grassy fields and relatively clean air of Islington. According to Oliver Goldsmith it was a site where the inhabitants of London often assembled to celebrate a feast of hot rolls and butter. For over a century from the 1750s to the 1850s the curved front of White Conduit House and its pleasure gardens hosted not just cricket matches played on White Conduit Fields to the north-west, but a wide range of entertainments of all kinds

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